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Farms and Farmers Institute rewarded by Jain Incid Krishi Sinchan Award

This year’s Jains Incid Krishi Sinchan Award has been allotted to Farms and Farmers Institute of Bihar. The organization is engaged in upliftment of small landholders, located in deferent seven villages of Bihar. The award presentation ceremony held recently at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi. Special Secretary of department of water resources, Mohankumar, Secretary of the department Dr. S K Sarkar and senior officer of Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd., H L Sharma presented an award. Read More

Jain Irrigation–R&D Biogas work published in International Journals

√ Research Paper: Solid and Liquid Wastes: Avenues of Collection and Disposal
Published in: International Research Journal of Environment Sciences ISSN 2319–1414 Vol. 2(3), 1–5, March (2013).
Abstract :
For high moisture and organic nutrients–rich Indian wastes, predictably with high methane potential, anaerobic digestion appears to be most suitable option, providing renewable biogas as a substitute for fossil fuels and organic manure as an equally important by–product for soil enrichment. Admittedly, the existing anaerobic technologies are suited to homogeneous wastes, while the same ones for processing heterogeneous solid urban wastes need to be modified by trial and error in the absence of alternative technologies. Read More

Standalone Results for the quarter/nine months ended 31st December 2012, Quarter3 and Nine Months FY 2013 Performance

Jain Irrigation, the largest micro irrigation Company in the country and the second largest globally, has announced standalone results for the quarter and nine months ended 31st December 2012.The net sales for the quarter were at Rs 750 Crores, a decline of 8.1% (against corresponding quarter net sales in FY 2012 of Rs. 816 Crores). Read More

Symposium on Water Security for sustained Agriculture

“An economically sound business model under the public-private partnership (PPP) mode will ensure water security thus paving way sustainable food security. Maharashtra government would fully back up this initiative,” said Dr. Sudhir Kumar Goel, Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Marketing, Government of Maharashtra.Read More

Forbes India Magazine presents ‘Good Company Award’ to Jain Irrigation

Forbes India presented its prestigious ‘Good Company Award’ to Jain Irrigation Ltd., highlighting the company’s fruitful contribution to the “have nots” of the society and in improving the lives of the small farmers, while maintaining its standing in the corporate world and leadership position in its industry.Read More

Jain Irrigation net-up 3 times in Standalone Results for the quarter ended 30th September 2012

Jain Irrigation, the largest Micro Irrigation Company in the country and the second largest globally, has announced better standalone results for the quarter ended 30th September 2012... Read More

Jain Irrigation Announces Fund Raising Plans

Jain Irrigation today announced plan for fund raising of approx. $200 Mn to deleverage and strengthen its balance sheet, to reduce interest cost and to balance its currency exposure with long term maturities. Read More

Jain Irrigation declares steady operating results for Q1 FY2013

Jain Irrigation has declared lower sales by 9.40 % due to planned reduction in Micro irrigation business as part of its effort to revamp its micro irrigation business model. These lower sales coupled with significant mark-to-market notional forex losses due to depreciating rupee has resulted in net loss of Rs.169 million. Read More

Jain Irrigation obtains Regulatory NOD for launch of a NBFC

Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd. (JISL), India’s largest and world’s second largest micro irrigation company has obtained regulatory approval from RBI to launch a NBFC

The new joint venture is incorporated in the name and style of “Sustainable Agro-commercial Finance Ltd.” to be commonly recognized by its acronym; SAFL (pronounced SAFAL). SAFL will be a non-deposit taking NBFC. Read More

JAIN Irrigation wins prestigious G20 Award

Award recognizes Jain Irrigation′s innovative, scalable and financially sustainable inclusive business model

Mumbai, 20 June 2012: Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd. (JISL), India’s largest and world’s second largest micro irrigation company has been declared a winner of the prestigious “G20 Challenge on Inclusive Business Innovation” award. Read More

Dispelling the myths of shared value

Despite its obvious benefits for both business and society, creating shared value is still not a mainstream business practice Shared

Creating shared value is about business addressing societys most pressing issues by acting as business, and not as charitable donors. This, we believe will drive future innovation and productivity growth in the global economy.Read More

JAIN Irrigation and TALIS Announce Global Strategic Cooperation

JAIN Irrigation Systems Ltd (Mumbai, India) and TALIS Management Holdings GMBH (Rodgau, Germany) today jointly announce a global strategic cooperation to bundle TALIS products as part of JAIN product offerings.Read More

JAIN, the Indian irrigation and agriculture giant, has signed an agreement with Kibbutz Naan to acquire the remaining 50% of the jointly owned Company NaanDanJain

The agreement was signed this morning in the presence of senior board members and executives of Jain, representatives of the Israeli Company and of the kibbutz. Read More

