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The National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) [1] is a Government of India funded agency, established in 1990, is a research platform in the fields of crop husbandry, animal husbandry, fisheries and agro-forestry. It acts as a research base for agro-scientists to formulate their advice to the policy makers in discussion with the ...
The UK's National Agricultural Advisory Service (NAAS) was established in 1946 as the advisory and research arm of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) due to harsh food rationing of World War II that continued in the UK into the early 1950s.
He is the president of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences. [2] An alumnus of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences of the New York State University and a holder of a doctoral degree in genetics, he is a former assistance director of the Food and Agriculture Organization and a former regional representative for Asia-Pacific ...
The creation of USDA's Crop Reporting Board in 1905 (now called the Agricultural Statistics Board) was another landmark in the development of a nationwide statistical service for agriculture. A USDA reorganization in 1961 led to the creation of the Statistical Reporting Service, known today as National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). [1]
Panjab Singh is the first and incumbent chancellor of Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, and the president of Foundation for Advancement of Agriculture and Rural development (FAARD Foundation).
The National Academy of Agricultural Sciences honored him again with the NAAS Recognition Award in 2008 [14] and he was chosen for the VASVIK Industrial Research Award in 2011. [16] He received one more award in 2011 in the form of ICAR Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award [ 3 ] and he received the NASI - Reliance Platinum Jubilee Award in 2013.
Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, formerly known as Rajendra Agricultural University, is a public central agriculture university under the Department of Agricultural Research and Education of Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and is recognised as Institute of National Importance by government of India.
Known for his contributions to the field of food and agricultural biotechnology, he is an elected fellow of Indian National Science Academy (INSA), [4] National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) [5] and National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS). [6]