Department of Forage Crops
Research on forage crops was initiated in the Botany section at
the Agricultural College and Research Institute, Coimbatore in
Tamil Nadu as far back as 1959. It was
identified as one of the Co-ordinating Centres of the All India
Co-ordinated Project for Research on Forage Crops by the ICAR in
1971. A full-fledged Department, the first
of its kind in India, dealing with breeding, agronomy and
nutrition of fodder crops came into existence in the year 1976,
at TNAU, Coimbatore. |
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