Tamil Journalists Attend Biotech Media Workshop
April 20, 2007| |
The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) organized a two- day media workshop on agricultural biotechnology at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India from April 16-17, 2007 to strengthen the understanding of Tamil media regarding biotechnology, biosafety and related issues. The workshop was supported by the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MOEF) under the GEF-World Bank capacity building project on biosafety and co-organized by the International Service of Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA).
The workshop was conducted in the Tamil language and attended by more than 40 journalists from across Tamil Nadu. The inaugural session was addressed by Dr. CD Mayee, Chairman-ASRB, Sh G Balachandhran, Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MOEF), Dr. C. Ramasamy, Vice Chancellor-TNAU, Dr. V. Krishnasamy and Dr. Balasubramanian of TNAU, and Bhagirath Choudhary of ISAAA.
In the keynote address, Dr CD Mayee stressed that the media should be provided with all the details about new technologies. This will help provide authoritative news from a direct source and help remove misconceptions among the people. At present, most of the news on technologies is based on a lot of wrong information from indirect sources in the media, he said.
For more information contact Bhagirath Choudhary of ISAAA South Asia Center at b.choudhary@cgiar.org.
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