The German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), Germany had sanctioned a project entitled “Agrobiodiversity conservation through seed production, characterization, documentation and developing marketing linkages for traditional rice varieties of Tamil Nadu” for a period of four months from July to November 5, 2019. Under this project, 58 farmers were involved in the conservation of 49 traditional paddy varieties in 66 acres in the Tiruvannamalai and Kancheepuram districts. Two training programmes on seed production techniques, each of which was of two days duration, were conducted in September and October 2019. Fifty-four traditional rice samples were tested for their nutritional properties. We participated in two Agri Exhibitions held in various parts of Tamil Nadu. On 20th October, we had also organized a ‘Traditional rice food festival’ at Hotel Crowne Plaza in Chennai. This was in the nature of a celebration of traditional rice varieties. The Chief Chef of Crowne Plaza, Mr. Deva had curated a lunch with a spread of various items made with 11 selected traditional rice varieties. Mr. Deva, Chief Chef of Crowne Plaza hotel and Ms. Revathy Shanmugam, well known culinary expert, were honored by CIKS during the event. A publication entitled “Traditional Rice Varieties of Tamil Nadu – A Source Book” has been brought out in English. This publication has been widely circulated and well-received (https://ciks.org/2020/05/03/traditional-rice-varieties-of-tamil-nadu-in-english-and-tamil/ ). As part of this project, an 8 – minute video film called – “Myriad Hues of Rice” was made which details our work on traditional rice (https://ciks.org/2020/05/13/myriad-hues-of-rice-a-film-on-ciks-work-relating-to-seed-conservation/ ).