Basudha Lab regenerated a few seedlings using tissue culture method from seeds of the last specimen of Vitex glabrata, that existed in a roadside sacred grove in Chhandar village of Bankura district of West Bengal. Some villagers cut down this Critically Endangered tree in March 2016. The first seedling was successfully transplanted in Kerandiguda village, near Basudha farm, on November 18, 2016.
In 2011, the Vrihi rice gene bank shifted to a tribal village in Rayagada district of Odisha, for a wider... read more
Students who need advanced laboratory amenities to fulfil their dissertation requirements may work with Basudha’s Biotechnology Laboratory for Conservation in Kolkata. read more
Sri Debjeet Sarangi, the Foounder and head of Living Farms, Odisha’s leading organization to fight for agrobiodiversity conservation and indigenous... read more
Basudha Biotechnology Laboratory for Conservation, Kolkata will give a hands-on Training in Molecular Biological Techniques involving protein and DNA characterization from the 21st to... read more
Vrihi's Seed Bank, Asia's largest local ex situ rice gene bank for farmers, will be closed down at Odisha after... read more
Basudha Laboratory for Conservation, Kolkata is the country’s – and perhaps the world’s – only research laboratory that receives... read more
This year's Crash Course in Agroecology will be held from November 26 through December 2, 2024 (both days inclusive). The... read more
