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Dear Readers,

Have you registered for MSSRF Foundation Day and Virtual Conference yet!

The three-day annual event will be attended by National policymakers, Scientists, and the Global experts on Climate Change, Agriculture, Food and Nutrition. The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Thiru M K Stalin, will inaugurate the Foundation’s annual conference on Friday, 6 August 2021

The high-level virtual conference is intended to refocus the global narrative around food and nutrition security concerns in the time of climate change, which had been sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic. Experts dwell on ways to tackle the COVID-19 Pandemic induced Food and Nutrition crisis.

Besides Chief Minister, some of the other prominent names participating in the conference are Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist, WHO, Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, World Food Prize Laureate 2021, Dr Vinod L Paul, member, NITI Ayog, Dr. Maximo Torero Cullen, Chief Economist, FAO, Dr Maria Isabel Andrade, World Food Laureat, International Potato Center, Peru, Tmt Supriya Sahu, IAS, principal Secretary to Govt. of Tamil Nadu, Dept. of Environment, Climate Change and Forests, Thiru C Samayamoorthy IAS, Agriculture Production Commissioner and secretary to Govt of Tamil Nadu, Department of Agriculture and farmers Welfare, Prof. Donald Bundy, London School of Hygiene nd Tropical Medicine.

You can experience our meeting by registering the following

              
Koraput: Backyard Nutrition Garden is the way forward to counter malnutrition

Promotion of household nutrition garden in every household in the backward district of the country Koraput in Odisha is the way forward to counter malnutrition. Read More. 

 

Diversity in the sodium transporter, HKT1;5 within the genus Oryza

The MS Swaminathan Research Foundation's (MSSRF) scientists examined the gene which is a crucial component of making cereal tolerant to salinity.   Read More. 

Popularising the use of biofertilizers and biocontrol agents among finger millet farmers

MSSRF is implementing the programme for empowering small and marginal farmers in aspirational districts of the country and helping them to grow as scientific leaders at the grass-root level.
 Read More. 
 
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