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| About Akola Tourism |
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Akola is one of the leading industrial as well as agricultural districts of Maharashtra. Akola city has a prominent industrial zone on the outskirts known as Akola MIDC Industrial Area. It also has the famed Agricultural University, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth
, which attracts students from all over for its Agricultural and
Industrial courses. The chief agricultural crops produced in the area
are cotton, soyabean, jowar, wheat, sunflower, and peanut. Akola
also has a rich historical, cultural, and political background. In
ancient times it constituted a very important province of the Vidharba
kingdom. It was later an important stronghold of the Marathas. However,
it was annexed by the British East India Company in 1803, in the Battle
of Adgaon. Several historical forts and monuments are reminiscent of
its glorious past under the Marathas.
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