The contributions of the legendary agricultural scientist Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, popularly known as M.S. Swaminathan, to the farming community, especially to the community in the hill district, Wayanad, is remarkable.
Dr. Swaminathan set up the Community Agro Biodiversity Centre (CAbC) at Puthur Vayal here in 1997, as part of the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, a non-profit NGO, to develop and promote strategies for economic growth that directly target increased employment of the poor in rural areas.
One of the major objects behind the centre was to conserve the vanishing plant species of the Western Ghats—and propel an agricultural revolution at that time.
