The Borlaug Award is an award recognition conferred by a

fertilizer A fertilizer (American English) or fertiliser (British English; see spelling differences) is any material of natural or synthetic origin that is applied to soil or to plant tissues to supply plant nutrients. Fertilizers may be distinct from ...

company,

Coromandel International Coromandel International Limited is an Indian corporation founded in the early 1960s by IMC and Chevron Companies of USA and EID Parry, headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Originally named Coromandel Fertilisers, the company is in the ...

, for outstanding

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scientists for their research and contributions in the field of agriculture and environment. The award was created in 1972 and named in honour of

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Norman E. Borlaug. It carries a cash prize of Rs 500,000, a gold medal, and a citation. The award should not be confused with the IFA Norman Borlaug Award of the International Fertilizer Industry Association or the Borlaug Award for Field Research given by the World Food Prize Foundation.

Recipients

• 2020 : Kajal chakravarti * 2012: K.V. Prabhu and Ashok Kumar Singh * 2006: Rajendra Singh Paroda * 2005:

Rattan Lal Rattan Lal (born 5 September 1944) is a Soil science, soil scientist. His work focuses on regenerative agriculture through which soil can help resolve global issues such as Effects of climate change on agriculture, climate change, food security an ...

and Subramaniam Nagarajan * 2004: I. V. Subba Rao and Suman Sahai * 2000: Anil Agarwal * 1997:

Azra Quraishi Azra Quraishi (22 September 1945 – 22 November 2002) was a leading botanist from Pakistan. She worked on the improvement of potato production in Pakistan and became known for her work on tissue culture. She was given the Borlaug Award in 1 ...

* 1995: Ebrahimali Abubacker Siddiq * 1991:

Amrita Patel Amrita Patel is an Indian businessperson associated with cooperative dairy sector as well as environmentalist. She headed National Dairy Development Board from 1998 to 2014 which led the world's biggest dairy development program Operation Flood ...

* 1985:

Virender Lal Chopra Virender Lal Chopra (9 August 1936 – 18 April 2020) was an Indian biotechnologist, geneticist, agriculturalist and a director-general of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), known to have contributed to the development of wheat ...

* 1983: Nanjappa Shamanna Subba Rao * 1982:

Hari Krishan Jain Hari Krishan Jain (28 May 1930 - 8 April 2019) was an Indian cytogeneticist and plant breeder, known for his contributions to the field of genetic recombination and the control of interchromosome level. He is a former chancellor of the Central A ...

* 1979: Bishwajit Choudhury and

M. S. Swaminathan Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan (born 7 August 1925) is an Indian agronomist, agricultural scientist, plant geneticist, administrator and humanitarian. Swaminathan is a global leader of the green revolution. He has been called the main archi ...

* 1977: J.S. Kanwar and Gurdev Khush * 1976: Chivakula Krishnamoorthy {{cite book, title=Indian and Foreign Review, volume =14 , page =29 * 1973: Jitendra P. Srivastava r. J.P. Srivastavaand Dr. Manodutt Pathak * 1972: Dr. Atmaram Bhairav Joshi

References

Indian awards Indian science and technology awards Awards established in 1972 Agriculture awards of India 1972 establishments in India

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