The Tamil University was established to provide higher research in the Tamil language and advanced study in allied branches such as translation, lexicography, music, drama and manuscriptology. M.Phil and Ph.D programmes were introduced in 1992 for disciplines such as Language, Literature, Translation, and Sculpture.
The library is open to the public.It also supports efforts to publish rare manuscripts from the collection, as well as ensuring all volumes are preserved on microfilm.The Library has installed computers in 1998 for the Computerisation of Library activities. As a first phase, the Library catalogues are being stored in the Computer for easy information retrieval. It is also proposed to digitalise the manuscripts of this Library shortly.
Agriculture is not only growing food for people and animals, but also growing other things like flowers and nursery plants, manure or dung, animal hides, leather, animals, fungi, fibers, biofuels and drugs