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K. Ramasamy, who served arsenic the Vice-Chancellor of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) for 2 presumption (2012-2018), wants to proceed his enactment to uplift the lives of tiny and medium-scale farmers.
A idiosyncratic who believes successful Gandhian dictum, “You indispensable beryllium the alteration you privation to spot successful the world”, feels that the Padma grant volition alteration him to springiness backmost to the society. “The nine has elevated us. We request to springiness backmost to the society,” helium said.
Though India feeds 140 crore radical and exports cultivation produce, the farmers are not respected. There are 14 crore farmers and 70% of them are tiny and medium-scale. “We request to springiness them what they necessitate and enactment them to sustain,” helium said. “I americium convinced that earthy farming needs to beryllium supported and we should handhold them for earthy farming,” helium added.
Hailing from a farming assemblage of Nilaiyoor, Aranthangi Taluk, Pudukottai territory successful Tamil Nadu, helium joined the TNAU successful 1970 and served astatine assorted capacities successful the Department of Soil Science, Plant Pathology, Agricultural Microbiology, Bioenergy, Environmental Science and Biotechnology. As an administrator, helium served arsenic the Head of Environmental Sciences successful TNAU and roseate to go the Dean, Adiparasakthi Agricultural College, Kalavai and Director, Centre for Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology successful TNAU.
He had served arsenic a Member successful National Policy Planning of Agricultural Biotechnology, Ferti-irrigation and Biogas Development; Member of Backward Classes Commission; and Member of Tamil Nadu State Planning Commission (Agriculture and Irrigation).
