Dr. M K Kalarani, Director, Crop Management, TNAU highlighted the need for weed management under the changing climate and control of invasive alien weeds.
Coimbatore: The All India Coordinated Research Project on Weed Management unit of the Department of Agronomy, Directorate of Crop Management, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore in coordination with the ICAR-Directorate of Weed Research, Jabalpur organised the 29th Annual Review Meet of the All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) on 'Weed Management' on May 25 at TNAU.
In the inaugural function of the Annual Review Meet, Dr. V Geethalakshmi, the Vice-Chancellor of TNAU, Dr. J S Mishra, the Director of DWR, Jabalpur, Dr. M Raveendran, Director of Research, TNAU, Dr. M K Kalarani, Director, Crop Management, TNAU, the former Directors of DWR, Dr. N T Yaduraju and Dr. A N Rao, veteran weed management scientists of ICAR and TNAU, Principal Investigators and scientists of various AICRP-Weed Management centres from different parts of the country, scientists and students of TNAU participated.
Dr. J S Mishra, Director, DWR, Jabalpur welcomed the gathering. Dr. M K Kalarani, Director, Crop Management, TNAU in her felicitation address highlighted the need for weed management under the changing climate and control of invasive alien weeds. She also insisted on the need to develop weed management technologies and non-chemical herbicides suitable for organic farming.
Dr. M Raveendran, Director of Research, TNAU indicated the challenges arising due to abiotic and biotic factors in crop production and iterated the need for documentation of weed surveillance and monitoring once every decade. He emphasized that basic and interdisciplinary research to develop herbicide tolerance in rainfed crops like pulses, oilseeds, rice etc is much needed.
Advanced novel scientific technologies like the application of Artificial Intelligence, alternate renewable energy sources such as solar energy, thermal waves, laser waves for effective weed control are also highlighted.
Dr. V Geethalakshmi, the Vice-Chancellor of TNAU in her Chief Guest address accentuated the impact of climate change on the increased water stress to crops raised under weedy situations which in turn posed a great challenge toward food security. "Comprehensive research on Spatio-temporal and species shift in weed distribution over various locations has to be attempted.
The great scope of advanced tools like Image Analysers, robotics and machine learning technologies to control the weeds is much needed," stated V Geethalakshmi.
Eminent weed scientists were honoured and weed compendium, books and weed management mobile apps were released at the event. The Annual Review Meet ended with a vote of thanks by Dr. R P Dubey, Principal Scientist and In-charge, AICRP- WM, DWR, Jabalpur.
In the inaugural function of the Annual Review Meet, Dr. V Geethalakshmi, the Vice-Chancellor of TNAU, Dr. J S Mishra, the Director of DWR, Jabalpur, Dr. M Raveendran, Director of Research, TNAU, Dr. M K Kalarani, Director, Crop Management, TNAU, the former Directors of DWR, Dr. N T Yaduraju and Dr. A N Rao, veteran weed management scientists of ICAR and TNAU, Principal Investigators and scientists of various AICRP-Weed Management centres from different parts of the country, scientists and students of TNAU participated.
Dr. J S Mishra, Director, DWR, Jabalpur welcomed the gathering. Dr. M K Kalarani, Director, Crop Management, TNAU in her felicitation address highlighted the need for weed management under the changing climate and control of invasive alien weeds. She also insisted on the need to develop weed management technologies and non-chemical herbicides suitable for organic farming.
Dr. M Raveendran, Director of Research, TNAU indicated the challenges arising due to abiotic and biotic factors in crop production and iterated the need for documentation of weed surveillance and monitoring once every decade. He emphasized that basic and interdisciplinary research to develop herbicide tolerance in rainfed crops like pulses, oilseeds, rice etc is much needed.
Advanced novel scientific technologies like the application of Artificial Intelligence, alternate renewable energy sources such as solar energy, thermal waves, laser waves for effective weed control are also highlighted.
Dr. V Geethalakshmi, the Vice-Chancellor of TNAU in her Chief Guest address accentuated the impact of climate change on the increased water stress to crops raised under weedy situations which in turn posed a great challenge toward food security. "Comprehensive research on Spatio-temporal and species shift in weed distribution over various locations has to be attempted.
The great scope of advanced tools like Image Analysers, robotics and machine learning technologies to control the weeds is much needed," stated V Geethalakshmi.
Eminent weed scientists were honoured and weed compendium, books and weed management mobile apps were released at the event. The Annual Review Meet ended with a vote of thanks by Dr. R P Dubey, Principal Scientist and In-charge, AICRP- WM, DWR, Jabalpur.