Swaminathan, the genius who sowed it rightBorn in Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu on August 7, 1925, Swaminathan played a significant role in changing the trajectory of the agriculture sec...
He walked...and the earth turned green: The life and legacy of MS SwaminathanGeneticist MS Swaminathan who led India’s push in the 1960s to become grain surplus, promoting the use of hybrid varieties and chemical fer...
My appa knew the power of women with knowledge: Soumya Swaminathan“Your appa changed our lives.” Those voices of women farmers I met on Wednesday in a Villupuram village 150km from Chennai have been echoin...
Time ripe for a nutrition revolution: MS SwaminathanStating that India was a country with the largest number of people with malnutirition in the world, he said this was despite adequate food ...
FFMA: fishermen catch all the action with this mobile appThe app, which was piloted by the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) in partnership with Qualcomm and TCS is being used by around 1...
Like Verghese Kurien's milk revolution, mass movement is required in India for nutrition: MS SwaminathanThe govt should immediately set up such centres especially in the areas considered to be farmer suicide hotspots such as Vidarbha, says Swa...
Tribal women farmers in Tamil Nadu hills manage weather stationsOf the seven automatic weather stations in the hill ranges here, four are run by women and three by men with all of them being tribals and ...
AIADMK lawyers protest 'presence' of Lankan official at MSSRFThey raised slogans against Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, protesting against a derogatory article about Jayalalithaa on a Lankan ...
- 2011 a year of challenges as natural calamities likely: M S Swaminathan
The recent floods in Australia and drought in China would make 2011 a 'year of challenges' as natural calamities are likely to result in gl...
- Food security to be affected by climate change: PAU VC
Noting that farm productivity would see significant drop due to climate change, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) Vice Chancellor MS Kan...
- What is eating into Indian food basket?
Every Indian government, past or present, needs to take the blame for the current food impasse, writes a reader. Go nutty for good health