Business and Economy
Farming is a main occupation in Arag. 75 percent people are farmer's. Arag is famous for its progressive farming and farmers. Best cultivated farms producing sugar cane, paan mala, jwari, turmeric etc. Entire crop of sugar cane is sold to the sugar factory like Mohanrao Shinde sahkari sakhar karkhana Ltd. Mohannagar, Arag, Vasantdada sahkari sakhar karkhana, Madhavnagar, Sangli etc. Arag is a leading grape and sugar cane producer town in Sangli.
Arag is also famous for "Pan" (Beetel Leaves), you can see acres of Panmala's (Pan Growing Fields) in and around Arag, it's like an Open greenhouse. These pans are sent across India, major to Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Mumbai, etc. Throughout India these are called as POONA PAN.
Arag is considered as the business centre in eastern part of MIRAJ, located just 6 km from Karnataka Border
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