Coimbatore: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, backing organic farming, on Wednesday said South India has been a living university of agriculture.

Inaugurating the South India Natural Farming Summit 2025 here, the PM noted that Coimbatore region is home to some of the world’s oldest functioning dams, and that the Kalingarayan canal was built here in the 13th century. The temple tanks in this region became models of decentralized water conservation systems and this land pioneered scientific water engineering thousands of years ago by regulating river water for agriculture.

He expressed confidence that leadership in natural farming for the country and the world will also emerge from this very region.

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