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Stories of Change

Adaptive traits for salinity tolerance in coastal rice landraces and halophytic rice wild relative

Soil salinization is identified as a major cause of land degradation, rendering land unsuitable for crop cultivation. Domestication of crops over the past 10,000 years has resulted in the loss of ancestral traits. Crop Wild Relatives (CWRs) can be important sources of salinity tolerance.

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Tools, technology and entitlements: sea safety is theme of World Fisheries Day at Poompuhar

Sea Safety was the focus of the ‘World Fisheries Day’ event at MSSRF’s Fish for All Centre, Poompuhar, in the presence of representatives from the Fisheries department, Coastal Security Police,

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Reaching out during Cyclone Nivar: Technology and community rapport play significant role

As Cyclone Nivar hit the eastern coast of India, on November 25-26, several thousand farming and fishing community members especially in the states of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry,

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Story 4: How e-marketing enabled Hill brooms collecting tribal women to access market

The tribal women in Kotia village, Pottangi block of koraput they collect and make Jhadus (Hill Brooms) for their livelihoods. Normally, middle men used to purchase

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How will we go for work: Our girl children are alone in our houses 

The pandemic closed the schools. The regular classes of children has became through online platforms. This situation compels the children to sit at home for all the days.

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The Bitter life of Tea Plantation Labourers behind a strong cup of Tea

Covid pandemic shrank the entire world into a single room. It affected people in terms of economy as well as physical and mental health. In the state of Kerala, Idukki, Wayanadu,

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The Covid-19 and Fishing women

Fish is the staple food of the seafaring people and the people in Poombukar in Nagapattinam district are constantly changing their eating habits as there is no fish available due to lockdown.

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Post Covid-19 – Agriculture work and women

Women make up 80% of the workforce on farmland. They spend 16 hours a day on household chores and farmland. What happened to these agricultural workers in the first

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Story 1: Corona Tragic – Ten Kandha families leading a miserable life

The article focused on the lives and the livelihood of ten Kandha families and how they became victims of COVID-19. Lathiguda village of Bariniput GP near Jeypore block is situated

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Story 2 – Use of improved practices and seeds in Fingermillet

This is the story about the Ragi/mandia cultivation by women farmers in Machhara village in koraput district who are primarily doing subsistence farming.

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Publications and Newsletters

International Conference 2021

This fortnight e-synergy has some of the eminent participants’ videos who speak on various issues related to food and agriculture.

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MSSRF Annual Report 2020-2021

Thirty-First Annual Report

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