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B.R. Barwale
Badrinarayan Ramulal Barwale (1931–2017) was an Indian farmer and seed entrepreneur who founded Mahyco, India's first private seed company, and won the 1998 World Food Prize.
Ernst Laur
Ernst Laur (1871–1964) was a Swiss agronomist, professor at ETH Zurich, and longtime director of the Swiss Farmers' Association, called the Father of Swiss agriculture.
Farmer
Farmer: a person who operates a farm, also called a farm operator. Covers family farms and smallholders (570 million farms, 90% family-run), US producer demographics, income, and technology adoption.
Gurdev Khush
Gurdev Singh Khush, born in 1935, is an Indian-born plant geneticist and rice breeder who spent 35 years at the International Rice Research Institute, developing IR36 and IR64.
Indian Agricultural Research Institute (भारतीय कृषि अनुसंधान संस्थान)
Indian Agricultural Research Institute (भारतीय कृषि अनुसंधान संस्थान), IARI or Pusa Institute, India's foremost agricultural research institute and a Deemed University under ICAR, founded 1905 at Pusa, Bihar, moved to New Delhi in 1936, key Green Revolution contributor.
Indian Council of Agricultural Research (भारतीय कृषि अनुसंधान परिषद)
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (भारतीय कृषि अनुसंधान परिषद), formerly the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research, coordinates agricultural research, extension, and education across India.
International Rice Research Institute
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), founded 1960 in Los Baños, Philippines, by the Ford and Rockefeller foundations; nonprofit rice-science institute whose 1966 semidwarf variety IR8, the 'miracle rice,' launched the Green Revolution in rice.
Jethro Tull (agriculturist)
Jethro Tull (1674–1741) was an English agriculturist from Berkshire who developed a horse-drawn seed drill around 1701 and wrote Horse-Hoing Husbandry (1733), an emblematic work of the British Agricultural Revolution.
John D. Axtell
John D. Axtell (1934–2000) was an American plant geneticist and sorghum breeder at Purdue University, known for improving sorghum's nutritional quality and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1982.
Kees de Wit
Kees de Wit, full name Cornelis Teunis de Wit, was a Dutch theoretical crop scientist at Wageningen whose crop growth models, including ELCROS and WOFOST, are used worldwide; he won the 1984 Wolf Prize.