Showing posts with label World Food Prize 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Food Prize 2014. Show all posts

Wednesday, 18 June 2014

India- Born Padma Shree Dr Sanjaya Rajaram Wins 2014 World Food Prize Laureate


Padma Shree Dr Sanjaya Rajaram
Kenneth M. Quinn, President of the world Food Prize Foundation today (18th June 2014) announced that The World Food Prize Borlaug Centennial Laureate – born in India and a citizen of Mexico – is Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram.

The 2014 World Food Prize Laureate is an individual from India who worked closely with Dr. Borlaug in Mexico and who then carried forward and extended his work, breaking new ground with his own achievements. As the head of CIMMYT’s wheat-breeding program for several decades, our Laureate developed 480 high-yielding disease- and stress-resistant