A 3-Day Tamil E-Content Development Workshop, beginning here tomorrow at Tamil Nadu Agricltural Univeresity, with a concept to develop scientific articles in Tamil on the Terminologies in agricultural sciences with at least 250 word per terminology.
The 3-day workshop is being organized jointly with Tamil Virtual Academy, Chennai and Agricultural Scientific Tamil Society, New Delhi, with the participation of more than 200 agricultural professionals consisting of young scientists, Research Scholars and Research associates of TNAU.
The Academy aims to upload at least one article about each glossary of agricultural sciences so that there would not be 'nil' response when a common man searches in search engines like Google and Wikipedia, TNAU release said.
In this direction, the workshop aims to develop at least 25,000 mini-articles on various disciplines of agriculture like agronomy, soil science, pathology, entomology, breeding, social sciences, agricultural engineering, horticulture, and forestry.
The participants are given opportunity to open up account online and given hands on training for uploading of e-content in website for the purpose of researchers, students and ultimately farmers.
