Flagship Project 5

Aquaponics as an alternative farming method for the Punjab

28 March 2022

Farmers in the Punjab state of India are more dependent on wheat and rice cultivation as it ensures a reasonable remuneration with assured MSP. However, the continuous production of the same type of crops may create a negative effect on soil fertility, and also imbalance the demand-supply ecosystem of food products. Crop...

Professor Harpreet Singh

TIGR2ESS wins the Vice-Chancellor’s Collaboration Award!

11 October 2021

The TIGR2ESS project, led by Professor Howard Griffiths, Head of the Department's Physiological Ecology Research Group , has won the Vice Chancellor's Collaboration Award. The Vice-Chancellor’s Research Impact and Engagement Awards recognise outstanding achievement, innovation and creativity in devising and implementing...

Dr Ettore Settanni

Dr Manveer Singh

Dr Naoum Tsolakis

Dr Tomás Harrington

Dr Jagjit Singh Srai

TIGR2ESS programme shaping state-level policy intervention for agri-business in Punjab

11 March 2020

On Thursday 5 March 2020 TIGR2ESS Flagship Project (FP) 5 held a workshop on policy interventions for agri-business in Punjab. This event, held at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) , Ludhiana, was co-hosted by key members of FP5, Dr Sandeep Kapur (PAU) and Dr Jag Srai (University of Cambridge), and chaired by PAU Vice Chancellor Dr BS Dhillon. In attendance were key state government officials, including Suresh Kumar (Chief Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister), Viswajeet Khanna (Additional Chief Secretary, Development), and leaders from the major state Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) and Cooperatives.