Vrihi will be Closed after Giving Away 1300 Accessions to 26 Custodians
centrestudies2025-02-20T07:35:21+00:00Vrihi's Seed Bank, Asia's largest local ex situ rice gene bank for farmers, will be closed down at Odisha after 27 years of service to the nation's farmers. Between 14th and 18th April, all of Vrihi's pure line accessions of indigenous rice varieties will be given away to 26 trained farmer-custodians...
Positions Open: Scientist & Lab Assistant for Basudha
centrestudies2024-06-06T11:21:13+00:00Basudha Laboratory for Conservation, Kolkata is the country’s – and perhaps the world’s – only research laboratory that receives no funding support from any governmental and corporate institution. Two positions are open for committed candidates.Position 1: Research ScientistIndian citizens as well as citizens of South Asian countries (holding appropriate...
Basudha Lab Offers Amenities for Students’ Dissertations
centrestudies2023-07-01T15:36:38+00:00Students who need advanced laboratory amenities to fulfil their dissertation requirements may work with Basudha’s Biotechnology Laboratory for Conservation in Kolkata. Contact us with CV.
BBC World Service: Deb Talks on Food Security
centrestudies2026-02-13T08:41:42+00:00Link to Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lYijtP8pjU
A Bengali Book Published by Basudha & Dhyanbindu
centrestudies2024-04-08T08:14:34+00:00Content not found.
Farewell, Debjeet Sarangi
centrestudies2023-07-01T13:57:35+00:00Sri Debjeet Sarangi, the Foounder and head of Living Farms, Odisha’s leading organization to fight for agrobiodiversity conservation and indigenous land rights, passed away on 15 May 2021 of COVID-19. Debjeet was working in the Living Farms field station in Muniguda, when he fell ill, and was admitted in Christian Hospital...
Basudha’s Lab Report (May-Aug)
centrestudies2023-07-01T15:16:03+00:00Read the Triannual Report (May-June) of Basudha’s Biotechnology Laboratory for Conservation here.
Revived Seedlings of Vitex Glabrata Planted in Odisha
centrestudies2023-07-01T14:51:29+00:00Basudha 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...