ICAR to facilitate exchange of students

Indian Council for Agricultural Research has proposed to facilitate the exchange of about 100 undergraduate students in agriculture for exposure-cum-study visits abroad, Dr K Ramasamy, Vice-Chancellor, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University today said.
Similarly about 500 under graduate agriculture students will be encouraged for exchange visits within India, which are aimed to provide better exposure and broaden the knowledge base of agriculture studies, Ramasamy said.
He was addressing a two-day National Symposium on 'Recent advances on Molecular Biology,' organised in commemoration of the Silver Jubilee celebrations of the Centre for Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology in the University.
The University Incubation Centre also proposed to introduce exchange student entrepreneurs in agriculture, he said.

Dr P Lakshmanaperumalsamy, Registrar, Karpagam University here, said agricultural scientists have great challenge to increase the food production and to continuously feed the growing population.
Crop breeding through biotechnology means offered ample opportunities to increase the productivity by employing modern techniques, as agriculture production was growing at the rate of 1.82 per cent, he said.