Unnat Bharat Abhiyan, SRM Institute of
Science and Technology(UBA-SRM IST) conducted online webinar - ORGANIC GARDENING
on 4th July 2020 at 4pm for SRM adopted village people and
various participants of Participating Institutes, UBA, and Tamil Nadu under
UBA.
Dr.V.Thirumurugan, Associate Director, Campus
Life, UBA Nodal Officer of SRM IST has started the program and he has
emphasized the importance of conducting online webinar for SRM adopted village
people.
Dr. T.Deepa, Associate Professor, ECE, SRM IST
delivered the welcome address.
During the program she welcomed Dr.Leenus Martin,
Director of Campus Life, and SRM IST, Associate Director of CL, coordinators
and participants. She introduced about speaker and his experience in the
Agriculture field.
Speaker has given speech about Organic, Terrace, Roof and Kitchen Gardening from the grassroots level. Then the village people were actively participated and asked queries during the session. He has answered for all participants queries. Finally, Director of CL , SRM IST also shared his experience with some photos taken on his terrace gardening
About Speaker:Mr. N.Madhu Balan has studied B.Sc (Agri) in Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 1979-1983. He joined from service in August 2016, putting 33 years of service. During Govt service He had experience in Agmark marketing for 5 years, agriculture field officer for more than 25 years and quality control officer for 5 years.
During his service, he has contacted
as many as possible number of farmers and visited their fields to know their
field experiences of farmers and studied the practical difficulties faced by
them. Then He decided to render my wholehearted service to those to create
awareness about the latest technologies invented by researchers. Moreover,
his experience in field diverted towards insight of organic farming
understanding the drawbacks of usage of chemical fertilizers and pesticides to
the field.
Moreover, he has found a number of
educated youngsters want to turn their head towards agriculture in a motive to
improvise the traditional ways of their old generation always complaining loss
in crop cultivation. Since He showed an interest in computer which gave an idea
of creating a web site naming as “VIVASAYAM
KARKALAM” which means let us learn agriculture. He started this in 2012 and
slowly group of people started to show their interest in this website and
now the numbers have increased to 20,000 members. He used to give ways and
means of agricultural technology in simple local language which created a great
impact among farming community. Through this web site he is able to reach
thousands of them every day very easily. They use to share their experiences,
problems and agriculture prospects and production of quality agricultural
produce and also export opportunities.
Moreover, His agriculture articles
were published in newspapers and agriculture book publications. He was invited
by FM radio station to give speech about the preparation of organic solutions
to kick the pest and diseases of crops in a healthy manner for He has received
good welcome among the listeners and He has released a compact disc as
requested by them. He has given speeches in farmers meetings, teacher’s
gatherings, fertilizer dealers about multifarious field technologies. He
has owned terrace garden and give my experiences in radio about terrace
gardening for the benefit of urban publics making them also involved in
agriculture. He was invited by Podhigai
Television and also honoured in PUDIYADOR
ULAGU SEIVOM.
https://www.facebook.com/vivasayamkarkalam/
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