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KAU bags ICAR award

By Our Staff Reporter

THRISSUR, JULY 31. The Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) has been chosen for the prestigious `Sardar Patel Outstanding Institution Award' instituted by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).

According to a communication received by the KAU Vice-Chancellor, K.V. Peter, at the university headquarters here today from the ICAR Assistant Director General, R.C. Maheswari, the award would be presented to the university at a function to be held in New Delhi on October 19.

The citation of the award disclosed that among the 34 State Agricultural Universities (SAUs) in India, the KAU secured the first position in the all-India examinations held in agriculture and allied subjects for the junior and senior research fellowships conducted by the ICAR in 2002 and 2003.

The KAU also stood first in the national level Agricultural University Youth Festival in which 12 SAUs participated, implying its eminence in co-curricular activities too, the citation said.

Pat for college

It said that the Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Biology of the KAU's College of Horticulture was awarded the Biotech Product and Process Development and Commercialisation Award for 2003.

The citation recalled that agriculture in the State was confronted with several problems such as low productivity of crops and low returns and profitability, topographic peculiarities, high rainfall intensities and accelerated soil erosion.

``Although the challenges are daunting, especially in view of the abundant bio-physical resources, physiographic heterogeneity, changing social fabric and the mounting environmental consideration, the academic and research programmes of the KAU had been designed to address the problems in the agricultural sector and the dilemmas of the 21st century signified by globalisation, liberalisation and international competition,'' it said.

``The KAU has been striving to fulfil its commitment by reorienting and restructuring its programmes. In the bachelor's level education, professionalism has been fortified with entrepreneurship; and at the post-graduate level training is being imparted in emerging areas integrating relevant disciplines,'' the citation said.

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