Coimbatore: Tamil Nadu Ravi Governor on Monday took part in the 42nd annual connection from the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) and urged students and researchers to prepare for uncertain consequences of climate change.
He stated that changing monsoon patterns, rising sea levels, deadly heat waves, intense storms, and flash floods pose a big threat to the agricultural sector.
The governor at the event provided a degree at 2,602 graduates and research scholars from TNAU and affiliated colleges.
Overcoming students, he said, “Even though our country today is a surplus of food gardens, the appropriate benefits of it have not gone to our farmers as the majority of them are subsistence and small.
There are paradoxical situations where dirty food production in this country is a surplus Most poor food producers.
“This has emerged because of the decades of distorted agricultural policies, which benefit some large farmers but do not help extraordinary majority, small and marginal.” He added, “informing that additional income due to the adoption of plant varieties of TNAU , technology management, and agricultural machinery by the Tamil Nadu agricultural community worth 10,433 crores per year.
“Trilochan Mohapatra, Secretary of the Agricultural Union Department and Education, said that only 40-45% of the agricultural area in Tamil Nadu was rainfed.” It is important to harvest rain, save and effectively use it through micro irrigation, “he added.