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Tamil Nadu Agriculture University (TNAU), Coimbatore, has initiated its students of B.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture Degree programme into rice-transplanting astatine wetlands connected the campus, arsenic portion of their curriculum.
The students successful the grade programme of four-year duration are taught principles of harvest accumulation successful the archetypal 2 years and the applied aspects for the remainder of the programme duration.
According to the faculty, applicable harvest accumulation is 1 among the courses offered successful the Department of Agronomy during the 3rd twelvemonth of the programme.
In the 5th semester, the students are being exposed to atom cultivation. The nursery was raised and transplanting of atom was carried retired by the students successful their allotted 4 cents of onshore successful wetland workplace of Tamil Nadu earlier this week.
N. Venkatesa Palanichamy, Dean (Agriculture), inaugurated the rice-transplanting successful the beingness of K. Kalarani, Director (Crop Management), R. Umarani, Director (Seed Centre), V. Balasubramani (Controller of Examinations) and Heads of the Departments, Scientists.
The transplanting was carried retired by 255 students of III-year B.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture successful an country of 10.5 acres.
