70% of new admissions at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University are women

In recent years, the number of women joining the institute has been on the rise. K Ramasamy, VC of the university, says that in 1972 only one girl student was admitted. Whereas  among the 1018 students who got admission on Saturday, 699 are women. Ramasamy said that since women seem to do much better than men, more women are given admission. He believes that the proportion of women to men will only increase further in the coming years.

Earlier women did not opt to join the university because agriculture involved strenuous manual labour. With the increasing use of machinery in agriculture more women started joining the university, VC he said.