M. S. Swaminathan Quotes

If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right.

M. S. Swaminathan

One of India's major blessings is the rich store of experience and knowledge available in the rural and tribal areas.

M. S. Swaminathan

A number of non-banking finance companies have entered the rural microcredit market. Many microcredit agencies have been charging interest rates not very dissimilar to those charged by moneylenders. Borrowing then becomes more to meet pressing consumption needs, rather than for farming or small-scale enterprises.

M. S. Swaminathan

I have frequently pointed out that the future belongs to nations with grains and not guns.

M. S. Swaminathan

Leadership is something which other people have to recognize. You cannot demand that I am a leader.

M. S. Swaminathan

Wireless technology has completely revolutionized information transmission and exchange in India. If you go in the coastal areas, small-scale fishermen who go out in small boats, they now carry a cellphone, which has GPS data on wave heights, where the fish are, et cetera.

M. S. Swaminathan

The goal of my University education was to get into a medical college and equip myself to run a hospital in Kumbakonam left behind by my father, M.K. Sambasivan, who died at a young age in 1936.

M. S. Swaminathan

The more powerful a technology greater care should be used to benefit fro it. India should not be left behind the world. From the past revolution of nuclear technology we saw how it could destruct and at the same time were useful for medical science.

M. S. Swaminathan