| A New Chapter in Fruit and Shoot Borer Resistant Eggplant: |

Mr. K Vijayaraghavan, South Asia Coordinator, ABSPII and the partners in ABSPII project on FSBR Eggplant, Dr. Brent Zehr, Director (Research) of Mahyco and Dr. C Ramasamy, Vice Chancellor of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, exchanging the partnership agreement at TNAU, Coimbatore on March 31, 2005. Also seen is Prof Balasubramaniam, Head of the Department of Biotechnology at TNAU

ABSPII partners in FSBR Eggplant, Mr. K. Ragunathan, director of Sathguru Management Consultants, Dr. Brent Zehr, Director (Research) of Mahyco and Dr S.A Patil, Vice Chancellor of University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, exchanging the partnership accord on April 2, 2005 at UAS, Dharwad

Dr. Susan A. Henry, Dean of College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University and Dr. S. A. Patil, Vice Chancellor of University of Dharwad, signing the MoU on January 7, 2005. This MoU would facilitate the exchange of students, faculty and technology and joint development of new answers to serious challenges in the realms of food security, nutrition and environment protection

Dr. Susan A. Henry, Dean of College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), Cornell University, strikes a pose with our directors Mrs. Hemalatha and Mr. K. Vijayaraghavan on the occasion of signing of MoU with University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, in Bangalore on January 7, 2005 |