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Workshop on Alternative
Analytical Technology for soil nutrient analysis (AAT)
Workshop on “Alternative
Analytical Technology for soil nutrient analysis (AAT)” was
organized during from 25th to 27th November 2011.
The notification
inviting nominations were sent to various institution, agriculture
colleges, universities and NGO’s in India and received about 30
applications of which 28 participants were invited to attend the
workshop. The workshop aimed at identifying suitable organizations
for establishment of soil testing laboratories equipped with AAT
for the benefit of millions of farmers in India.
Twenty five
participants representing from various agriculture colleges,
universities, research centre and NGO’s from India were
participated in the workshop. The workshop was inaugurated by Dr.
G. J. Samathanam Advisor and Head, Technology system Development
and Transfer, Department of Science Technology, New Delhi and
addressed gathering highlighting the importance of integrated
farming so as to produce healthy and quality foods. The three days
workshop programme scheduled with qualitative analysis of food,
soil and manure products through different image forming
techniques and quantitative analysis of soil by AAT method.
The participants did
the soil testing procedure through AAT on their own and all the
participants were actively participated. Participants interacted
with the Dr.K.Perumal (Deputy Director, R&D and Admin),
Dr.S.Seshadri (Director, R&D) and Mr.K.Raghunanthan, IT Head,
Murugappa Group one of the review committee members of MCRC.
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Topic |
Resource Person |
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Lecture on Qualitative testing of
food, manure and soil samples |
Dr.K.Perumal, MCRC |
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Soil productivity and Fertilizer
management |
Dr. G. Narayanaswamy, Former professor
and Head, IARI |
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Soil nutrient management through soil
testing |
Dr.Pushpavalli, EID Parry |
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Alternative Analytical Technology |
Dr.K.Perumal, MCRC |
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Image processing and casebase reasoning |
Mr.Debarun, IIT-M |
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Field approaches in testing soil
nutrient through AAT |
Mr.Maheswaran, Coromandel International
Limited |
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Popularization of AAT for benefit of
Indian farmers |
Mr.K.Raghunanthan, IT Head, Murugappa
Group |
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Inaugural
function. (from left) Dr. K. Perumal, Deputy
Director (R & D and Administration) Mr.
Mahatvaraj, Member Secretary, MCRC, Dr. S.
Seshadri, Director (R & D), MCRC, Dr.S.Samathanam
Advisor and Head, DST Sri.M.V.Murugappan,
Chairman,MCRC, Prof.Sutanu chakrabarthy, IIT(M) |
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Inaugural
address by
Dr. G. J. Samathanam Advisor and head,
Technology development and Transfer, DST, New Delhi
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Participants
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Participants
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Lecture
on Qualitative analysis of soil, manure and food
products delivered by Dr.K.Perumal |
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Dr.
Unnamalai, Senior Programme officer, DST Core
support, MCRC and Mr. Chakrapani, Extension
officer, MCRC explained about the MCRC Vision and
Mission to workshop participants
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Qualitative
technique demonstrated by Ms.J.Sivasankari,
Programme officer, DST core programme
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Demonstrating
Image processing by soil tool to participants |
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Mr.K.Raghunanthan
IT Head, Murugappa Group interacted with participants
and issued certificates xxx
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AAT
video release
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Workshop
participants with resource persons |
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Mr.Gokul
Narendran (Participant) interpreted the Image
manually |
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