With an aim to develop and incorporate usage of ICT tools and software for extension education, training, consultancy, research and information services, the Tamil Nadu Agriculture University (TNAU) today signed a MoU with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Hyderabad.
The MoU will pave way for making Agritech Portal and Crop Doctor into user friendly mobile applications, as proposed by the varsity to convert into web-enabled platform, which have been desktop applications so far.
Besides, the agreement will provide a back end technical support to TNAU for implementing various ICT based projects at e-Extension centre, Education Media Centre, DoEE and all attempts will be made to ensure that developments and projects are accomplished to a very high degree of quality, with parsimony of time, a TNAU release said.
The MoU was signed by TNAU Vice-Chancellor Dr K Ramasamy and C-DAC Director, A Magesh, in the presence of TNAU Registrar Dr C R Ananda Kumar and Director of Extension Education Dr H Philip.