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Award for weed control centre of TNAU

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For contribution on weed survey

RECOGNITION: C. Chinnusamy, Principal Investigator (left), receiving the national award for the All India Co-ordinated Research Programme on Weed Control of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University from Narendra Singh, Minister for Agriculture, Government of Bihar (right), in Patna.

COIMBATORE: The All India Co-ordinated Research Programme on Weed Control, functioning in the Department of Agronomy, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, has received the national best centre award for 2007-08.

According to a release, the centre, which was set up in 1982, has been selected for the award by the National Research Centre for Weed Science, Jabalpur, a constituent organisation of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research, New Delhi.

The award is in recognition of the centre’s contribution on weed survey and surveillance on the invasive noxious weeds in different agro-ecosystems of Tamil Nadu. It has also developed and disseminated integrated weed management technologies for sugarcane, maize, rice, groundnut, oilseed crops, aquatic weed water hyacinth and other problematic weeds.

Principal Investigator and Professor of Agronomy C. Chinnusamy received the award from Narendra Singh, Minister for Agriculture, Government of Bihar, in Patna recently. His team consists of N.K. Prabhakaran, Professor, Agronomy, S. Meena, Associate Professor, Soil Science, and M. Sivakumar and S. Padma Rani, Assistant Professors, Agricultural Economics.

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