About 18 new crop varieties and three farm implements evolved by the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University were released as Pongal gift to farmers by the State Minister for Agriculture, Mr Veerapandi
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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/business-line-new-delhi
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture