• DST-SERB (MATRICS) sponsored Farmer friendly grape app “Grape Friend” satisifies the grape farmer in Theni district and surrounding villages of Tamil Nadu, India.
• This app deals with prediction of grape yield and decease incidence based on 12 plus years of data on climatic factors, particular area and we proposed mathematical model.
• This is available for everyone for free of cost and farmer friendly app.

Tamil Nadu’s famous Cumbum Panneer Thratchai, also known as Cumbum grapes, has received the Geographical Indication (GI) tag.

The Cumbum valley in Tamil Nadu is known as the ‘Grapes City of South India’ and cultivates the Panneer Thratchai, a variety also known as Muscat Hamburg that constitutes almost 85% of the grape-growing areas in Tamil Nadu.

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