Agricultural Sciences & Technology

YEAR	WINNERS	SUBJECT OF RESEARCH
2008	Dr. W.S.Lakra Vice Chancellor & Director, Central Inst. of Fisheries Education, Mumbai	For developing DNA barcoding of a variety of Indian fish species and of fish cell and tissue culture techniques.
2007	Dr.R.K.Jain Head, Dvn. of Plant Pathology, IARI, New Delhi	For development of virus resistant transgenic crop varieties of groundnut and papaya.
2006	Dr.D.D. Patra Scientist G & Head Agronomy & Soil Science, CIMAP, Lucknow	For the development of the scientific understanding of the N 2fixation method and development of a slow release urea formulation for sustained availability of Nitrogen for plants and maintenance of soil fertility.
2005	Dr. Paramvir Singh Ahuja Director, I.H.B.T., Palampur	For Development of tea biotechnology consisting of micro propagated shoots on seedlings, characterising and DNA fingerprinting of tea germplasm and Catechinbiosynthetic pathway in tea.
2004	Dr. C. Chattopadhyay NRC on Rapeseed Mustard, Bharatpur	For Development of integrated disease management in oilseeds and vegetable crops using eco-friendly strategies, plant extracts and identification of disease resistance in oilseed crops.
2003	Dr. Naseema Beevi Dr. Thomas Biju Mathew Dr. K. Saradamma Kerala Agricultural University Vellayani	For Development of Eco-Friendly pest control of coconut and palm health care practices.
2002	Dr. R K Pathak Central Institute for Sub-tropical Horticulture, Lucknow	For development of agro-techniques for aonla, cultivation on sodic land, rejuvenation of mango, plant nutrient management and pest management.
2001	Dr. Subhas Chandra Mukherjee Director, Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai	For development of Polyvalent Vaccine for immunization against aeromonas hydrophila.
2000	Dr. P Ananda Kumar Principal Scientist, IARI, Delhi	For development of fruit borer resistant Bt strains for brinjal, tomato, potato and cabbage.
1999	Dr. T S Verma Head, IARI Regional, HP Dr. S Joshi Dr. P C Thakur Principal Scientists, IARI	For development of a variety of Paprika for Oleroresin extraction. The variety Kt P1-19 has been produced and distributed to commercial units for Oleroresin extraction and powder making.
1998	Prof. Jeevan Prakash Verma Former Head, Plant Pathology Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi.	Development of bacterial damage control of cotton.
1998	Dr. Om Prakash Govila Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi	Development of Downy mildew resistant hybrid for breeding of pollinator.
1997	Dr. Y. R. Sarma Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calicut	Contribution to disease control of black pepper, cardamom, ginger and cashew.
1996	Dr. Raj Krishan Gupta A.D.G (Soil) I.C.A.R. Krishi Bhawan, New Delhi	Development of nutrient sorption of alkali soil, salt tolerance of plants, tree sapling in saline soil and skimming fresh water from saline ground water.
1995	Dr. V. Arunachalam Technical Advisor M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai	Rationalizing genetic concepts in plant breeding.
1994	Dr. Rattan Lal Yadav Project Director, Cropping Systems Research Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Meerut	Developing of Integrated Nutrient Supply and Management system for Soil Fertility and Productivity of sugarcane.
1993	Dr. Jawaharlal Sehgal Director National Bureau of Soil Survey & Land Use Planning, Nagpur-400 010	Developed a 3-tier resource mapping methodology using image interpretation, field surveys and cartography. Soil resource mopping and agro-ecological zoning have provided rationale to take land use planning decisions for increased agricultural production on sustainable basis.
1992	Dr. Shanti Lal Mehta Head Division of Biochemistry Indian Agricultural , Research Institute, New Delhi 110012	Significant research contributions have been made in the areas of Genetic Engineering of Lathyrus sativus to obtain low toxin cultivar molecular mechanism of storage protein biosynthesis in high lysine cereals, Co-sensitivity of cytochrome oxides differences in plants and nutrition.
