The grain storage technology by Tamil Nadu Agricultural University has become an instant success in Egypt and the country is interested in more such technologies.
Dr S Mohan, Professor and Dean, Post graduate stuties in TNAU and inventor of many gadgets for stored product insects, had trained about 20 researchers and scientists from the African continent under the Indo-African Programme.
The trainees were provided with multimedia CD on TNAU gadgets and a TNAU Trap to test and demonstrate to the top officials, so that this could pave way for the technology to be introduced in their centres, university sources said.
Similar attempts had earlier resulted in introduction of TNAU trap technology n Ethiopia, Rwanda, Nigeria and Turkey.
Based on a presentation by one of the trainees, Manalsorour of Food Technology Institute, Giza, Cairo, many scientists there have shown keen interest in the technologies.
The institute has invited Mohan to present TNAU technologies to the scientists during a conference organised by Food Technology Research Centre, Cairo later this month, the sources said.
