The rapid population growth creates new demands on water resources for all processes viz food production, municipal supply, industrial water use, power generation, navigation and recreation. The workshop briefed on technologies for measuring the volumetric use of water in Agriculture and the major interventions for revamping the irrigation system.

The workshop explored processing and value addition in agriculture, utilizing waste from horticultural crop processing, and opportunities in red meat, dairy, poultry, and fish products in Tamil Nadu. Key outcomes included post-harvest management, establishing agribusiness incubator cells at the Taluk level Read More

Algae are a very large and diverse group of simple, typically autotrophic organisms, ranging from unicellular to multicellular forms, and most are photosynthetic. Algae is a potential fuel source that can produce biodiesel, methane, and hydrogen and also serves as an excellent food supplement, as most of the algae have essential complete proteins with essential amino acids and a high amount of simple and complex carbohydrates besides having an extensive fatty acid profile, including Omega 3 and Omega 6, which is very good for health. Read More

The fisheries sector is one of the most important food production sectors in the state, contributing to the livelihood and food security of a large section of the economically underprivileged population. In recent years, it has assumed greater significance, and its contribution to the State and the National economy in terms of livelihood and nutritional security, rural employment generation, and foreign exchange earnings has been enormous. The workshop recommends adopting an inland water body fish culture system Read More

Millets are scientifically proven to be ahead of rice and wheat in terms of nutrition content.  The workshop recommends awareness of the health benefits of millets, one millet meal per day and oats in the dietary schedule for diabetic/cardiac patients, promotion of ready-to-cook millets through PDS/cooperative outlets, production-oriented schemes of SHGs, setting up of block-level small-scale processing units of production new generation millet food products and development through research.

The workshop recommends millet agripreneurship to create rural employment opportunities, establishment of ornamental fisheries park on PPP mode that facilitates the infrastructure for entrepreneur to venture into fisheries business, promotion of ornamental fish exports, organizing trainings for ornamental marine fisheries, skill development to farmers for making agriculture to attain the industrial status, popularizing ICT enabled concept like e-mandi, e-valanmai and mobile based agro advisories, compendium of bankable Read More

The workshop focuses on transforming Hitech horticulture into a profitable venture. Recommendations include converting fallow lands into horticultural farms through PPP, implementing a pedigree/scion policy, ensuring timely availability of quality inputs, promoting high-tech banana varieties, adopting ultrahigh-density planting, diversifying crops, replicating successful banana cultivation models, organizing supply chain management workshops, and forming horticultural crop clusters. Capacity building for farmers to become Read More

The workshop focuses on upscaling the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) through key components such as transplanting young seedlings (preferably 14-15 years old), square planting of single seedlings with 25 cm x 25 cm spacing, adopting mechanical weeding, implementing alternate drying and wetting, and reducing nursery area and seed rate. Adequate training on SRI planting methods is recommended for women laborers and potential Self-Help Groups (SHGs). Encouraging local artisans and blacksmiths to produce Read More

The workshop suggests the formulation of a New Buffalo Policy to improve and promote the buffalo population, encourage subsidy schemes for cattle and fodder, formation of new women SHGs to promote and develop the buffalo population, undertake intensive research on increasing the buffalo population/quality semen production/breed adaptability, and creation of awareness of the economic advantage of buffalo rearing among the farming community.

Millets are gaining popularity globally due to their nutritional benefits. They are gluten-free, rich in nutrients, and have a lower glycemic index compared to rice and wheat. As a result, millets are being explored as a potential solution to food security and nutrition challenges. Millets are superior to rice and wheat in many nutritional parameters. All these benefits and more were addressed in this workshop.

The workshop aims to enhance synergy among crop enterprises by uniting stakeholders from agriculture and allied sectors. Its goal is to identify opportunities for increasing economic yield per unit area and time through crop and allied enterprise intensification. To boost overall productivity, the workshop suggests adopting improved cropping systems based on rainfall and soil moisture availability, selecting suitable grain crops and tree species year-round, and utilizing surplus fodder and crop residue during the rainy season, preserving Read More

The livestock sector is directly linked to the livelihoods of more than 70% of rural households and provides gainful employment for the rural poor and youth. This workshop highlighted working out the socio-economic impact of important veterinary development schemes, developing projects to help sex selection in animals and elaborated on strategies and plans for bridging the demand-supply gap in green fodder production which could suitably address the issues in fodder marketing. Additionally, the workshop discussed the development of schemes Read More

The State Planning Commission conducted the workshop to initiate the second green revolution in the state, to raise farmers’ economic standing through wider use of frontier technology for improving crops with full farmer participation. The workshop makes recommendations for a system of rice intensification, rainfed agriculture, promotion of millets, market linkage, R&D, crop insurance, and community borewells.