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Our World Famous Indian Agricultural Scientist The Father
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our own Indian Agricultural Scientists have to say ,to
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Prof.
M S Swaminathan has been acclaimed by TIME
magazine as one of the twenty most influential
Asians of the 20th century and one of the only
three from India, the other two being Mahatma
Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. He has been described
by the United Nations Environment Programme as
"the Father of Economic Ecology" and
by Javier Perez de Cuellar, Secretary General
of the United Nations, as "a living legend
who will go into the annals of history as a world
scientist of rare distinction". He was Chairman
of the UN Science Advisory Committee set up in
1980 to take follow-up action on the Vienna Plan
of Action. He has also served as Independent Chairman
of the FAO Council and President of the International
Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural
Resources.
A plant geneticist by training, Prof. Swaminathan's
contributions to the agricultural renaissance
of India have led to his being widely referred
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leader of the green revolution movement. His advocacy
of sustainable agriculture leading to an ever-green revolution
makes him an acknowledged world leader in the field of
sustainable food security. The International Association
of Women and Development conferred on him the first international
award for significant contributions to promoting the knowledge,
skill, and technological empowerment of women in agriculture
and for his pioneering role in mainstreaming gender considerations
in agriculture and rural development. Prof. Swaminathan
was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership
in 1971, the Albert Einstein World Science Award in 1986,
the first World Food Prize in 1987, Volvo Environment
Prize in 1999, and the Franklin D Roosevelt Four Freedoms
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Swaminathan is a Fellow of many of the leading scientific
academies of India and the world, including the Royal
Society of London and the US National Academy of Sciences.
He has received 43 honorary doctorate degrees from universities
around the world. Recently, he has been elected as the
President of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World
Affairs. He currently holds the UNESCO Chair in Ecotechnology
at the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation in Chennai
(Madras), India. |
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Important Presentations given by Prof. M. S. Swaminathan
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UNICEF's
Regional Management Team Meeting, New Delhi, November
14, 2003, Development Challenges in South Asia: Implications
for Children and women |
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Information
and Communication Technologies for Poverty Reduction :
When, Where and How?, Harvard Faculty Club, Boston
19 September, 2003 |
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Dorothy
Hodgkin Memorial Lecture, Science and Achieving the Goal
of a Hunger-free World, La Jolla, USA, 14 August 2002 |
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Fighting
Hunger : From Known-how to Do-how World Food Summit
: Five Years Later in Rome, 11 June 2002 |
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Technology
for, by and with the Poor, Ramon Magsaysay Awardees'
Meeting in Jaipur, 2 November, 2001 |
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International
Seminar organised by Jacques Maritain with the technical
support of FAO, The Right to Food : A Challenge for
Peace and Development in the 21st Century, Rome, September
17, 2001 |
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17th
International Congress on Nutrition, Nutrition in the
Third Millennium : Countries in Transition , Vienna,
27-31 August |
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University
of Massachusetts, Boston, Commencement Address, June 2,
2001 |
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Convocation
address at The Tamil Nadu Dr M G R Medical University
Eleventh Convocation - Chennai, 28 March 2001. |
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Some more of our Famous Scientists from our country have
to say…………….. |
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| Biswas,
B.C and Das, Soumitradas; Role of Fertilizer in Doubling
Oilseed Productivity in India. |
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News, 1999. Vol.44(10) 23-26 p. |
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of fertilizer in improving foodgrains production is well
documented. Oilseeds, an energy rich group of crops, are
mainly grown in energy starved rainfed conditions. Presently,
oilseed crops grown in 26 million hectares in India to
produced about 25 million tones of oilseeds removed nearly
3 million tones of major nutrients (NPK) alongwith sizable
amount of secondary (S etc.) and micronutrients (Zn, B,
Mo etc.). Very little amount of fertilizer nutrient
is added in oilseed crops against a colossal removal of
3 million tones per annum. This is a serious soil health
hazard, which needs urgent attention of all concerned.
The paper deals with the role that fertilizer nutrient
can play in doubling the oilseeds productivity in the
country. |
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Valuable Agricultural Statistical data of India from the
archives say………. |
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all India basis, soils are deficient in different micronutrients
as follows: 47% ZN, 20% B, 18% Mo, 12% Fe, 4% Mn and 5%
Cu. The current requirement of micronutrients in India
is 1,10,523 tonnes per year. The demand for micronutrients
would further increase to 1,90,227 tonnes in 2025 AD.
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increasing micronutrient deficiencies, especially in intensively
cultivated areas, application of the required micronutrients
has become essential to sustain high productivity. But
the efficiency of applied inorganic micronutrients is
rather low due to fixation and other soil reactions. One
way of increasing the efficiency is to use the chelated
forms. Organically chelating the micronutrients with the
composted manures may be a good alternative to reduce
the cost and make the micronutrient application wide.
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