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In a bid to boost probe successful the tract of cultivation sciences, University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS) Dharwad has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) Mumbai.
The collaboration volition absorption connected investigating and adapting harvest varieties and accumulation technologies developed by BARC to conscionable the needs of farmers successful Karnataka and beyond.
The technologies volition beryllium evaluated and refined by UAS Dharwad scientists to conscionable section conditions earlier being extended to the farming community, a merchandise from the assemblage said.
The MoU was signed betwixt the 2 institutions astatine BARC successful Mumbai connected Tuesday.
Speaking connected the occasion, Vice-Chancellor of UAS Dharwad P.L. Patil, who is connected a two-day sojourn to BARC, said: “As edaphic and climatic conditions are much oregon little akin betwixt confederate Maharashtra and North Karnataka, scientists of the 2 institutes volition articulation hands with the cutting-edge technologies of genomics to make precocious yielding harvest varieties which conscionable nutritional and prime standards.”
Prof. Patil besides said that that precocious technologies specified arsenic nutrient irradiation tin play a captious relation successful improving nutrient safety, enhancing support beingness and expanding export opportunities.
These benefits are apt to lend substantially to the socioeconomic upliftment of farmers successful the region, helium said.
The Vice-Chancellor was accompanied by Director of Research B.D. Biradar and prof and caput of Genetics and Plant Breeding Department of the assemblage B.R. Patil during the MoU signing ceremony.
