Name | A.J.Jagadeesh Kumar
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Date of Birth | 15/06/1959 |
Qualification | B.Sc.(Agri).(1981,TNAU,Coimbatore) |
Superannuation
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30/06/2017 |
Post Last Held
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Additional Director of Horticulture,Directorate of Horticulture and
Plantation Crops,Government of Tamil Nadu |
Mobile | 9443524020 |
jagadeeshkumarooty@gmail.com |
Sri.A.J.Jagadeesh Kumar

D.R. Sudha
M.Sc (Agrl.Microbiology), Ph.D.,
Dr.A.J.Jagadeesh KumarFormer Additional Director of Horticulture
Career profile :
Entered into government service as an Agricultural officer in the farmers training center at
Kanchipuram in the Dept.of Agriculture.Had a task of imparting training to the farming folks
involved in the farm radio program,apart from releasing monthly magazine for farmers in the name
of’Uzhavar Nanban’.Having been alloted to the Dept.of Horticulture from the Dept.of Agriculture,
started the carrier as a Horticulture Officer(subject matter specialist)in the erstwhile training and
visit program in the Nilgiris,followed with farm management task in the state horticulture farm for
the production of Horticulrure planting materials such as tea,coffee,pepper,silver oak,etc.and
then as Farm Manager in the district Live-stock farm for the production of fodder and silo for the
Holstein-Friesian cattle.There after,having put the maximum of service for 12 years as Agriculture
Development Officer of Ooty block of Nilgiris operating all the development schemes to the
farmers and elevated as Assistant Director of Horticulture,Ooty.In that period all the state
horticulture farms,Govt.Rose Garden,annual Ooty rose shows and Govt.schemes were to be
handled and the first ever national rose convention in Tamil Nadu was organised in the Nilgiris.On
elevation as Deputy Director of Horticulture,Nilgiris I was called on to the Horticulture Directorate
on special duty to look after the schemes of the directorate in the state level and subsequently
promoted as Joint Director of Horticulture(Planning)and then as Additional Director of
Horticulture(schemes)in the directorate itself.During this period the task was to chalk out schemes
for the state and getting sanction from the Government of India and Government of Tamil Nadu and
monitoring the program implementation in the districts.