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‘Tamil Nadu to have drone corporation’
December 16, 2020 Tamil Nadu is likely to have a drone corporation that will help generate around 40,000 employments and better irrigation management, said Mylswamy Annadurai, Vice-President, Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology and Chairman, National Design and Research Forum.
With the use of satellites and drones, locusts were prevented from attacking farms of South India, he said at a webinar on “Science and Technology for Self-Reliant India” organised by the Press Information Bureau (PIB), Chennai.
The webinar was organised as part of the India International Science Festival 2020, to be held from December 22-25.
He said that, as the population and world food grain production are increasing, there is depletion of land, scarcity of water, poor fertility of soil and lack of labour.