A one day agricultural machinery mela was conducted in Tamil Nadu Agricultural University which saw about 800 farmers across the state visited the mela for exposure on various farm machineries, coordinated by 21 TNAU KVKs.
At the inaugural function held at Anna Auditorium, N. Kumar, Vice-Chancellor, TNAU, presided over the function. The chief guest for the occasion was K. Alagusundaram, DDG, ICAR, New Delhi, who delivered the special address and presented awards to farmers. He informed the gathering that Indian agriculture is 48% mechanized and he hoped to increase this to 70 percentage in another 20 years.
Earlier, in the day demonstration of tractor drawn auto spader, Chised plough, Subsoil coirpith applicator, cheek basin farmer cultivator seed drill, hill drop planter, inclined plate planter, Auger digger, boom sprayer, groundnut harvester and robotic based paddy transplantor were witnessed by the farmers.