B Dayakar Rao

B Dayakar Rao
Born 15 May 1963
Warangal District, Telangana, India
Occupation Principal Scientist, Indian Institute of Millets Research
Years active Since 1992
Known for Millets research, Economics & Value Addition
Website http://www.millets.res.in/sstaff/DrDayakarRaoB.php

B Dayakar Rao[1] is an Agricultural Economics scientist, who works as Principal Scientist at the Indian Institute of Millets Research.

Biography

Rao was born in Warangal. He obtained both his Bachelors and master's degree (Agri. Economics) from PJTSAU, Hyderabad and obtained a PhD (1991) from NDRI, Karnal. He worked briefly at the Indian Institute of Horticultural Research Institute (IIHR), Bangalore, where he worked on Betel vine, before he joined IIMR, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad in 1993.

Awards and honours

Rao is a Fellow of National fellow of Dairy sciences.[2] He received an outstanding contribution award for value chain projects undertaken by ICAR (NAIP) and Best Food Processor Award by FICCI, Hyderabad in 2014. He has more than 50 publications in national and international journals and author of 12 book/book chapters. He holds the position as PI of NAIF-ABI project and PI of Centre of Excellence on Sorghum processing and Value addition[3] under NFSM sponsored by DAC, GoI.

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