About Directorate

Directorate of Crop Management has been established on 1.4.2010 in Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore with the objectives to impart higher education, undertake research and outreach programs in the field of component sciences viz., Agronomy, Agro Climate Research Centre, Crop Physiology, Sustainable Organic Agriculture and Veterinary & Animal Sciences. This directorate was formerly known as Soil and Crop Management Studies since 1984 and bifurcated during 2010 into Directorate of Crop Management (DCM) and Natural Resource Management (NRM).

• Coordinating to strengthening the research programmes in field management, farming system, weed science, irrigation, organic agriculture, weather science, stress physiology and animal husbandry for the productivity enhancement.
• Identifying crop management related field problems in different Agro Climate Zones of Tamil Nadu and solve them on location specific research.
• Providing crop management solutions from ploughing to post harvest, nutrient and drought stress management and weather based agro advisories to improve crop productivity and input use efficiency.
• Imparting and facilitating higher education in components sciences.
• Facilitating the crop management scientists in all the units of TNAU to obtain externally funded schemes at national and international levels..