Since inception in 1991, Vivekananda Institute of Biotechnology (VIB), a branch institution of Sri Ramkrishna Ashram Nimpith, is engaged in development, innovation, modulation and adaptation of appropriate rural technologies and transferring the selected technologies to the people through trainings, skill & awareness building and follow up programme in Sundarban. Sundarban, the largest delta of the world at the bottom of West Bengal, is ecologically marginalized by cyclone, high salinity of soil, water logging and lack of infrastructure. It has rich flora and fauna diversity which has been endangered due to climatic vagaries and ecological destruction.
We wish to take the blessings of science and technology to the remotest family in the delta and develop the area as a whole by
• Assessing, designing and developing multi-skill biotechnology programme
• Building village based human resources to provide services
• Creating knowledge base in the village
We work as a technology Resource Centre with Biofertilizer Technology including soil testing & fertilizer management, production & and application of biofertilizer; plant protection including neem based pesticide & other biopesticide; horticultural biotechnology including plant tissue culture; mushroom production; renewable energy; aquaculture; apiculture and other appropriate technologies. Significant achievements during this core support are:
• Generation of based human resources working as entrepreneurs involving 3000 farmers
• Publication of 4 training manuals and one research paper.
VisionTo build up a modern rural biotechnology resource center with advanced research and development facilities, along with a self sufficient and well equipped training center as a platform to incubate the entrepreneurs.