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Ion Exchange Enviro Farms Ltd. (IEEFL) is
a professionally managed company, headed by an eminent board of directors
and a well qualified and experienced executive management team.
| Board
of Directors |
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G.
Shankar Ranganathan - Chairman
An ardent environmentalist, Ranganathan is the founder Chairman of
Ion Exchange (India) Ltd. The CEO since inception in 1964 until 2003,
he has over four decades' experience in environment and water management,
and is currently the non-Executive Chairman of Ion Exchange (India)
Limited. He holds a Masters in Science (Wood Technology) |
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the University of Michigan, USA. He has written extensively on the
environment, rural community development and intermediate technology,
and has presented papers at national and international fora. |
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Rajesh
Sharma - Director
The Vice Chairman & Managing Director of Ion Exchange (India) Ltd., Sharma has over
thirty-six years of experience in water treatment. He is instrumental
in sourcing technology and partnerships with leading specialist companies,
as well as developing business relations with leading EPC contracting
companies. He has presented papers at many national level conferences. |
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V Keshav - Director
Keshav is a Chemical Engineer, with a rich & varied experience
of over 35 years in the Chemical Industry. He has been with Ion
Exchange (India) Ltd. for over 21 years, currently as Senior Vice President
- R & D, Corporate Quality & Systems. |
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at all our farms for better monitoring and control to improve productivity
and farm self sustainability. Periodic system audits at all farms
have also been initiated. |
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Abhiram Seth
Earlier with Hindustan Levers' sales and marketing division, from 1982-93,
Seth managed his own business as an entrepreneur. He later joined Pepsico
India in 1993 where he is currently the Executive Director- Export &
Corporate Affairs as well as spearheads the agro-operations.
Dr. B. B. Jadhav
Currently a Professor and Head of the Department of Agriculture and Botany,
at the Konkan Rishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli, Maharashtra, Dr. Jadhav has vast
research, extension and teaching experience spanning over 28 years. He is credited
with being the first in the world to perfect the 'clove grafting technology'
, has authored a popular book on homeopathy, and guided many students
for their master and doctorate degrees. He holds a Doctorate in Plant
Physiology from the Indian Agricultural Institute, New Delhi.
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Bankers
- Exim Bank
- Bank of India
- State Bank of India
Auditors
- GMJ & Co.
Chartered Accountants
Advocates and Solicitors
| Project Management |
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| Ion Enviro brings to bear its highly qualified
and technically competent teams of professionals and specialists -
graduate and post graduate horticulturists, project managers, hydro-geologists
and legal experts on every project. Their collective experience of
over three decades is reinforced by training support from experts
in India, US and Israel. |
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The Enviro Farms are managed by a team of horticulturists,
and headed by a farm manager who oversees the farms in a locality. For
every fifty acres of farm, the company has an experienced farm executive/supervisor
to supervise the horticultural activities. Unskilled labourers are hired
on a contract/daily wage basis.
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Land is developed using the latest techniques in
land usage, water harvesting and conservation, horticulture, post-harvesting
and distribution. In keeping with our environment-friendly practices,
our Enviro Farms use the best international practices in bio-intensive
organic farming, while employing the most modern water management
techniques. |
| Water Management |
| Every Enviro Farms project site is
selected after a thorough evaluation of its water potential. Water
management techniques are incorporated under the guidance of in-house
experts. |
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Focal thrust involves:
- Extensive use of drip irrigation for water resource
optimisation
- Rainwater harvesting and water conservation techniques
to harvest surface and sub-surface flow
- Use of sub-surface water by construction of underground
structures
- Simultaneous utilisation of surface and sub-surface
water resources
- Water resource exploration through open wells and
bore wells
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Under consideration:
- Adoption of artificial recharge techniques like
rainfall infiltration through bore wells and hydro fracturing
to re-establish and sustain water tables
- Root zone monitoring technique, to understand water
requirements of plants by monitoring the excess water discarded.
This will conserve water resources by supplying plants with their
exact water requirements
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| Watershed
Development |
| Our participatory watershed project for the village
Vihule Kond in the district of Raigad, Maharashtra entails technical
consultancy from Ion Exchange India; awareness building, funding and
monitoring by an NGO, and involvement of the villagers who contribute
labour. Rainwater harvesting ponds, bunds, trenches and gully plugs
are constructed to benefit over 1100 villagers. |
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