Jain Irrigation announces quarterly steady sales & higher net profits

Jalgaon Highlight of results - Consolidated sales crossed US$ 1 Billion during FY 11-12*, Fourth quarter Revenues up 1%, Twelve months revenues up by 14%, EBIDTA marginally lower by 60 basis points, EBIDTA up by 30 basis points, Fourth quarter Net profit increased by 59%, Twelve months Net Profit down by 9%. Read More

Mr. Anil Jain, MD, Jain Irrigation will be in Speaker role at G8 Food Security Symposium

Jalgaon Mr. Anil Jain MD, Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd. has been selected to participate in the G8 Symposium on “Beyond L’Aquila: Advancing Food Security at the G8 Summit.”. Read More

The President Dedicates Gandhi Teerth to Humanity

Jalgaon ( Reporter) Gandhiji was not merely a personality but a powerful ideological force which derived its inherent strength from Truth, Non-violence and other profound virtues the Hon′ble President Smt. Pratibha Patil opined today after dedicating Gandhi Teerth to Humanity. She exhorted the youth to tread Ganghiji′ s path and take India to greater heights of progress and modernity. The President, who hails from Jalgaon, was particularly happy that such a Gandhian research and study centre of international status had taken roots in her birth place, and expressed confidence that the initiative will put Jalgaon on the world map. Hon′ble Governor of Maharashtra, Dr. K. Shankarnarayanan, prominent educationist Shri Devisingh Shekhawat, Chairman of Gandhi Teerth Justice Chandrashekhar Dharmadhikari, its Founder and prominent industrialist Dr. Bhavarlal Jain, and its Trustee Shri D.R. Mehta were present on this occasion. Read More

Unified Action Plan Approved.

Unified Pvt. sector Govt. effort must for betterment of Agriculture : Bhavarlalji Jain

Jalgaon, Though the ultimate object of any business is to earn profit, the situation is not such that capitalism born out of it will remain the same. Our customer is farmer and it is necessary for us to understand his needs so that industry active in agricultural sector (Food Processing Industry) can prosper in the near future, said the Founder Chairman of Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd. Bhavarlalji Jain. He was speaking at the first session of the one–day international conference jointly organized by Jain Irrigation and Enterprise Solutions to Poverty (USA) on the subject of “ farmers progress through agriculture profession.Read More

One-day international agri-symposium Jalgaon

Jalgaon,- A unique one-day international symposium on “Building Shared Value in Agribusiness” will be organized by Jain Irrigation Systems Limited (JISL), India and Enterprise Solutions to Poverty (ESP), USA, here on February 12. Management experts Such as Dr. Nitin Nohria, Dean of Harvard Business School (HBS), Dr. Ray Goldberg, an HBS Emeritus and regarded as the father of agri-business programme at HBS and Dr. Kasturi Rangan, who teaches the popular Business at the Base of the Pyramid course at HBS, will deliver keynote addresses at the symposium. Read More

Standalone Results for the Third Quarter / Nine Months ended 31^st December 2011

Jalgaon,- Jain Irrigation, the largest micro irrigation Company in the country and the second largest globally, has announced standalone results for the quarter and nine months ended 31^stDecember 2011.The net sales for the quarter were at Rs.816 crores up 18% (against corresponding quarter net sales of Rs. 693 crores). Micro irrigation Systems (MIS) has shown a growth of 11% piping business grew by 27% PVC sheets Read More

No significant damage due to fire at Company′s stock yard

Jalgaon, Dec. 11 - Company situated in Bambhori, Jalgaon in state of Maharashtra. Emergency response measures were activated immediately. Efforts were supervised by top management including Chairman and executive directors as well as senior managers of the Company. Quick efforts ensured that lives were not at risk at any point of time and fire was contained within 3 acre area in a factory campus of approx. 120 acres. Intense fire was controlled with unabated efforts of fireman and Company associates who worked tirelessly to remove remaining pipes in surrounding area so as to contain the fire in limited space. Fire came under control around midnight. It took more than 16 fire tenders as well as other efforts such as use of sand, to control the fire. Fire tenders came from 30 KM radius from different towns as well as industries.Read More

Karnataka signs MoUs for agri-biz projects worth Rs 37,250 Cr

Bangalore, Dec. 1 : On the first day of the ‘Bounteous Karnataka global agri-business and food processing summit-2011, the State has managed to attract investments worth Rs 77,250 crore, including a mega-deal from the banking behemoth State Bank of India. The two-day summit aims to attract investments in the States agri-business and food processing sectors. Read More

Bhavarlal Jain performs ground cutting for Jain 8.5 MW Solar Electricity Generation Project

Jain Irrigation Jalgaon, Nov 11 : Jain Green Energy today entered the field of electricity generation on 11.11.11 at 11 minutes and 11 seconds by inaugurating the first registered project in solar photo-voltaic electricity generation project under the Jawaharlal Nehru Solar Mission scheme. This project is being viewed as the leading project in the Indian solar energy field which took shape due to the foresight of Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd (JISL) Read More