Press Release

Chennai June 26, 2014:  A three-pronged action plan was suggested by experts and various stakeholders to address the issue of occupation-related health ailments among salt workers. This was the result of a consultative meeting held at the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation here today. The meeting deliberated and suggested an action plan that included: a pilot initiative setting up toilets, drinking water and protective gear (including goggles, gloves and boots), for a small...

Chennai, April 25, 2014:  If you have just written your Class X exams and have a keen interest in nature, here is a green opportunity for you. The M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) has announced an essay contest on “What can we do to address the issue of climate change” that will help select students for their annual camp on biodiversity, climate change and biotechnology. Twenty applicants, who have just completed their 10th Standard in March 2014, will get an opportunity...

Rwanda,  April 1, 2014: Agriculture-based innovations such as the development of nutrient-rich crops through biofortification will be critical if the goal of eradicating hunger is to be met. This was the central message in Dr. M.S. Swaminathan’s keynote address of the Second Global Conference on Biofortification.   Biofortification, addresses all three major dimensions of hunger - caloric, protein, and vitamin/ mineral deficiencies - and can be a key strategy within the overall...

Chennai, March 12, 2014 :   It is the centenary year of the person who has been referred to as “the man who saved a billion lives”. Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug, credited with having brought about an agricultural movement that increased food production and prevented famines across Latin America and Asia is being remembered across the world, this month. “Take it to the farmer”, were Borlaug’s words shortly before he passed away in 2009, meaning that technological...