Scientists awarded for Outstanding Interdisciplinary Team Research in Horticulture

By admin - July 18, 2016 0

NEW DELHI: Dr. A.T. Sadashiva and the team members Dr. Peter Hanson, Dr. M. Krishna Reddy, Dr. Girija Ganeshan, Dr. C. Gopalakrishnan, Dr. K. Madhavi Reddy, Dr. S. Shankara Hebbar, Dr. T.H. Singh & Dr. K.V. Ravi Shankar were conferred with the ICAR Award for Outstanding Interdisciplinary Team Research in Agricultural and Allied Sciences (Horticultural Science) 2013-14 in 88^th ICAR Foundation Day and ICAR Award ceremony which was organized at Vigyan Bhawan here on Saturday.

Awards were presented to awardees by Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare and Panchayati Raj, GOI, New Delhi. The award was selected for the team work on the “Development of triple disease resistant tomato F₁hybrids Arka Rakshak & Arka Samrat and their successful adoption”.