Agricultural Knowledge Management Unit (AKMU)

The Agricultural Knowledge Management Unit (formerly known as ARIS Cell) established during 1996 functions under the Statistics Section. The Institute has set up a LAN consisting of nearly 100 nodes with a 100 Mbps Internet Connectivity that has been provided by Ministry of Science and Technology under National Knowledge Network (NKN) in coordination with National Informatics Centre (NIC). The AKMU also takes care of maintaining and updating the Institute website.

AKMU I/C:  Dr.R.Ramesh, Principal Scientist (Plant Pathology)

Co-ordinator:Dr.Vinayaka,Scientist (Agrl. Statistics)

Technical Officer: Mr. S. KARUPPASAMY, Technical Officer

Skilled Support Staff: Mr. M. Shobhan Babu,SSS

Young Professional :Mr.J.S.Harilakshmanraj,YP(I)

Officer I/C:  Dr. A. Selvi, Principal Scientist (Biotechnology)

The Library has at present a total collection of about 14,024 books consisting of Textbooks, Reference Books, Theses, Annual Reviews & Advances and bound volumes of Journals, besides free publications (annual reports, newsletters, etc.) received from ICAR institutes , SAUs and foreign organization’s.

Library Infrastructure

♦ Four computers with Internet facility (connected to the LAN of the Institute, and one system with videoconferencing facility)

♦ Printer

♦ Heavy duty photocopier

♦ Scanner

♦ Adobe Acrobat Pro DC software (for creating and editing pdf files).

Services Rendered to the users:

♦ Book lending and Reference Service 

♦ Internet browsing for scientific literature search

♦ Online access to e-Journals through CeRA (Consortium for e-Resources in Agriculture) of ICAR. Also, Users can request for articles, through CeRA, available in the library holdings of CeRA members.

♦ Helping Users in information retrieval from Library & fulfilling their information needs

♦ Photocopying

♦ Scanning

♦ PDF files editing

Prioritization, Monitoring and Evaluation Cell

Officer-In-Charge : Dr. C. Palaniswami, Principal Scientist

Main Functions :

♦ Organize Institute Research Council Meetings

♦ Organize Research Advisory Committee Meetings

♦ Organize QRT meetings

♦ Organize Regional Committee Meetings

♦ Project Monitoring and other support services as required by the Director

Activities of PME Cell

♦ PME cell acts as a link between the Institute and the ICAR Head Quarters in maintaining all day-to-day correspondences on technical matters.

♦ The Cell acts as a link between the Institute and external Institutions, including sugar factories, farmers and other research institutions.

♦ The section maintains all the Research Project Forms (RPF) of all ongoing and completed research projects of the Institute.

♦ The section maintains all files and correspondence with regard to Externally Funded Schemes.

♦ Contracts for Consultancy Services are routed through this section

♦ The section coordinates the Education services offered by the Institute to students who are pursuing short term research projects and Doctoral programmes offered by various Universities.

♦ Monitoring of breeder seed production schemes and supply of seed material to sugar factories and farmers are facilitated through this section

♦ All Institutional meetings and weekly seminars are arranged through this section

Farm Section

Officer I/C:  Dr.T.Arumuganathan,Principal Scientist (Farm Machinery and Power)

The Institute has a total area of 80.09 ha including farm, laboratory and office buildings. The farm area is 54.98 ha and is situated in three campuses viz., Main (7.28 ha), ECC (28.50 ha), Additional land (17.20 ha) and VPT (2.00 ha)