Pravaranagar 1950: 44 Villages Built Asia's First Cooperative Factory India
44 Ahmednagar villages, 1 cooperative factory, all profits to farmers. Vitthalrao Vikhe Patil built Asia's first cooperative sugar mill at Pravaranagar in 1950.
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