Students come up with 90-day mission to help farmers in Tamil Nadu

Education serves its purpose when it comes to helping people. Such a case of education and skilling of the common man to create a better prospect for the agriculture industry has been seen in Tamil Nadu. A group of final year students of Ambil Dharmalingam Agricultural College and Research Institute are on a ninety-day mission to help the farmers of Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu. These students have studied agriculture and have immense knowledge of crops and farming, on the basis of which they want to help them by organizing camps for farmer. The mission will run for 90 days starting from February 1 in Veppanathattai block of Perambalur district. In this mission the students will aim to educate the farmers about crops like maize, cotton, sugarcane and onion.

So far in their mission the students have found that there is leaf twister disease in onion crop. The students have figured out a solution and made the farmers aware of it. In an interview with TNIE (The New Indian Express), one of the students talked about how farmers are not aware of leaf twister disease in onion crop. The students have raised awareness about diseases as well as measures to help farmers. Now, the situation is better as many farmers are educated about many things related to their crops which they did not know earlier. A handful of farmers are using indigenous seeds to combat leaf twister disease. They now know that hybrid seeds can have a negative impact on the crop. Even sowing seeds from crops is not good for the crop.