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Cornell University plans agriculture foundation in IndiaRatan Tata, head of the Tata business empire, and N R Narayana Murthy, chief of information technology major Infosys Technologies, are expected to play a key role in the formation of the centre. While Tata is a former student of the Ithaca, New York-based university, Narayana Murthy, whose firm has seen the highest-ever growth in market capitalisation on the country's two major bourses, is said to be keenly interested in rural development. Kansas University, for example, has tied up with the Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University while, on a more commercial side, US-based Monsanto Enterprises Ltd has a research and development alliance with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, on biotechnology and gene mapping. "There is growing interest in funding bodies, domestic and off-shore, to invest in the Indian farm sector and food processing sector and they need to develop appropriate funding models," Business Standard newspaper quoted K V Raman, associate director of special projects at Cornell University, as saying.
