The Krishnamurthi International Agricultural Development Foundation (KIADEF) along with the Indian Society for Certification of Organic Products held ‘Agliberate – liberating next generation agriculture’ conference here on Saturday.
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Vice-Chancellor N. Kumar released the KIADEF vision paper, which spoke about agro-ecological wealth regenerative agriculture development, ecosystem governance for social accountability, competency building for new age agrarian economy, agriculture-enabled enterprises creation and demand-drive farming.
Tributes paid
K.K. Krishnamurthi, Chairman and Managing Trustee, KIADEF, spoke about the vision of the organisation’s founder S. Krishnamurthi and paid his tributes.
Director General of Police and TNAU alumnus C. Sylendra Babu spoke on the University alumni contribution to KIADEF.
The organisers also inaugurated a ‘Centre of Excellence in organicology and re-genesis of agro-ecology’ and announced the creation of an ‘FPO Marketing Counsel’ at the event.
