Agri education to be made more challenging and competitive: VC

Tamil Nadu Agicultural University is in the process of revamping education by putting the farmer in the forefront, its vice-chancellor K Ramasamy said here today.
The varsity would first look to change the curriculum on par with Indian Agricltural Research Institute, get equipped and expose the students to global competition, he told reporters here.
Stating that TNAU was all set to make agriculture education more challenging and competitive, he said this would start off from the current year, as improving the quality of education would be our main focus to retain and improve our position in ranking of institutes across the country.

Students would have option to study at any agricultural college any time during the programme, to further foster collaboration in agricultural education, research and outreach programme with National and International Institutes, he said.
They could even opt to study abroad and post graduate students could opt to move to any of the institutions across India. However this would be done with World Bank assistance.
"We hope that this arrangement will benefit a good number of students. We intend to train as many as 500 students in three years," he said.
The VC said TNAU had submitted a proposal to the state government to start agri polytechnics in each district so that students after studying technology can become entrepreneurs, thus helping farmers.