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Centralised training facility for sugarcane farmers sought Ariyalur
For a cause
Staff Reporter “Central team should visit
Karaikal”
Focus group meet organised by the Sugarcane Breeding Institute at Correction
Pugalur in Karur district Risky ride
Develop positive approach: VC
Lorry driver robbed
Two youths arrested
TMMK plans to block trains at
four places
Demonstration
“Declare Karur a home textile
hub”
Indian Bank’s 10 rural
branches to help SHGs
Unpleasant sight
Now Tirupur turns to amla,
cocoa
IMA wants stern action
Indian Bank plans to set up 10
branches in rural areas
Sri Lanka repatriates 21
fishermen
Three more boats found
abandoned
DISCUSSIONS: Scientists from Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Development works on;
Coimbatore, and growers at a focus group meeting on developing a problems persist
website at Pugalur near Karur on Thursday. e-service centre inaugurated
Full aid sought for desalination
KARUR: Sugarcane growers in the region have called for a centralised plant
training facility that possessed all capacity for training farmers and help Centralised training facility for
transfer of technology from lab to land in seamless fashion. sugarcane farmers sought
Competition
The facility should help scientists further research programmes and they Arogya Ayurvedic Centre
could be supported by a corpus that derived the monetary strength from inaugurated
the contribution made by sugar mills in the State, farmers opined at a focus Inadequate strength, a setback
group meet organised by the Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore, for police
and the EID Parry Sugar Mills at Pugalur in Karur district on Thursday. Now, they are too cautious
Office to be shifted
The highlight of the discussions was an active interaction among the cane Employment Office forwards
growers, cane officers and scientists from the Institute who answered a list
volley of questions on a range of issues confronting the farmers. Jewellery seized from
showroom owner
C. Nagarajan, a farmer from Mahadanapuram in Karur district wanted a Man robbed
cane variety that had a shorter age, say, nine months. Plant breeding Spirited customers find an
specialist P. Govindaraju said that they were working on a variety that could outlet even at odd hours
be harvested in nine or 10 months but, he reminded the farmers, short ‘Declare coastal districts
calamity areas’
term varieties would have lesser sucrose content.
Sri Lanka repatriates 21
Progressive farmer Anbalagan of Nachalur and vermicompost specialist fishermen
Gopalakrishnan of Panikkampatti referred to the top and inter-node borer “Brown’s idea suffers from lack
of clarity”
diseases that were afflicting the crops in Kulithalai region of Karur district

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and Pettaivaithalai region of Tiruchi district. Entomologist J. Srikkanth Deep depression likely to
suggested that pheromone traps and such other measures could be of great intensify
use in such situations. State will emerge power-
surplus in three years:
Soil scientist P. Rakkiappan called upon the farmers to avoid burning of Industries Secretary
sheaths and leaves on the field as it would always be counter-productive. Nayudamma Award conferred
on Ramadorai for outstanding
N. Sethupathy of Nadayanur and Ponnusamy of Pugalur Cane Growers’ contribution to IT
Association wanted the mills in the State to take the lead in establishing a Paddy procurement norms in
specialised centre for imparting training to farmers on various Villupuram district
developments that come about in cane cultivation. State expresses inability to
share cost of new railway
Sugar mills could contribute to the sustenance and development of such a projects
centre by apportioning funds on a pro rata basis on the tonnage they crush Mid-day meals: CAG raps A.P.
or produce, the farmers said reflecting the views of others in the region. government
TRS fails to table resolution on
The absence of such a facility was costing the mills and the farmers dear, Telangana
they felt adding that the Institute could remind the governments on the Governor calls for collaborative
need and utility of having such a centre. effort to prevent coronary
diseases
President of Tamil Nadu Toddy Movement and progressive farmer Nallusamy Train skips scheduled stop,
of Arachalur in Erode district sought to know whether there was any passengers stranded
genetically modified sugarcane and the scientists replied that though
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research was under way the variety might not find its way outside the labs
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as certain regulations and specifications had to be met.
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Growers wanted a variety that withstood drought, disease attacks, short in Features:
age, had a good recovery rate and yielded at least 60 tonnes an acre. Magazine
Similarly, a section of the scientists and farmers felt that organic farming Literary Review
could be panacea to several of the ills plaguing cane cultivation. Metro Plus
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More sessions planned
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EID Parry Sugar Mills General Manager P. Nagarajan promised that the mill
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would conduct more interactive sessions involving stakeholders such as
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cane growers, mill executives and scientists for the overall development of
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Scientists, including B. Puthira Pratap (Agricultural Extension), K.
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Sivaraman (Agronomy), R. Balakrishnan (Statistics) and A. Ramesh Sundar
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(Plant Pathology), as also progressive farmers from Tiruchi, Karur, Erode and Quest
Namakkal districts participated.

Union Ministry of Science and Technology’s Department of Scientific and

Industrial Research was sponsoring the development of the website through
the Institute.

Scientist and Central Public Information Officer Vimal Kumar Varun of the
DSIR said that the project was being funded under the “Technical
Infrastructure Development Programme”.

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