A Seminar on Awareness on Agriculture was held on 28/05/2017 at A.Jettihalli, Nallampalli Village in Dharmapuri, conducted by Swamy Vivekananda Foundation. Smt.Suseela PA(Agri) to District Collector, Smt.Amudhavalli AD (Agri) Nallampalli and other Agriculture Officials (Retd) and farmers from various villages participated.It was also surprising that a few Engineering Graduates who were working in IT field are now doing agriculture with great interest. In the seminar AIR FM LRS Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu was lauded for its' Agriculture broadcast and this LRS FM broadcasts Farmers' News daily at 6.35 am and the Weekly Live Agriculture programme "Farm Land" (Vayal Veli) and weekly News Letter for involving Farmers, Experts and Officials for giving valuable inputs.
Shri.R.Murali PEX was honoured for the new intiatives and he has already presented a research paper on role of ICT in Farm Broadcast in a Conference held at Manonmaniam Sundaranar University (MSU) TirunelVeli, Tamil Nadu in January 2017.
Contributed By:PEX AIR DHARMAPURI ,airdpiprog@gmail.com