Saturday, June 21, 2008
Tiruchi: The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University will offer two certificate courses in horticulture under the open distance learning programme.

They are Nursery technology for horticultural crops and Landscaping.


The Anbil Dharmalingam Agricultural College and Research Institute in Tiruchi will function as a study centre for these two courses.

College students, unemployed graduates, farmers, housewives and others fluent in Tamil can join the programme.

The course is for six months and the fee is Rs.1,500 per subject.

The course commences in July and ends in December.

Horticultural experts of the institute will be the resource persons during the study period.

The Director, Open Distance Learning, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore could be contacted for application and prospectus in the telephone numbers 0422 – 6611229, 6611429 or through e-mail in the address odl@tnau.ac.in, a press release from the Institute said.