1991	Dr. Raj Mani Pandey	For his pioneering work in tissue culture especially pertaining to the cultivation of papayas of a known sex type is one of the most speedy and cost-effective methods to date.
1990	Dr. Yash Pal Abrol	Elucidated the biosynthesis of a number of cyanogenic compounds.
1989	Dr. Anupam Varma	For developing technologies for quick and reliable diagnosis of viral and mycoplasmal diseases (VMDs) of crop plants.
1988	Dr. G.S. Sekhon Director Potash Research Inst. Of India Sector 19, Gurgaon	Studies on soil potassium, evaluation of phosphorus Fertilizers, soil testing, plant analysis, environmental pollution leading to optimum use of fertilizers and nutrients.
1987	Dr. S.M Patel Director Indian Institute of low Co-operative Management	Improvement of existing agricultural pump sets. Development of low resistance foot valve for lift irrigation.
1986	Dr. S.C. Mohapatara Project Co-ordinator (Poultry Breeding) Central Avian Research Institute, Izatnagar	Poultry Breeding commercial exploitation of IL-I-80 Strain.
1986	Dr. Dalbir Singh College of Agriculture PAU, Ludhiana;	Poultry Breeding leading to commercial exploitation of two strains PB - I and Pb - II.
1985	Dr. Inder Pal Abrol Director Central Soil Salinity Research Institute Karnal 132001. (Haryana)	Research and Development of Salt affected soils. Reclamation and utilization of Alkali soils for agriculture and agro forestry.
1984	Dr. S. Bhaskaran Hindustan Level Research Centre, Bombay 400099	Plant Tissue Culture-application to Coconut plantation, cardamon, sugarcane and tomato.
1983	Dr. Akhtar Hussain Director Central Institute of Medical & Aromatic Plants Lucknow	Development of Agro Technology including disease control, cultivation and processing of Medicinal plants and essential oil bearing plants.
1983	Dr. B.R. Tyagi Scientist, E-1 Plant Breeding Centre Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants Lucknow	Development of Agro Technology including disease control, cultivation and processing of Medicinal plants and essential oil bearing plants.
1982	Dr. S.K. Sinha Professor of Eminence Plant Physiology, Indian Agricultural research Institute New Delhi	Cultivation practices of pulses and wheat selection of mutants’ responsive irrigation photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation in pulses.
1981	Dr. B.H. Katarki Sr. Scientist (Cotton) Agricultural Research Station Dharwad (Karnataka State)	Cotton research leading to development and release to varalaxmi, Jayalaxmi, Soubhagya and DB-3-12 varieties and various hybrids.
1980	Dr. E.A. Siddiq Division of Genetics Indian Agricultural Research Institute New Delhi	Physiochemical and genetic aspects of rice quality leading to quick maturing varieties of basmati rice.
1979	Dr. N. Ganga Prasad Rao dry land cropping and Head National Research Centre for Sorghum Hyderabad	The improvement of oilseeds, Pulses and discovery of apomixes in sorghum.
1978	Dr. S.H. Patil Scientific Officer Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Bombay	Development of 20 Trombay groundnut varieties with use of mutations giving more oil content and higher yields per hectare.
1978	Dr. G.S. Venkatraman Project Co-ordinator (Algae) Indian Agricultural Research Institute New Delhi	Algology-biological Nitrogen fixation by blue-green Algae and its utilization for rice cultivation.
1977	Dr. C.T. Patel Research Project Co-ordinator I.C.M.F. Surat	Evolution of varied types of cotton and Hybrid-4 variety in particular.
1977	Shri M.J. Balkrishna Rao Geneticist Botanist central Rice Research Institute Cuttack (Orissa)	Development of varieties of rice like Padma, Krishna and Bala.
1976	Dr. G.J. Patel Project Co-ordinator (Tobacco), Agricultural University Anand	High Yield hybrid variety of bidi tobacco.