The document outlines the ABCs of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation in Chennai, India on its 30th Foundation Day. It describes the Foundation's work in areas such as anchoring agricultural science, promoting bio-villages and ever-green revolution, caring for conservation, reaching the unreached through distance education, fostering farming systems and food security, sensitizing gender-friendly agriculture, and achieving sustainable development goals. The Foundation strives to be a transparent, unique, and exemplary institution that continues its zeal and efforts towards making progress in agriculture and rural development.

1. The ABC to XYZ of
M.S.Swaminathan Research Foundation
Chennai, India
30th Foundation Day
Dr. M.VELAYUTHAM
Former Executive Director
MSSRF,CHENNAI
7th August 2019

2. • A for Anchoring Agriculture Science progress and
propagation
• B for Promotion of Bio-villages and Bio-Towns and
Cities
• C for Caring for conservation of Nature
• D for Reaching the unreached through
Distance Education
• E for Promoting Ever-Green Revolution
• F for Realising the Food Security Act and Fostering
Farming Systems Models
(FSN) and Farmers Producer Organisations
and Companies

3. • G for Sensitizing Gender-Friendly Agriculture
• H for Hand-holding Self-Help Groups
• I for Igniting Integrated Rural Development
• J for Promoting job-led Growth Enterprises
• K for Knowledge and Skill Empowerment
• L for Leveraging Life- long- Learning (4Ls)
• M for Mentoring Grass-root Institutions

4. • N for Providing National Virtual Academy
platform
• O for one-stop Open-University
• P for Promoting Pro-poor , Pro-Women and
Pro-Nature Trinity
• Q for Quest for Bio-happiness and
Bio-diversity conservation
• R for Research for Sustainable Agriculture
• S for Achieving Sustainable Development
Goals

5. • T for The Transparent Institution
• U for Uniqueness to universal relevance
• V for Promoting ICT enabled Village Knowledge
and Resource Centres
• W for More crop per Drop of Water Movement
• X for An example of an Exemplary Centre
Without Walls
• Y for Driving Youth to Modern Agri-Business
and Value chain
• Z for Continuing the untiring Zeal towards the
Zenith during this century and Beyond......
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