Background
Doctor.Santhanam was born on 31 July 1925 at Tiruvarur in Tamil Nadu.
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Doctor.Santhanam was born on 31 July 1925 at Tiruvarur in Tamil Nadu.
He graduated from the Agricultural College, Coimbatore in the year 1946.
He had served as a short term consultant to Vietnam as well.He is Chairman of the Expert Review team of the Southern India Mills Cotton Development and Research Association for November 2009 – March 2010. He is an author/co-author of over 110 publications including books and book chapters on cotton. Education and Personal He earned the Masters and Doctorate degrees by research in Plant Breeding and Genetics, from the Madras University.
Starting his professional career at the Cotton Breeding station of the same college, he had an illustrious professional career as a cotton research scientist with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (Indian Council of Agricultural Research).He was the first National Coordinator for the All India Coordinated Cotton Improvement Project under Indian Council of Agricultural Research (1967-1975).
During his tenure, he had established a solid foundation for cooperative research among all the cotton growing states of India. In recognition of the work done by the cotton group headed by him, Indian Council of Agricultural Research conferred the council"s very first award for team research to them in 1975.
Doctor.Santhanam served the Food and Agriculture Organisation in 1975 to 1983 as longtime resident expert on Cotton and Project Team Leader in Myanmar. He served them as short term consultant (Senior Advisor) in Myanmar and Vietnam during 1984 to 1987.