IBT students prepared a huge hydroponics unit of 48 trays as per farmers’ order.

In Nagajschool picnic school had hired a ST busin this journey bus driver Shri. Siddheshwar Hake At-post Junoni, Tal-Sangola,Dist-Solapur he came to know about IBT program & hydroponics unit made by the students. He found the hydroponics as a interesting useful technology. He has a chicken hatchery of 1000 capacity at his home. He was also suffering from high cost fodder for the chicken i.e. Rs. 28/kg. So he was in search of low cost but good quality fodder.

After knowing the features of hydroponic unit and quality of fodder being made using the same. He gave an order of 48 trays hydroponic unit to the schools. As per this order IBT students of 9^th& 10^th std has made a huge unit of size 13ft*4.3ft*6 ft in engineering section as a project. They have used UPVC pipe, 0.5 Hp motor, foggers, drip pipe and timer in this unit.  This order has been successfully delivered to the farmer i.e. bus driver and total cost of this unit was Rs. 16,400. This was the cost and school had not charged anything extra since school had received a 1ft biggest order and this was going to be a marketing point for the school.