Vice Chancellor of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) V.Geethalakshmi, during her academic visit to the US inker an MoU with Kansas State University (KSU) to begin collaboration in skill development and exchange of students/faculty, sharing knowledge and infrastructure and joint research. 

A press release said that this will help TNAU students to get trained in frontier areas of agricultural science and improve their employable skills. 

V.Geethalakshmi also visited leading Universities in the Europe viz., Cambridge University and Cranfield University in the United Kingdom, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany and Faculty of Geo Information and Earth Observation, University of Twente (ITC, UT), Netherlands and explored the possibilities of expanding TNAU’s capacity in plant sciences, soil and water conservation, drone applications and using Geo spatial technologies in Agricultural applications. 

She had successful dialogues for facilitating TNAU’s Under Graduate (UG) students to carry out their internship in foreign Universities so as to enhance their employable skills and entrepreneurial ability. 

A tripartite MoU was signed between TNAU, ITC, UT and a Chennai based International start-up Farmwise AI to strengthen TNAU’s capacity on using satellite and drone technologies in Agriculture.

 Procedures for signing MoU between TNAU and Cranfield University, UK on soil digital mapping, drone applications in agriculture and capacity building of students and faculty are initiated.