B.B. Thombare is the Chairman and M.D. of the Natural Sugar Factory. He has created benchmarks through green initiatives taken at the factory. He started an organic fertiliser factory which produced more than 25 metric tons of organic fertiliser from factory waste. In drought situations, B.B. Thombare implemented a technique of reusing 70% of water from sugar fields for sugar production, which saved huge amounts of water as well as resulted in the decrease of water pollution.