Coimbatore: Agricultural students and researchers must prepare the destructive consequences of climate change such as changing the monsoon pattern, rising sea level, deadly heataves, intense storms and flash floods, Tamil Governor Nadu RN Ravi said here.
All of this pose a serious threat of the agricultural sector, Ravi told students from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) during the 42nd annual meeting ceremony.
“Even though India is a surplus of foodgrain, the appropriate benefits of it have not reached our farmers, the majority of which are subsistence and small.
The situation of the paradox in which the production of gross food surplus, but most poor food producers have emerged because of the decades of distorted agricultural policies, which Despite the benefits of a small number of large farmers, it does not help extraordinary majority, “he said.
“I was told that additional income due to the adoption of TNAU plant varieties, management technology and agricultural machinery by the Tamil Nadu agricultural community was worth Rs 10,433 Crore per year,” Ravi said.
Poor research and agricultural education Trilochan Mohapatra emphasizes the need to popularize micro irrigation.
“Only 40-45% of the agricultural area in Tamil Nadu is rainfed.
It is important to harvest the rain, save and use effectively through micro irrigation.
TNAU has done a lot of effort to develop micro irrigation technology.
This institution must expand it further to enter More plants and cultivation systems, and increase the coverage of the state under micro irrigation from only four hectares, “he said.” Thanks to the government’s initiative to grow.
So far we have documented 75,000 farmers, whose income is increasing.
The Faculty of Institutions must document cases of cases Such with the help of students and encouraging other farmers to lead by sharing stories, “officially added undergraduate, 11,397 graduate and 3,504 doctoral graduates.