When the G20 Delegation Came to Pratapgarh Farms

By Pratapgarh Farms & Resorts LLP 5 October 2026 8 min read

The G20 delegation and the Pratapgarh Farms team gathered on and around a tractor trolley, most of them wearing Haryanvi pagdis, beside the farm's G20 board

Pratapgarh Farms is a 35-acre farm tourism destination near Delhi NCR, and it was the place Haryana chose when the G20 came to the state. On 4 March 2023 the delegation of the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group left its meeting in Delhi NCR and spent the day on the farm. The group’s first meeting on Indian soil had run from 1 to 3 March, and the fourth day was given to the delegation as a day out. Haryana’s Chief Minister, Manohar Lal Khattar, had come to the farm in January to inspect the preparations himself. This is what the delegates did between one o’clock and half past four that afternoon.

Haryana Welcomed Them With A Pagdi And A Tilak

The buses came in around one o’clock, and the welcome started at the gate. Every delegate had a Haryanvi pagdi tied on, a tilak placed on the forehead, and a line of women in ghaghri and odhni singing the group in. Haryana Tourism’s welcome banner stood over the entrance with the flags of the visiting nations beneath it, and each guest signed the farm’s visitor register on the way through — the ordinary first minute of a day at the farm, run for an extraordinary set of guests.

A delegate in a navy jacket with folded hands being welcomed at the farm gate by two men in Haryanvi pagdis, with marigolds along the wall — The welcome at the gate, 4 March 2023.

Women in bright Haryanvi dress with a brass kalash, singing and clapping to welcome the G20 delegation inside the farm — The delegation is sung in through the farm gateway.

A delegate in a red bandhani pagdi signing the visitor register at a desk under a Haryana Tourism welcome banner — Signing in, as every guest does.

At The Vedic Gau Gram, They Fed The Cows By Hand

The first stop was the Vedic Gau Gram, the farm’s own cow village. The delegates fed the desi cows and the Sahiwal cows themselves, holding out gur and roti, and went along the pen rail to meet the Murrah buffaloes — the breed this part of Haryana is known for. The gaushala runs as part of the farm’s daily work, and the milk from these cows is what the farm’s own ghee is made from. The Murrah buffaloes of Haryana are the section of the day guests still ask about most.

A delegate in a red bandhani pagdi holding out a piece of roti to a brown cow at the Pratapgarh Vedic Gaushala, with a host in a white pagdi beside her — Feeding the cows at the Vedic Gau Gram.

Two delegates leaning over an orange rail to stroke a black Murrah buffalo at the Pratapgarh Vedic Gaugram — Meeting the Murrah buffaloes.

A host in a white pagdi hand-feeding a black Murrah buffalo while a cameraman films, with three more Murrahs standing at the rail behind — The Murrahs, shown to the delegation.

The Bilona, The Chacch And The Farm’s Own Ghee

Then they made butter. The bilona is a wooden churn worked with a rope, and the delegates took turns at it with both hands on the cord, the way it has been done in this belt for centuries. Making Ghee & Butter from Milk is on the farm’s own list of what a guest can do here, so the group did it the slow way — curd to makhan, makhan to ghee — and the Chacch that came off it was poured into kulhads and handed round.

A delegate and a host seated together at a wooden bilona churn, both pulling the rope, with terracotta pots stacked on the wall behind — Working the bilona, the rope-driven wooden churn.

Two delegates drinking buttermilk from terracotta kulhads and smiling, with other delegates in suits behind them — Chacch, served in kulhads.

A host presenting trays of round ghee and jaggery products to delegates in colourful pagdis at the Vedic Gaugram — Ghee from the farm's own cows.

Before the buses left, the farm sent its own ghee home with the guests — a farm product from the same cows they had just fed, made the way they had just watched it made.

