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C. Ramasamy TIRUCHI: Tamil Nadu Agricultural University would release in a year’s time the hybrid variety of Jatropha from the cruses of which 40 per cent extraction would be be possible, Vice-Chancellor C. Ramasamy said on Tuesday. The hybrid variety was currently under testing and management techniques were being evolved for increasing yield. With Rs.3 crore funding from Indian Council of Agricultural Research, the university was exploring methods to arrive at by products to add value to the jatropha crop, he said. A hybrid variety of sugar beet developed by the university was suited to tropical agro-climatic condition and was a potential source for ethanol provided sugar factories come forward to make additional investment for processing. The hybrid variety for sweet sorgam had also been identified, he said, explaining to media persons the initiatives taken by the university on the bio fuel front. The university had submitted for approval a project proposal to the Department of Biotechnology for developing salinity resistant paddy variety through transfer of genes from ragi that grew well in salinity. The university, he said, was in the process of demonstrating the efficacy of drip fertigation and chisel ploughing among farmers across the State on a total of 1,200 hectares to double the yield of crops such as banana and sugarcane, with the funding of the Central and State governments. For daily monitoring of weather and disseminating the data pertaining to rainfall, temperature and velocity of the wind for subsequent few days to farmers through field-level officers, the TNAU had undertaken a Central-Government funded project to establish Automatic Weather Stations at 224 locations across Tamil Nadu, the Vice-Chancellor said. To broad-base soil testing, an equal number of Agri Clinics would be promoted by the university and the State Department of Agriculture to prompt agricultural graduates to avail themselves of the benefit of 50 per cent subsidy scheme. Management inputs were being incorporated into the contents of B.Sc. Agriculture for entrepreneurship orientation. Students were also being initiated into field visits to agro industries, Dr. Ramasamy said. On the progress made in e-learning front, he said the university had created a repository of learning materials that could be accessed by students through intranet in wi fi environment. The university had also pioneered the concept of conducting online examination in the country. Dr. Ramasamy said that the tie-up of TNAU with the Cornwell University, New York, for introducing a dual-degree programme at Post-Graduate level reflected the top-ranking position of the university among the 44 agricultural universities in the country. More such tie-ups with universities in advanced countries were in the offing, he said.
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