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Agricultural school opens at Saidapet

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An agricultural school was started at Saidapet, Madras, the institution that later became the agricultural college at Coimbatore.

In 1868 an agricultural school was started at Saidapet in Madras. From 1876 to 1905 it was known as the Madras Agriculture School, Saidapet. In 1906 the school was shifted to Coimbatore, where the foundation stone of the Madras Agricultural College was laid. The college became the core of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, established in 1971.

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