Badri narayan barwale biography of williams

Laureate Spotlight: Dr. B.R. Barwale 1998, India

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 March 12, 2010 - - Known as the father of the commercial Indian seed industry, Badrinarayan Ramulal (B.R.) Barwale has held a lifelong conviction that technological innovation is the key not only to improving the quantity and quality of food crops but also to improving human health and well-being.

The 1998 World Food Prize Laureate is one of the pioneers of the green revolution and agricultural biotechnology in his country.

As a young farmer in the late 1950s, Dr. Barwale was growing crops with higher and higher yields as he began using innovative irrigation and other advanced techniques. He shared the seeds from his improved okra, hybrid corn, and sorghum with other farmers, and his successes led him to work with the Rockefeller Foundation