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The Tamil Nadu authorities should instrumentality capable steps to fortify h2o absorption strategies to summation cultivation productivity and prolong farmers’ livelihoods, said G. Viswanathan, laminitis and chancellor, VIT.
Speaking astatine the valedictory of the eighth variation of Agri Expo 2026, which was organised by VIT School of Agricultural Innovations and Advanced Learning (VAIAL) here, Mr. Viswanathan said that with the constricted stock of nationalist h2o resources for agrarian State similar Tamil Nadu, h2o conservation remains cardinal successful addressing ways to summation cultivation productivity to conscionable increasing population. “The authorities should destruct middlemen successful the proviso concatenation of workplace nutrient wherever farmers already look harvest failures, mounting debts, and deficiency of remunerative prices,” helium said.
The Chancellor said that the State authorities should undertake restoration of astir 41,000 irrigation tanks including desilting and deepening these h2o bodies. It volition assistance to store excess rainwater during monsoon. “As Tamil Nadu gets lone astir 3 percent of the country’s full h2o availability, the State authorities should reconstruct tiny h2o bodies to store excess rainwater. Interlinking of rivers should besides beryllium pursued vigorously,” helium said.
Mr. Viswanathan said that contempt India having go the world’s fourth-largest system successful presumption of GDP, the existent maturation of the state depends connected higher per capita income, which is debased erstwhile compared to developed countries. For example, India’s per capita income stands astir 2,900 dollars and ranks 140th globally. In contrast, Japan’s per capita income is astir 12 times higher than India.
The expo featured 145 stalls displaying innovations, including caller banana varieties from National Research Centre connected Banana (NRCB), water-saving technologies, and a effect bagging instrumentality developed by VIT faculty.
On the occasion, awards were fixed to outstanding stalls successful government, private, and women’s self-help radical categories successful the beingness of K. Sundaravadivelu, Additional Director (Management), Tamil Nadu Department of Agriculture.
