To meet demand: Vice-Chancellor of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University P.  Murugesa  Boopathi  (third  from  right)  and  Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Auro Mira Energy Company Private Limited G. Suresh (second from left) exchanging MoA for launching  of contract  energy  tree farming programme  at the Forest College  and Research  Institute,  Mettupalayam,  on Thursday.

METTUPALAYAM: With a view to enhancing biomass-based power generation through energy plantations, Chennai-based Auro Mira Energy Company Private Limited has entered into a memorandum of agreement (MoA) with the Forest College and Research Institute (FCRI) of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), here on Thursday.

With biomass-based  power generation  plants in Tamil Nadu, the company  is interested  in promoting  energy plantations  through contract  farming  with  a  view  to  developing  its  fuel  resources.  Under  the  aegis  of  the  MoA,  a  contract  energy  tree  farming programme  for  augmenting  biomass-based   power  generation  was  launched  at  the  FCRI  by  P.  Murugesa  Boopathi,  Vice- Chancellor of TNAU. For the first-of-its-kind project in the State, which is funded by Auro Mira, FCRI will be the facilitator between the farmers who will grow the energy trees, and the company.

Inking the MoA, G. Suresh, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Auro Mira Energy, said the country had the potential to generate much