Nagpur: A agricultural businessman from the village of Parner in Patoda Tehsil from Beed has become arguably the first to export the earthworm.
A six-ton ​​shipments were shipped to Oman lately.
Bed Regency in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra has been subject to a consecutive drought.
Dry mantra has caused Amarnath Andure – exporter – diversification into making organic fertilizer.
The habit of the paper handling department also left confused when it was first approached.
A search revealed that there were no earlier records of each export.
Finally, it gets into the category of live animals.
Sending worm containers is also needed permission from the State Livestock Service Office.
In the middle of the whole process, Andure Nature Agrotech, headquartered in Pune, appears for what can be said to be the first to have an insect exporter of life abroad.
The agreement has opened a number of new opportunities for him to say, Andure.
The order comes from an agricultural technology company in Oman in the Middle East, which has started a project on organic farming.
A search on the internet brings buyers to this Andure site, he said.
Andure does not reveal the company name for business reasons.
However, he shared the details of shipping with TOI.
A clip from an Arab newspaper along with him was also translated as the first import of earthworms to Oman, he said.
“It starts with an investigation of companies that have been taken by Vermicompost organic farming.
Land worms are the main ingredient.
Worms raised in bio-material waste, which finally turned into cascing – important input for organic farming, “Andure said.
“I have 15 acres of land and take agricultural aloe vera in 2015 as another road for continuous dry mantra in Beed.
Aloe vera plants easily turn on at those who are watered even after drying out due to lack of rain in a certain year.
Because it is an organic business, Vermicompost is needed.
I don’t imagine that one day I will end up getting an export order, “he said.
Orders are not very large and the benefits may be in the range around RS4 Lakh.
More than money, it is a landmark for the company.
The final calculation has not been carried out, he said.
Sending consignment is a challenge and the company finally spends substantially in the process.
Temperature must be maintained, in addition to other steps to ensure that worms remain alive.
Because it is the first type of case, permission takes time to add warehouse costs, Andure said.
“It takes a lot of documents to get clearance.
The key question is about the category where worms will fit on.
Finally, after routing occurs through the Department of Animal Husbandry, worms are classified as animals.
Applied animal quarantine rules.
This means that consignment certification is free disease needed, “said Govind Hande, Department of Agriculture Export Consultant in Pune, who helped Andure.
Andure now plans to go to Oman to provide knowledge.
Not fully vaccinated yet, travel can occur only in February.
Meanwhile, he had got a number of questions.