Coimbatore: A three-day networking workshop on “Balancing Climate, Bio-diversity and Food security–Towards a Global Alliance” is being conducted by the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) in association with Queen’s university, England & Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) from March 18 in Coimbatore. .
Coimbatore: A three-day networking workshop on “Balancing Climate, Bio-diversity and Food security–Towards a Global Alliance” is being conducted by the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) in association with Queen’s university, England & Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) from March 18 in Coimbatore. .
The workshop is being attended by 80 delegates belonging to Ireland, Bangladesh, England, Guyana, Brazil, District environmental engineers, scientists from the Indian Rice Research Institute, Central Leather Research Institute, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Salim Ali Centre of Ornithology, entrepreneurs from industries and scientists from TNAU are participating in the workshop.
The Vice Chancellor of TNAU, Dr. N Kumar inaugurated the workshop and stressed that food and nutritional security, impacts on biodiversity and climate are crucial interlinked platforms that need a strong network between countries and institutions. While expressing satisfaction over achievements in food grain production and increasing nutritional security by way of increased horticultural production, the Vice Chancellor insisted that the other two areas need more attention.
He added that TNAU has initiated studies on the physiological changes occurring in crop plants due to increase of temperature up to 4-5â—¦C. He recalled that technologies evolved by the Environmental Sciences Department of the University helped combat straw burning issues in Punjab and Haryana.
Professor K Ramasamy, the former Vice Chancellor of TNAU and eminent environmental scientist highlighted the transformation of India’s ancient pollution management wisdom into novel technologies. He added that with 40-75 liters of wastewater generated for every kilogram of industrial products, nano-filtration remains a viable technology for reuse of such water.
Dr. K Subramanian, Director of Research, TNAU was optimistic that such kind of network workshops can help solve the multiple environmental issues faced in Tamil Nadu. Dr. Deepak Kumaresan of Queen’s University, UK, highlighted the importance of the network workshop and emphasized that addressing such key environmental issues is necessary since migration of about 40 million is expected in the near future, due to these issues.
The workshop is being attended by 80 delegates belonging to Ireland, Bangladesh, England, Guyana, Brazil, District environmental engineers, scientists from the Indian Rice Research Institute, Central Leather Research Institute, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Salim Ali Centre of Ornithology, entrepreneurs from industries and scientists from TNAU are participating in the workshop.
The Vice Chancellor of TNAU, Dr. N Kumar inaugurated the workshop and stressed that food and nutritional security, impacts on biodiversity and climate are crucial interlinked platforms that need a strong network between countries and institutions. While expressing satisfaction over achievements in food grain production and increasing nutritional security by way of increased horticultural production, the Vice Chancellor insisted that the other two areas need more attention.
He added that TNAU has initiated studies on the physiological changes occurring in crop plants due to increase of temperature up to 4-5â—¦C. He recalled that technologies evolved by the Environmental Sciences Department of the University helped combat straw burning issues in Punjab and Haryana.
Professor K Ramasamy, the former Vice Chancellor of TNAU and eminent environmental scientist highlighted the transformation of India’s ancient pollution management wisdom into novel technologies. He added that with 40-75 liters of wastewater generated for every kilogram of industrial products, nano-filtration remains a viable technology for reuse of such water.
Dr. K Subramanian, Director of Research, TNAU was optimistic that such kind of network workshops can help solve the multiple environmental issues faced in Tamil Nadu. Dr. Deepak Kumaresan of Queen’s University, UK, highlighted the importance of the network workshop and emphasized that addressing such key environmental issues is necessary since migration of about 40 million is expected in the near future, due to these issues.