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N K Kurian
James Kurian is an ecologist, agriculturist and award-winning agricultural entrepreneur from Kerala, India. N K Kurian is the person who derived the concept of the agricultural theme park. He is the Managing Director of Mango Meadows Agricultural Pleasure Land Pvt Ltd, an agricultural theme park.

according to kurian ,agricultural theme parks are parks that are made within an agricultural area to adjust to an agricultural area mainly with an objective to give supplementary income to the farmer and to provide value addition for farm products.the main idea behind the agricultural theme park is to bring the buyer directly to the agricultural farm and to sell farm products directly to the buyer in a value added way without any intermediaries.

Early Life, Education & Family
Kurian was born in Kaipuzha, Kottayam on 2nd May 1971. He was the son of A T Kurian and Mariamma Kuriakose. He took his primary education from Govt. LPS Kallara in Kottayam, high school education from St. Thomas H S, Kallara and matriculated from St. George H S Kaipuzha. He completed his Pre-degree from Vidhya College, Kottayam and Diploma in Civil Engineering from S N Polytechnic College, Kottiyam.

Career
Kurian started his career as a site supervisor in various construction projects in Mumbai. At the age of 26, he left India for a job. He worked as a site engineer at Al Rukhiya & Al Mohsin Co. in Saudi Arabia as Production Manager in Thani Benson Co. Dubai, as Project Manager at Robust contracting LLC, Dubai, as General Manager at Robust Aluminium LLC, Dubai and as Managing Director at Bethlehem Aluminium & Glass LLC Dubai. After 13 years, he returned to India.

Concept of Agricultural Theme Park
As a farmer Kurian had to go through difficult situations where the traders and the market discriminated his efforts and his farm produce was undervalued and he had to suffer huge losses in farming. He learnt that he was not alone, the majority of farmers in India is not getting a decent living out of their farm income as the traders and intermediaries take all the profit and the farmers are left with no or minimum benefits. This made him think about a solution to fetch a reasonable price for the commodities produced by the farmers. He understood that