DMPQ- Highlight the recommendations of Swwaminathan Commission mentioning bioresources for their nutrition and livelihood security of Rural India.

Rural people in India depend on a wide range of bioresources for their nutrition and livelihood security.  The report recommends:

• Preserving traditional rights of access to biodiversity, which include access to non-timber forest products including medicinal plants, gums and resins, oil yielding plants and beneficial micro-organisms;

• Conserving, enhancing and improving crops and farm animals as well as fish stocks through breeding;

• Encouraging community-based breed conservation (i.e. conservation through use);

• Allowing export of indigenous breeds and import of suitable breeds to increase productivity of nondescript animals.