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driving force at the Merino group goes much beyond the
profit motive. The group lays great emphasis on social
responsibility. As a concerned corporate citizen, the
Group has made significant contributions in selected
thrust areas, in keeping with the national priorities
of education and health care.
Schools
for the underprivileged have been set up and are being
run by the group, while advanced medical equipment have
been supplied to hospitals run by the Ramakrishna
Mission and other charitable institutions, which are
involved in caring for the weaker sections of the society.
In
agriculture, the Group is involved in sugarcane plantation,
where latest cultivation techniques are used. It has
also entered into agro-forestry and is planting Poplar
and Willow trees on a massive scale. Biotechnology,
especially cloning, has revolutionized
farming all over the world. To bring the benefit of
this technology to Indian farmers, the Group has set
up a laboratory for cloning plantlets at Hapur, Uttar
Pradesh
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