As a socially responsible company, Noble Seeds is involved in the following social causes.
Creating agriculture awareness among school children about cleanliness and encouraging them to study agriculture and related subjects for their professional education.
Training Agriculture University students as interns by offering them a hands-on vegetable breeding experience.
Collaboratively offering research opportunities to masters and doctoral candidates from Agriculture Universities.
We have listed below the different activities as part of our social engagement.
Annual student visit to our Research and Development (R&D) farms
The Noble Seeds R&D team organises an annual school student farm visit to its farm to create awareness about agriculture and horticulture.
The farm visit practically exposes children of the ten to thirteen age group, creating awareness about agricultural practices.
Hundreds of students visit our farms yearly to learn more about Noble Seeds’ activities and their impact on farmers’ crop productivity and the country’s food security.
Internship for Agricultural University students
Each year, Noble Seeds offers fifteen to twenty agriculture students short internships of a fortnight and long ones of three months.
During their internship at Noble Seeds, the interns get hands-on training in germplasm storage, disease identification, disease screening, emasculation, pollination, selection, harvesting, packing, and quality parameter evaluation. They can check for crop firmness, Total Soluble Salts (TSS), pungency, mucilage, FS and GOT.
Noble Seeds carefully schedules the internship to involve the interns closely with the company’s R&D team and give the former hands-on experience in plant breeding and related subjects.
Collaborative Research:
Students of agricultural universities conduct their master’s and doctoral programme research at Noble Seeds under the guidance of the R&D department.
A Department of Seed Science and Technology (SST) of the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore (UASB) has completed her doctoral research on genotype characterisation in tomatoes.
Two doctoral students of Plant Breeding and Genetics and one from SST are currently completing their research at Noble Seeds on disease resistance in watermelon, genetics of disease resistance in tomato and seed dormancy in okra.
Annual field worker talent day:
The R&D section arranges recreational activities and games as an annual tradition at Noble Seeds. At this event, the company appreciates the winners through prizes.
At the end of the programme, the company serves a lavish feast to the field workers.
Cleanliness awareness and cleaning drive at school:
In November 2017,Noble Seeds conducted a cleanliness awareness and cleaning drive at the Government Higher Primary School of Hanabe village near the company’s Doddaballapur R & D farm. As part of the cleanliness drive, the company’s R&D team cleaned the school’s backyard to free it of weeds and plastic waste.
