A three day Networking Workshop on “Balancing Climate, Bio-diversity & Food security – Towards a Global Alliance” is being conducted at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore in association with Queen’s University, England & Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) from March 18-20, 2019.
- Kumar, Vice chancellor of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University inaugurated the Workshop. In his presidential address, the Vice chancellor stressed that food & nutritional security; the impacts on biodiversity and climate are crucially 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 Tamil Nadu Agricultural University has initiated studies on the physiological changes occurring in crop plants due to increase of temperature up to 4-5◦C. He recalled that technologies evolved by the Environmental Sciences Department of the University helped combat straw burning issues in Punjab and Haryana.
Deepak Kumaresan of Queen’s University, UK highlighted the importance of the Network workshop and emphasized that addressing such key environmental issues is necessary as around 40 million migration is expected in the near future due to these issues.
The workshop is being attended by around 80 delegates belonging to Ireland, Bangladesh, England, Guyana, Brazil, District environmental engineers, Scientists from 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 Tamil Nadu Agricultural University.