Ram Chet Chaudhary
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Ram Chet Chaudhary is an Indian
agricultural scientist An agriculturist, agriculturalist, agrologist, or agronomist (abbreviated as agr.), is a professional in the science, practice, and management of agriculture and agribusiness. It is a regulated profession in Canada, India, the Philippines, the U ...
. Born and educated in India, he taught in various agricultural universities in India and went on to study in Germany. His works on agriculture have been published across the world and form part of the curriculum in many Indian agriculture universities. He has studied the production of
rice Rice is the seed of the grass species ''Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice) or less commonly ''Oryza glaberrima ''Oryza glaberrima'', commonly known as African rice, is one of the two domesticated rice species. It was first domesticated and grown i ...
and other crops in Nigeria, the Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, as well as India. He has written a textbook on
plant breeding Plant breeding is the science of changing the traits of plants in order to produce desired characteristics. It has been used to improve the quality of nutrition in products for humans and animals. The goals of plant breeding are to produce cro ...
, published by Oxford University Press in 1982 and reprinted 4 times through 1993, and a comprehensive work on rice varieties, published by FAO in 2001. He founded on 8 September 1998, and is Chairman of th
Participatory Rural Development Foundation (PRDF)
Formerly he was the coordinator of the International Network for the Genetic Evaluation of Rice (INGER).


Awards

In 1974 Ram Chet Chaudhary was given Dr. Rajendra Prasad (ex President of India) Award for developing excellent rice varieties for Uttar Pradesh, India. In 2000 Ram Chet Chaudhary was awarded (along with other leading Rice scholars) the Distinguished Collaboration Award by the Cambodian Prime Minister
Hun Sen Hun Sen (; km, ហ៊ុន សែន, ; born 5 August 1952) is a Cambodian politician and former military commander who has served as the prime minister of Cambodia since 1985. He is the longest-serving head of government of Cambodia, and o ...
.International Rice Research Notes Vol. 25, No. 3, December 2000 (p42)
In 2017 Ram Chet Chaudhary was awarded "Fellow of ISPGR" by Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, Dr. R.S. Paroda and other dignitaries. Dr. Ram Chet Chaudhary was also awarded by Indo - Nepal Samrasta organisation, in the presence of Prime Minister H. E. Mr. Oly, Deputy Prime Minister H. E. Mr. Yadav and others with "KARM RATNA Award" in 2018 in Kathmandu (Indo-Nepal Samrasta News 2018).


References

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