Programmes & Services

A range of programes and services are planned to be delivered through an integrated action plan, some of which are listed below:

Satellite Community Gardens

MSSBG integrates with the community for conservation and sustainable utilization of four key sectors of biodiversity such as crop diversity, curative diversity (medicinal plants), culinary diversity (traditional and wild food ...

Birding at M. S. Swaminathan Botanical Garden

M. S. Swaminathan Botanical Garden (MSSBG) is spread over 17 ha with diverse representative species of tropical flora consisting of crop wild relatives, wild orchids, medicinal plants, germplasm of a ...

A Garden to show case the Culinary and Curative Diversity

This Garden will show case the rich culinary and curative diversity of Malabar. There are no Gardens in India working with the objective of protecting the long history of medicinal ...

A Garden for Every Child A Scientist

Every child a scientist’ is a concept developed by Prof. M S Swaminathan with the objectives of education for children in science, art and cultural aspects of biodiversity at MSSRF ...

Bird watching, frog and butterfly survey

Seasonal programmes and events has been a part of M S Swaminathan Botanical Garden (MSSBG) to enhance Scientific, Educational and Recreational facet. Birding at MSSBG is a programme to explore ...

MSSBG branded Products

Linking FPO with MSSBG Wynad Agri Marketing Producer Company Limited (WAMPCo), Wynad Agri Marketing Producer Company Limited, a farmer producer organisation promoted by M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation and NABARD for ...

Scientific Training on Field Biodiversity

Scientific training on field botany and zoology For developing scientific knowledge and skills imparting biodiversity, MSSBG engaged in various scientific training programmes. Our short term training progarmmes such as parataxonomy ...

Western Ghats Endemic Plant Information Center

Database on taxonomy, economic and ethno botany of higher and lower groups Western Ghats Endemic Plant Information Center (WEPIC) is a great space for researchers and plant enthusiasts to familiarize ...

Gene banks & Agro-forestry

Field gene banks for the wildfood plants and NWFP plants Wild food plants are one of the important part of food and nutrition security of many communities worldwide. In Wayanad ...

Conservation of Keystone Plants

Ex situ conservation of keystone plant species with sufficient genetic variability MSSBG distributed more than two lakh saplings of 200 RET species to different ex-situ conservation sites in and around ...