Education
He has studied the production of rice and other crops in Nigeria, the Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, as well as India.
He has studied the production of rice and other crops in Nigeria, the Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, as well as India.
Born and educated in India, he taught in various agricultural universities in India and went on to study in Germany. He has written a textbook on plant breeding, published by Oxford University Press in 1982 and reprinted 4 times through 1993, and a comprehensive work on rice varieties, published by Food and Agriculture Organization in 2001. He founded on 8 September 1998, and is Chairman of the Participatory Rural Development Foundation (PRDF).
Formerly he was the coordinator of the International Network for the Genetic Evaluation of Rice (INGER).