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Agriculture project to help small farmers in Chennai
Chennai,
Nov
14:
'Agriculture
productivity
improvement'
project
of
the
National
Agro
Foundation
and
the
State
Bank
of
India
was
launched
at
the
NAF
R&D
Centre
in
Taramani
to
help
the
small
farmers
in
Kancheepuram
on
Thursday,
Nov
13.
The
bank
donated
Rs
9.95
lakh
to
the
Foundation
towards
purchase
of
various
farm
machinery
and
equipment
for
implementation
of
the
project,
which
would
benefit
several
small
and
marginal
farms.
"The
support
of
the
bank
will
help
us
to
pursue
our
dream
of
a
second
green
revolution,
for
which
the
Foundation
was
set
up," managing
trustee
of
NAF
S
S
Rajsekar
said.
The
project
aims
at
helping
small
and
marginal
farmers
in
the
Kancheepuram
district.
"We
want
to
take
up
300
farmers
in
this
one
district
and
hope
that
they
become
a
model
for
the
whole
country,"
Rajsekar
said.
Chief General Manager of SBI, Chennai, J. Chandrasekaran handed over the donation made by the Bank's Community Services Banking Department to trustee of NAF M.R. Sivaraman. Besides purchasing the machinery and equipment, the money would be used for training the farmers and soil testing.
"Giving money alone is not the answer. Education for the small farmers is important, but many institutions have become purely academic," Mr. Chandrasekaran said, underscoring the need to train the farmers.
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