M.S.Swaminathan Research Foundation

M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) was registered in 1988 as a non-profit Trust. The basic mandate of MSSRF is to impart a pro-nature, pro-poor and pro-women orientation to a job-led economic growth strategy in rural areas through harnessing science and technology for environmentally sustainable and socially equitable development.

MSSRF is doing research in the following five areas:

• Coastal Systems Research


• Biodiversity and Biotechnology


• Ecotechnology and Sustainable Agriculture


• Reaching the Unreached


• Education, Communication, Training and Capacity Building.