TN Save Our Rice - Part 12 - Karungkuruvai, an medicinal rice variety

Thiru. Athirangam Jayaraman (Contact - 0091-94433 20954) is a farmer, Consumer protection activist and he is currently heading a Project Co-ordinator for "Save Rice Campaign" Tamil Nadu Chapter under the name C.R.E.A.T.E. - Consumer Research Education Action Training Empowerment) in Thiruthuraipoondi, Tamil nadu, India. He is co-ordinating the state indigenous farmers to mobilize and save the indigenous seeds and exchange themselves, through Seed festivals twice a year. His training institute has more than 53 collections of Tamil nadu's indigenous varieties. Apart from this C.R.E.A.T.E. creates community seed banks in various places of Tamil nadu. The interested farmers shall contact him at CREATE, Organic Agriculture Training and Research Centre, Perumal Koil street, Athirangam, Kattimedu - 614 716. Thiruthuraipoondi Taluk, Thiruvarur district. Phone: 04369-2209954, Cell: 94433 20954, E-mail: [email protected] For more info visit: Save Our Rice http://www.thanal.co.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52:save-our-rice&catid=25:campaigns&Itemid=87