Promoting conscious water usage in the wider community
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Educational Opportunities for local communities (Free):
VIT School of Agricultural Innovations And Advanced Learning (VAIAL) faculty have published books on irrigation water management practices for the farmers in their vernacular language for better understanding. The book clearly explains the groundwater and surface water irrigation management techniques to be adopted in the irrigated fields. In addition the irrigation suitability of water is also discussed. The book was released by Honourable Chancellor, Dr. G. Viswanathan and distributed to the local community farmers at free of cost.
Also, VIT in its path of integrating the knowledge hub, allows the students to gain wisdom from the experts outside the campus including national and international professionals from reputed and renowned institutions, the expert groups from the research centers, and industries. The following lectures focusing on the theme of “water quality/quantity management” have been arranged in the CY of 2023 and AY of 2022-23.
Book Released by Honourable Chancellor,
Dr. G. Viswanathan and the first copy was given to a local farmer.
Farmers Training Programme on “Farmers and Scientists Interaction Meet”
Event Type: Farmers Interaction Program
No. of Organizers: 02 (Dr Paul Mansingh J, Dr.Anbarasan)
Event Description: Farmers Training on “Farmers and Scientists Interaction Meet”
Event Date and Time: 02.05.2023, Tuesday & Time: 11:00 AM to 2.00PM
No. of farmers attended: 13
Resource Person:
- Dr. S. Babu; Dean (Plant Pathology)
- Dr. R. Ramesh kumar; Associate Professor (Horticulture)
- Dr. Mohanraj K; Assistant Professor (Extension)
- Dr. T.Pradeesh Kumar; Assistant Professor (Agronomy)
- Dr. Ashwini T R; Assistant Professor (Agronomy)
- Dr. Vidisha Tomer; Assistant Professor (Food science)
- Dr. Nisha A (Veterinary)
- Dr. Karthika Rajendran; Assistant Professor (Seed Technology)
- Dr. Padma Lakshmi; Assistant Professor (Agricultural Economics)
- Dr. J Paul Mansingh; Associate Professor (Agricultural Extension)
- Dr. Saravanan S; Associate Professor (Agricultural Engineering)
- Dr. P.Anbarasan; Assistant Professor (Agricultural Extension)
Purpose of Training Program:
1. Main purpose is to identify the field level problems faced by farmers and offering suitable recommendations
2. During the program following problems were discussed
- Low cost organic sucking pest control methods in fruits and vegetables
- Improvement of fruiting behavior in Mango Varieties
- Exploring the possibilities of Medicinal values of traditional Paddy Varieties
- Value addition in Agriculture and Horticulture crops
- Model farm for Integrated crop management in Mango
- Caterpillar and fruit fly control in Mango
- Farm consultancy by VAIAL scientist
- Seed quality control in traditional Paddy variety
- GI tags for Agriculture and horticulture crops in Vellore
- Grafting in vegetables.
Few Consultancy Project Details which promotes SDGs in the wider community are given:
| Project Titles | Project Category | Client | Date of Commencement | Project End | Free/Paid | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Training On Finite Element Analysis | Training/Corporate | Triveni Engineering & Industries Ltd | 07-Mar-22 | 11-Mar-22 | Paid | 472000 |
| Custom 3D Printer Development For Printing Polymer Matrix Composite (PMC) | Consultancy | Aditya Institute of Technology and Management | 10-May-22 | 25-Jul-22 | Paid | 30000 |
| Developer Support for Data Engineering Boot | Consultancy | Perficient India Pvt Ltd | 02-May-22 | 31-Oct-22 | Paid | 215292 |
| Decontamination Of Industrial Effluents using Nano-Materials for Recovery of Water | Consultancy | Tata Steel Limited | 25-Oct-22 | 25-Oct-22 | Paid | 1362900 |
| Assessing The Design Adequacy Of Sewage Treatment Plants (Stps) & Grey Water Treatment Plants (Gwtps) With A Total Capacity Of 550 KLD And 639 KLD | Consultancy | Eco Services India Pvt Ltd, Chennai | 04-Nov-22 | 30-Nov-22 | Paid | 590000 |
| Analysis Of Polymer Concrete Made of Vinyl Ester Resin | Consultancy | Carborundum Iniversal Limited | 07-Oct-22 | 07-Nov-22 | Paid | 24780 |
| Environmental Impact on the Durability of FRP Rebar | Consultancy | Grentech Industries | 01-Dec-22 | 31-Jan-23 | Paid | 20000 |
| Assessing the Design Adequacy of Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) With a Capacity of 2 MLD And Structural Stability of Existing Buildings for a Township | Consultancy | Eco Services India Pvt Ltd, Chennai | 13-Feb-23 | 12-Mar-23 | Paid | 708000 |
| Assessing The Design Adequacy of Sewage Treatment Plants (STPS) & Grey Water Treatment Plants (GWTPS) With a Total Capacity of 760 KLD and 65 KLD | Consultancy | Eco Services India Pvt Ltd, Chennai | 13-Feb-23 | 12-Mar-23 | Paid | 295000 |
| Awareness Programme About Neem Contract Farming | Consultancy | Coromandel International Ltd | 05-Jan-23 | 31-Mar-23 | Paid | 80216 |
| Testing of Energy Efficient Concrete Blocks | Consultancy | AL ADWA MUTHAMAYAZA TRD & CONT CO | 20-Mar-23 | 20-May-23 | Paid | 200000 |
| Development of Bioceramic 3D Scaffolds by Extrusion-Based Printing Technique Using Cellink BIOX System. | Consultancy | Altem Technologies(p) ltd | 10-Mar-23 | 01-May-23 | Paid | 38822 |
| Development of The Thermal Conductivity And Heat Transfer Rig-Phase_I | Consultancy | Air Treatment Engineering Pvt Ltd | 05-Dec-22 | 04-Jun-23 | Paid | 220000 |
| Optimization of Laser Shock Peening Parameters on The Base of Deep Machine Learning Methods | Consultancy | LLC Factor of High Technologies | 03-Aug-22 | 02-Aug-25 | Paid | 300000 |
| Studies on the Influence of Hydrogen Exposure on Mechanical and Absorption Behaviour of Polymer Composites | Consultancy | DOVER India Private Ltd,BANGALORE | 04-Jan-23 | 04-Jun-23 | Paid | 553420 |
| EMDP On Enhancing Project Management And Decision Making Skills | Corporate Training | B&B Developers & Builders Pvt Ltd | 11-Mar-23 | 11-Mar-23 | Paid | 63000 |
