COIMBATORE: Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) has launched a website, www.fcrinaip.org, on “A Value Chain on Industrial Agro-forestry in Tamil Nadu” as part of the National Agricultural Innovation Project.

The project involves establishment of demonstration plots in farm land using high yielding clones of pulp wood and match wood species. It is being implemented from 2008 to 2012 in five districts of Tamil Nadu at a budget outlay of Rs. 3 crore.

Launching the website, Vice-Chancellor P. Murugesa Boopathi stressed the need for speedy transfer of industrial agro-forestry technologies across the State with the participation of various stakeholders.

The website has details about the project, consortium partners, project operational areas, cluster level farmers' information, innovative technologies, market information and value-addition in a dynamic mode.

M. Govinda Rao, Dean, Forest College and Research Institute, and K.T. Parthiban, Consortium Principal Investigator, spoke.

Courtesy - Hindu