Speakers call for sustained research at national paddy festival

The National Paddy Festival (Nel Thiruvizha) for 2021 was held at Tiruvarur recently.Presiding over the festival, P. Duraisingam, Chairman, CREATE – Save Our Rice Campaign, recalled the context in whi

The National Paddy Festival (Nel Thiruvizha) for 2021 was held at Tiruvarur recently. Presiding over the festival, P. Duraisingam, Chairman, CREATE – Save Our Rice Campaign, recalled the context in which the ‘Save Our Rice Campaign’ was launched in 2006 and how paddy festivals played an important role in retrieving the indigenous paddy varieties in Tamil Nadu.