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The zone of institutional responsibility covers the southernmost districts of Tamil Nadu viz., Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi and Kanyakumari.
EDUCATION
- Upgrading teaching skills of faculty members through training programmes
- Use of digital aids, video cassettes and Internet facilities for academic programmes
- Organizing coaching classes and guest lectures for competitive examination in the field of agriculture and civil services.
- Skill development in students through Rural Agriculture Work Experience and Agro -industrial tie up programmes for solving problems in field and for self employment
- Imparting effective self learning process including skill oriented training through commercial agricultural courses.
RESEARCH
The research programmes are oriented to meet the needs of clientele of southern districts.
- Breeding for the development of rice varieties and rice fallow pulses suitable for Tambiraparani command area.
- Identifying & developing export oriented medicinal herbs.
- Developing vegetable varieties suitable to this tract.
- Producing quality hybrid seeds of major crops.
- Standardizing alternate planting techniques in rice and developing agro techniques.
- Maximizing yield of rice-fallow pulses.
- Identifying sustainable agro-forestry systems for wastelands of Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi Districts.
- Developing technologies for Palmyrah.
- Formulating IPM technologies for crops.
- Testing and demonstrating labour saving implements in rice cultivation
- Developing value added products from Palmyrah and horticultural crops.
EXTENSION
- Organising training and input sales through Agricultural Support Centre located at Tirunelveli
- Dissemination of information through zonal meetings, farmers' meetings, radio talks
and by publications.
- Intensive village adoption programs to demonstrate all the technologies in
major crops.
- Conducting on-farm trials on the evaluation of varieties and technologies.
- Organizing farmers' seminar on need based areas.
- Conducting farm school on AIR programmes on the latest topics relevant to the
farmers of southern districts.
- Producing foundation and certified seeds and supplying to farmers through
department of Agriculture.
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