Farm Facilities

The Centre of Excellence in Millets, Athiyandal would help the farming community in general and Small Millets growers in particular by way of producing and disseminating small millets seeds, technologies and other information from time to time for overall development. Farm having well trained manpower, 15 A type, 20 B type labours and an area of 30.40 acre, the different departments have established farms of their own in a total cultivable area of about 23.47 acre with supplementary irrigation facilities by three open and bore well each. All the small millets crops such as ragi, samai, tenai, varagu, panivaragu and kuthiraivali in these farms. The cultivation practices of small millets are explained to farmers, students and others through demonstration plot. In addition to the regular field trials to research purposes.