M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, which has been collectivising farmers of the Illuppur Agriculture Producer Company Limted (IAPCL) in Illuppur of Pudukkottai district in Tamil Nadu, has facilitated a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between Tamil Nadu Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium and IAPCL to set up a seed processing unit (SPU) under the National Agriculture Development programme (NADP).

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MSSRF signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) on July 2, 2018 with the Directorate of Agriculture and Food Production (DoA& FP), Govt. of Odisha, Bhubaneswar, for the implementation of the Project “Strengthening Livelihoods and Enhancing Food and Nutrition Security of Small and Marginal Farmers in Koraput District of Odisha through a Farming System Model”.

M S Swaminathan Research Foundation received three research and development projects, of that Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) supported two projects namely “Alternative Seed System model” and “Integrated Farming System model” and another project supported by Department of Science and Technology, National Academy of Sciences (NASI) on sustainable livelihood enhancement through empowering tribal women in Koraput.

To increase the area under Kagga cultivation, technical guidance in the form of on-farm demonstration were provided to the Lukkeri – Manikatta farmers by MSSRF and University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad (UASD).

MSSRF facilitated 200 women farmers in Mailam block, Villupuram district, Tamil Nadu in receiving the ‘Farmers Integrated Hand Book (FIHB)’ or ‘Vivasayigalin Orunginaintha Kaiyedu’ in January 2018.

MSSRF has facilitated the Reddiarchatram Seed Growers Association (RSGA) in introducing a new website for Tamil Nadu farmers in collaboration with Commonwealth of Learning (COL), which was launched on March 20, 2018.