Kerala: Farmers Congress concludes

Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 15:01 [IST]

Kannur, Feb 6: The two-day Farmers Science Congress that unveiled experiments and practices to agriculturists concluded here yesterday.

A veteran farmer, M J Joseph, from Chemberi in Kannur, was presented with the Distinguished Agriculture Inventor (DAR) award, carrying a gold medal, citation and certificate at the session.

Eighty-four papers were presented in the event organised by the Kerala Agriculture University.

Farmers presented their novel farm techniques and practices in agricultural engineering, agronomy, agro-processing, plant protection and animal husbandary at the Congress.

R J Thomas (agriculture engineering), Abraham Mathew (plant breeding), P V Divakaran (agronomy), P Raghavan (agro processing), N Vasavan (plant protection), P A Chandran (animal husbandary) and Pheolix Mathew (general) were presented with the best awards on Farmers researches.

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Topics: kerala, kannur

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