CAbC News Room
Good quality planting materials of fruit trees are available for farmers at M. S. Swaminathan Botanical Garden, Wayanad. Seedlings available at the garden have high productivity, disease and pest resistance abilities and have been raised with budding and grafting techniques. … Continued
Screw Pine Processing and Training Centre has been launched at Kuttanad, Kerala in loving memory of the late C. K. Sali, the founder President of Kottayam Jilla Tazhappaya Vikasana Federal Samiti. Ms C. K. Asha, MLA, Vaikom inaugurated the function … Continued
Monsoon season is also the season for various pests and diseases especially for the cultivation of spice crops. Diseases such as quick wilt disease, slow wilt disease in Pepper, Rhizome Rot and Blight disease in Ginger, Rotting diseases in Turmeric … Continued
A webinar was organised by Community Resource Centre, Initiative of HDFC Bank -MSSRF Parivartan Programme on World Environment Day, 2021 to discuss and understand about Floods and Tidal waves caused by Climate Change. 10 rain gauges were distributed to cooperative … Continued
MSSRF to plant site-specific-plant species that belongs to Rare Endemic and Threatened (RET) category in the fallow lands. In an initiative, MSSRF has launched a special programme to green the fallow lands in the Wayanad district. Site-specific plant species that … Continued
Agricultural Innovations that have the right potential to solve a real-life issue or to make a novel understanding made the Rural Agriculture Meet (RAIM-2021) a unique one of its kind. The rural change-makers from all walks of life from all … Continued
An orientation programme on “Entrepreneurial opportunities focusing on Gulf Returnees, women and farmers in light of COVID-19 pandemic” was organized on 15-16th March 2021 at CAbC, Wayanad. The aim of the programme was to orient the participants towards entrepreneurial prospects … Continued
Community Agrobiodiversity Centre (CAbC), M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Wayanad in collaboration with Kerala State Council for Science & Technology organized a two day Awareness Programme for School Students on Biodiversity Conservation, Sustainable Agriculture & Climate Change held on 8-9 … Continued
N. Anil Kumar Banana (including plantain) is the world’s second topmost fruit in terms of production (116.78 metric ton in 2019) after tomato (technically it’s a fruit) followed by Watermelon (100.41 Mt) and Apples (87.24 Mt). In many low-income, food-deficit … Continued
MSSRF researcher Dr Merlin Lopus received Best Scientist’s paper award (Agriculture) in 33rd Kerala Science Congress (25th -30th January 2021). She is a KSCSTE- Post Doctoral Fellow at Community Agrobiodiversity Center-MSSRF Wayanad. She presented her work on the nutritional profile … Continued