Students take out rally to create awareness on nurturing soil health
The Hindu
World Soil Day celebration at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University highlighted soil health management and sustainable agriculture practices.
A rally by Post-Graduate and Ph.D students of Directorate of Natural Resource Management marked the World Soil Day celebration at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University organised jointly by the Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry and the Coimbatore Chapter of Indian Society of Soil Science, on Thursday.
The rally by students on the theme ‘Caring for Soils: Measure, Monitor, Manage’, was meant to create awareness on role of soil, its protection, preservation and soil health management.
Flagging off the rally, Vice-Chancellor V. Geethalakshmi said technologies and products developed by the Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry were being disseminated through through various research and outreach activities.
Sustainable soil management practices were necessary to safeguard the valuable resource for future generations, the Vice-Chancellor emphasised.
Delivering the 13th Dr. B. Ramamoorthy Memorial Lecture 2024 on ‘Digital Era - Next Generation Agriculture’, M.V. Sriramachandrasekharan, former Professor and Head, Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, and Director of Research Annamalai University, Chidambaram, spoke on challenges in sustaining food and nutritional security, evolution of water use efficiency in Indian agriculture, soil degradation, and climate change.
The digital revolution in farming was characterised by the convergence of technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and big data analytics, he explained.
The State Bank of India was also associated with the event.
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