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‘FLORA’ & ‘AGRI-TECH’

The Department of Biotechnology organised two intra-departmental competitions titled FLORA & AGRI-
TECH on 17th December under the leadership of Ms Jenica Rangel and Ms Vrunda Raiker. They were held in

the lobby area, Block C, St. Xavier’s College, Mapusa –Goa. A total of 39 students participated.

The plant exhibition cum competition titled ‘FLORA’ was a group competition based on the theme ‘Plants in
our day to day lives’ wherein students had to pick any one criteria and present any four plants under it. This
competition was held to bring awareness about the significance of plants around us & familiarise students with
the taxonomic background of plants. The judges for the competition were Dr. Andrew D’Souza, Assistant
Professor - Department of Chemistry & Ms. Maria Beatriz D’Souza, Associate Professor - Department of
Botany. The students exhibited medicinal plants, insect repellent plants, flowering plants with medicinal values,
common garden plants having hidden medicinal values & traditional medicinal plants.

The second competition, ‘AGRI-TECH’, was an agricultural model making competition on the theme
“Technology innovations in Agriculture” to help understand the need of using modern technology &
innovative approach to increase productivity & raise profitability. The students exhibited working models based
on aquaponics, hydroponics, solar drip irrigation, vertical gardening, aeroponics & GM seeds. The judges for

the competition were Dr. Suraksha Dongrekar, Assistant Professor - Department of Botany & Mr. Siddhesh
Menon, Assistant Professor - Department of Microbiology. The students explained the working of the exhibits
to the visitors of the exhibition.

~Ms. Jenica Rangel, Faculty

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