Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award was instituted by ICAR in 1956 to provide incentives to research workers in India and to recognize their outstanding research work. Nine Awards are given biennially in seven disciplines of agriculture and allied sciences to a scientist who has made outstanding research contributions.[1]
The award is given in fields of :
The award consists of a Gold medal, a citation, and a cash prize of 300,000 Indian Rupees.
This award is given by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).
This award is named after Indian freedom fighter and politician Rafi Ahmed Kidwai.
Following is list of the recipients of the Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award:
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| Year | Name of Awardees | Organization | Remark | Reference |
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| 1968 | ||||
| 1968 | Dr Pushkarnath | Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI) | [1] | |
| 1971 | ||||
| 1971 | Dr Triloki Nath Khoshoo | Government of India, Department of Environment | For research programmes on pollution effects on plants, prescription of air pollution, soil, noise and water pollution. | [2] |
| 1972 | ||||
| 1972–1973 | Dr T.N Ramachandra Rao | CFTRI,Mysore | ||
| 1978-1979 | ||||
| 1978–1979 | Dr Subrahmaniam Nagarajan | Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) | [3] | |
| 1987 | ||||
| 1987 | Dr M. S. Aulakh | Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) | [4] | |
| 1995 | ||||
| 1995 | Dr. E. A. Siddiq | Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) | [5] | |
| 1996 | ||||
| 1996 | Dr. J. C. Katyal | Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA) | [6] | |
| 1996 | Dr. K. Aruna | Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University (ARAU) | For outstanding contributions to research in Animal Nutrition. | [7] |
| 1996 | Dr. V. M. Mayande | Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA) | ||
| 2000 | ||||
| 2000 | Dr G. S. Shekhawat | Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI) | [8] | |
| 2001-2002 | ||||
| 2003 | Dr V. Sriramachandra Murthy | Division of Demersal Fisheries, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) |
For his outstanding research in the field of marine fisheries development. | [9], [10] |
| 2003-2004 | ||||
| 2003–2004 | Dr. Fasi-Uz Zaman | Division of Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) |
For his contributions to plant breeding. | [11] |
| 2003–2004 | Dr. (Ms) P. Dureja | Division of Agricultural Chemicals, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) |
For her significant work in the field of agroche-micals. | [12] |
| 2005-2006 | ||||
| 2005-06 | Dr B. Mishra | Directorate of Wheat Research (DWR) | For his contributions to rice and wheat research in the country. | [13], |
| 2005-06 | Dr I. Karunasagar | Karnataka Veterinary, Animal & Fisheries Sciences University (KVAFSU) | For his Research that has led to improvement in fish and shrimp health management and assessment of food safety. | [16] |
| 2005-06 | Dr. Nagendra Kumar Singh | NRCPB, IARI New Delhi | For his contributions to biotechnology in india | |
| 2005-06 | Prof. Aditya Kumar Misra | Project Directorate on Cattle (ICAR) | For his outstanding research contribution in Animal Sciences. | [17] |
| 2006-2007 | ||||
| 2006-07 | Dr S. K. Pandey | Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI) | For his outstanding achievements and contribution in diversification of potato production, storage and utilisation and improving productivity and profitability of small farmers. | [18],[19] |
| 2007-2008 | ||||
| 2007–2008 | Dr. K. C. Bansal | National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, Pusa, New Delhi | Dr. Bansal developed transgenic wheat, mustard and tomato with enhanced tolerance to drought, salinity and cold stress. In addition, he has developed transgenic tomato with extended shelf life to save a huge post-harvest loss. | [20] |
| 2007–2008 | Dr. S. K. Rao | JNKV Jabalpur | Dr. Rao played a pivotal role in reorganizing crop improvement research and was responsible for the development of several crop varieties, infrastructure for maintenance breeding, diversified nucleus and breeder seed producing systems. | [21] |
| 2007–2008 | Dr. P. S. Minhas | Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) | The scientific contributions of Dr. Minhas have led to a better understanding of soil-water-plant interactions in saline environment and development of management strategies for the judicious use of low quality waters. | [22] |
| 2007–2008 | Dr. Sushil Kumar Kamra | CSSRI, Karnal | Dr. Kamra has made significant contributions in developing subsurface drainage technology for amelioration of waterlogged saline irrigated lands in India. He has developed a 2-dimensional finite element model that can make long term predictions on desalinization of soil and salt load of subsurface drainage water | [23] |
| 2007–2008 | Dr. Gaya Prasad | CCSHAU Hisar | Dr. Prasad studied the dynamics of bluetongue disease in India. His pioneering work on bluetongue virus (BTV) epidemiology, viral antigenic and genomic diversity, cell tropism, molecular diagnostics and vector identification laid the foundation for development of vaccine based on Indian strains of the virus. | [24] |
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