The Millet Stall, In The International Year Of Millets

2023 was the International Year of Millets, declared by the United Nations General Assembly on India’s proposal, and the farm had laid out a stall for the occasion: a long table of terracotta bowls with bajra, jau, moong, chana, groundnut and more of the coarse grains this belt has always grown. The delegates tasted their way down the table and asked what each grain was good for. Millets are ordinary food here and always have been — Makee Bajre ki roti with desi Ghee and Bajre Ki Khichri with Ghee Bura are everyday dishes at Pratapgarh Farms, and the stall was showing the delegation the same grain the kitchen cooks with.

Delegates in pagdis looking at terracotta bowls of bajra, moong, chana and other millets ranged along a table at the farm — The millet stall, in the International Year of Millets.

The Crafts Of The Village Yard

A yard of craftsmen had been set up for the day, and the delegation spread out across it. Two men were making a charpai and a moodha from scratch, and a delegate sat down beside them and took a turn at weaving the charpai. Alongside that: Charkha Weaving and Handloom Weaving with a chadar growing on the loom, Pagdhi Tying, Peedha Making, Pottery and the stone Chakki. The farm had put out its old implements for the visit — the ukhhal and musal, the peedhi, the khaat, and brass toekni, glass, thali and katori beside the old daman, kurta, ghaghri and juti. The brass and the clothing held the delegates longest; they picked the vessels up, turned them over, and told the craftsmen the handicrafts were the environmentally sound choice. The Puppet Show, the Magic Show and the Been-Dholki-Nagada Dance ran through the afternoon.

Camel Carts, Bullock Carts, Archery And A Turn At The Plough

The rides and the fields were open all afternoon. The delegates took the Camel Ride and the Camel Cart Ride, queued for the Bullock Cart Ride and the Tractor Ride, and tried their hand at Archery and at Pounding Grain — bajra in a wooden mortar, which is harder work than it looks. A few went out to Plough and to draw water at the panaghat well, and the nursery of medicinal plants drew a small crowd of its own. Lunch was served in the middle of it: a pure Haryanvi thali, cooked exactly as it is for every other guest on the farm. The kitchen’s Dopahar Ka Shahi Khanna, which runs 13:30–15:30, is Missi and Tandoori Roti with Sarson Ka Saag, Rajma, Kadhi, Jeera Rice and Paneer Shahi, with jaggery and chatni, and Suji ka Halwa to finish.

A delegate standing with seven farm hosts in orange pagdis and white kurtas, all with folded hands, in front of three camels decorated with coloured tassels — The camels, with the farm's own team.

What They Said Before They Left

The delegation’s own words are the part worth keeping. “Haryana is very good, thank you Haryana,” they told the reporters. They said the cleanliness and the natural beauty of the farm were what struck them most, took videos of the craftsmen at work and said they would suggest the crafts back home, and one of them picked up a moodha and told its maker it was an amazing chair. Dainik Jagran’s headline for the day called what the delegation saw a mini India in Jhajjar.

Pradeep Singh Phogat, who runs the farm, said at the time: “Our team has been working around the clock to ensure that everything is perfect for their arrival… We are truly proud to represent India on the global stage in this way.”

What The Visit Says About Pratapgarh Farms

Pratapgarh Farms has been doing this since 2008, when the Department of Tourism, Government of Haryana approved it — one of the first farm destinations in the country, and now one the state has put in front of a G20 delegation. It is 35 acres of gated farm tourism, the biggest and best in Delhi NCR, running 150+ activities across 15 categories with all of them included in the day, near Delhi NCR on highway-connected roads the whole way and about 55 km from Delhi and Gurgaon. Pratapgarh Farms in Jhajjar holds 4.8 across 30,255 Google reviews, and in 2023 the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, named it a Best Tourism Village of India.

The ground the delegates walked — the craft yard, the gaushala, the millet stall, the fields — is the ground your family walks on a day picnic near Delhi NCR, and the one a team walks on a corporate team outing near Delhi NCR. The long version is in one day family outing near Delhi NCR, and the Pratapgarh Farms reviews are what guests have written since.

In The News

The visit was covered by the national and regional press. These are the reports from the day and from the run-up to it:

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