Protect Ecosystems and Sustain Benefits of Ecosystem Services Dear Readers,We are bringing out this issue of the Newsletter while the Nation is celebrating its 72nd Republic Day. A republic is where the supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives. Read More Concepts and Methods for Ecosystem Restoration In the Western Ghats, India […]
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 plant diversity) and the Rare-Endemic-Threatened (RET) tree species of the Malabar region. Custodian farmers associated with the garden are engaged in on-farm conservation of diverse […]
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 variety of food plants such as roots, tubers, legumes, citrus, and wild edible greens. Differing from the conventional concept of Botanical Gardens, MSSBG gives equal priority […]
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 herbs, folk medicine and cuisine, crop husbandry and agricultural practices. For Malabar, the historic treatise of van Rheed’s “Hortus Malabaricus” published in Amsterdam between1678-1693 is […]