Dr Vijaya Bhaskar, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Kassel, today presented the results of his work on “Organic and conventional breeding affects early vigour traits of wheat,” at the Foundation.

Professor M S Swaminathan was awarded the 1st World Agriculture Prize today at the 11th Global Agriculture Leadership Summit in New Delhi hosted by the Indian Council of Food and Agriculture.

This years’ World Food Day theme is a timely reminder of the fact that a zero hunger world is possible by 2030.

On the occasion of receiving the 2018 Mohan Dharia Rashtranirman Puraskar, Prof M S Swaminathan announced that the cash amount of Rs. 1 lakh associated with this prize will be utilised for creating Dr Mohan Dharia Award for Coastal Ecological Security.

‘Food is Brahman’ said Dr Rajagopal Velamoor, Former Director, ICAR- CPCRI, and Founder and President, Society for Hunger Elimination (SHE), Tirupati, while talking about his book “Make Hunger Free India” at the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation today.

Prof M S Swaminathan, Founder, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation will be receiving the “Lt. Dr. Mohan Dharia Rashtranirman Puraskar” award from the Vanarai Foundation.

On the eve of World Food Day, Dr Rajagopal Velamoor will be presenting a lecture on his book ‘Make Hunger Free India’ at MS Swaminathan Research Foundation on Monday, October 15, 2018 at 11.30 AM.

Our country is rich in a variety of food crops including millets. Unfortunately millets were classified as coarse grains during the colonial period.

The latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned about the consequences of allowing mean temperature to rise above 1.5ºC. In 1990, I had pointed out that even a 1ºC rise in mean temperature could cause a reduction of about 400 kilograms of grains per hectare in wheat in North India.

M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) hosted the book release of Dr E A Siddiq, eminent agricultural scientist and rice breeder, today.

M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) was invited to conduct a session on nutrition sensitive agriculture by ICAR-IARI as part of a three week workshop on “Extension led Nutrition Security” in New Delhi, on 20 September 2018.

Today is the birth anniversary of both Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri. Once Mahatma Gandhi was asked by the National Dairy Research Institute, Bangalore to fill up their visitor’s book, Gandhiji while filling it up indicated under the column Occupation, ‘Farmer’.