May 12, 2018
Coimbatore : Seed Centre in Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) here has bagged the award for research excellence in seed technology.
The award carrying a citation was presented at the three-day 33rd Annual Group Meeting of the All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) on National Seed Projects (Crops), which concluded at Karaikal yesterday.
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All state agricultural universities and research institutes under Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) participated and the TNAU Seed Centre bagged the best performance award among the 24 centres, a TNAU statement said today.
The 13th annual review meeting of ICAR-seed projects was also held. TNAU Special Officer (Seeds) Dr P Selvaraju received the award from Puducherry Agriculture Minister R Kamalakannan in the presence of senior ICAR officials.