Time to update agri skills, says Anna Univ VC

[dhilipkumar]

Time to update agri skills, says Anna Univ VC

Chennai: India may have made tremendous progress in education, economy and industry, but the recurrent problems in agriculture still need attention, said Anna University vice-chancellor P Mannar Jawahar on Tuesday. The time for combining traditional knowledge with technology and research had come. "There is a need to research and improve production processes, optimise water supply and opt for a diversified crop pattern, and make farmers aware of global warming and its impact on agriculture, irrigation and food processes," he added.

    "Global warming is in fact a global warning since it changes insidiously everyday, and has far-reaching consequences for those in coastal areas, and on agriculture as well," said Mayor M Subramanian, delivering the keynote address at Greenics '09, the first national-level technical symposium conducted by the Society of Agricultural and Irrigation Engineering of the university's civil engineering department. "It is a healthy trend that students are returning to core streams such as civil engineering and agriculture, and moving away from IT, he said.