Farm & Agronomy
The Sikandrabad cluster
Sikandrabad, Bulandshahr district, western Uttar Pradesh, ~70 km from Delhi; sandy-loam soils; the cluster spans Bulandshahr, Hapur, Ghaziabad, Gautam Budh Nagar, Hathras and Aligarh; the largest English carrot cluster in India (~5,000 acres, ~100,000 MT a year).
517 · 1,250 · ~5,000517 contract farmers · 1,250 acres under Sunshine · ~5,000-acre cluster
Geography and soils
Sikandrabad, Bulandshahr district, western Uttar Pradesh, ~70 km from Delhi; sandy-loam soils.
The cluster spans Bulandshahr, Hapur, Ghaziabad, Gautam Budh Nagar, Hathras and Aligarh — the largest English carrot cluster in India (~5,000 acres, ~100,000 MT a year).
Ghaziabad
Hapur
Gautam Budh Nagar
BulandshahrSikandrabad
Aligarh
Hathras
MEDIA-FARM-08Sandy-loam soil profile: a spade cut or a hand holding the soil
Climate window
Harvest February–May; roots move to the cold store within hours of lifting [COPY TBC — D-11]. The growing calendar for the cluster [COPY TBC].
Harvest & cold storage