A couple of months ago I had written about the hardship caused to the growers of natural rubber in Kerala as a result of low price.

Marine fish catch is going down in recent years by over 5 percent per year with a steep fall in the production of oil sardines.

The library of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) was today named Prof M S Swaminathan library at a function in Delhi.

MSSRF is set to partner with the University of Tasmania, Australia to develop salt-tolerant rice in a project to be funded by the Australia - India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF).

Access Agriculture - an international NGO which showcases agricultural training videos in local languages - and MSSRF have signed an MoU to dub Access Agriculture videos into local languages for farmers.

A team of scientists have given the name of MSSRF staff member Mr Salim P. M. to an orchid species newly reported from Southern Western Ghats.

We face three major challenges on the food security front. First, there is extensive poverty induced undernutrition.

The launch of a National Agriculture Market portal (e-NAM) by the Government of India is a welcome and timely step.

According to available reports, the Southwest monsoon this year is likely to be normal. Severe drought is however persisting in parts of Maharashtra where in a city like Latur, drinking water has become a luxury.

The Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI),  a at its  Foundation Day Celebration held on April 1, 2016, in Delhi, announced that it would name its library after Prof. M S Swaminathan. Prof. Swaminathan gave the Foundation Day lecture on the occasion of  the first Founder's Day celebration  of the IARI  to be organised after 100 years of its establishment.

I am happy that Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed has taken over as the CM of Jammu & Kashmir. She has great qualities of leadership as I observed when she participated in a meeting of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs of which I was the then President in the year 2007 at Cairo.

Prof M S Swaminathan, Agriculture Scientist has urged the Government to accept and implement the Farmers' Commission Report, with regard to Minimum Support Price for grains set at production cost plus 50% citing the need to safeguard interests of small farmers and the increasing risk of taking up agriculture as a profession due to adverse incidents caused by climate change.