| Name(s) |
M.S.
(Monkombu Sambasivan) SWAMINATHAN |
| Date of
Birth |
August 07, 1925
– Kumbakonam, Madras, India. |
|
Identity |
Indian geneticist and
international administrator |
|
Other Events &
Developments |
- He is renowned for his leading
role in India's "Green
Revolution," a program
under which high-yield varieties of
wheat and rice seedlings were
planted in the fields of poor
farmers.
- He is known as the "Father
of the Green Revolution in India".
- He is the founder and Chairman
of the M.S. Swaminathan
Research Foundation.
- He is an advocate of moving
India to sustainable development,
especially using environmentally
sustainable agriculture, sustainable
food security and the preservation
of biodiversity, which he calls an "evergreen
revolution".
- From 1972 to 1979 he was
Director General of the
Indian Council of Agricultural
Research.
- He was Minister of
Agriculture from 1979 to
1980.
- He served as Director General of
the International Rice
Research Institute
(1982–88).
- In 1988, he became President of
the International Union for the
Conservation of Nature and Natural
Resources.
- He is a Fellow of the Royal
Society of London, the U. S.
National Academy of Sciences, the
Russian Academy of Sciences, the
Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the
Italian Academy of Sciences.
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Awards and Accolades |
- Padma Shri
(1967)
- Padma Bhushan
(1972)
- Padma Vibhushan
(1989)
- World Food Prize (1987)·
- He was one of three from
India included in TIME
Magazine's 1999 list of the "20 most
influential Asian people of the 20th
century", the other two being
Mahatma Gandhi and
Rabindranath Tagore.
- ......................And many
other Natinal and International
awards and accolades.
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