Online project to help farmers go hi-tech
e-Velanmai is a novel project to empower farmers, the state’s premier’ agricultural university will offer cost-effective scientific methods that can be applied to agriculture.
Deccan Chronicle, 16.7.2011
e-velanmai with World Bank
“The World Bank had re-viewed e-Velanmai and adjudged it as an effective model of agricultural extension serving the cause of agricultural development in the State.
Dr.N.Ajjan,
Director, CARDS,
TNAU, Coimbatore
(The Hindu 18.7.2011)
Technology Brings farmers closer to scientists
Farmers will be initiated into electronic agriculture or e-Velanmai’, the Information and Communications Technology (ICT)-enabled agricultural extension model, which has been successfully tested on over 1,000 farmers for three years.
The Hindu 19.7.2011
First of its kind initiative in India
The e-velanmai project, a novel way to take technologies developed by Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) to farmers with the help of information and communication technology (ICT) tools.
“TIMES OF INDIA, 19.7.2011”