One of India's major blessings is the rich store of experience and knowledge available in the rural and tribal areas.

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• M. S. Swaminathan:

  Green Revolution technologies are scale-neutral but not resource-neutral. Inputs are needed for out

• M. S. Swaminathan:

  The smaller the farm, the greater is the need for marketable surplus, so that the family will have

• M. S. Swaminathan:

  In spite of the dominant role played by women in both farming, they are denied credit as they lack

• M. S. Swaminathan:

  A number of non-banking finance companies have entered the rural microcredit market. Many microcred

• M. S. Swaminathan:

  Denying a child even at birth an opportunity for the full expression of its innate genetic potentia

• M. S. Swaminathan:

  Land tenure is key to protecting land rights. The Central and State governments should have accessi

• M. S. Swaminathan:

  Micronutrient deficiency in the soil results in micronutrient malnutrition in people, since crops g

• M. S. Swaminathan:

  Contract farming can be promoted if it is structured on the basis of a win-win situation both for t

• M. S. Swaminathan:

  Farming is the riskiest profession in the world since the fate of the crop is closely linked to the

• M. S. Swaminathan:

  I have frequently pointed out that the future belongs to nations with grains and not guns.