Dr. S. Vinodkumar from TNAU bags the prestigious, National Jawaharlal Nehru Award from Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi

ICAR institutes the prestigious, Jawaharlal Nehru Award for P.G. Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Agricultural and Allied Sciences. Since 1969, the award is conferred annually, in order to promote high quality doctoral thesis research.

Coimbatore: ICAR institutes the prestigious, Jawaharlal Nehru Award for P.G. Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Agricultural and Allied Sciences. Since 1969, the award is conferred annually, in order to promote high quality doctoral thesis research.

It consists of 18 awards with 2 awards in each of the 9 categories including, Crop sciences, Animal sciences, Natural resource management, Crop protection, Fisheries, Horticulture, Agricultural engineering, Social sciences and Biotechnology. Each award consists of Rs.50,000/- in cash, citation, certificate and gold polished, silver medal.

Every year the list of awardees is announced during the ICAR Foundation Day ceremony. The 92nd Foundation Day and Award Ceremony of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research was organized on July 16, 2020 through Video Conferencing.

The ICAR awards for the year 2019 was announced through live stream in the presence of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Minister - Narendra Singh Tomar and Ministers of State for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare – Parshottam Rupala and Kailash Choudhary, Dr.Trilochan Mohapatra , Secretary (DARE) & Director General (ICAR) and other panel members.



Dr. Vinod Kumar Selvaraj representing Tamil Nadu Agricultural University was awarded with the ICAR-Jawaharlal Nehru award under the 'Crop Protection' category for his research work on 'Emergence of tobacco streak virus infecting cotton: Investigations on symptom expression, transmission, spread and management',under the Chairmanship ofDr. S. Nakkeeran, Professor (Plant Pathology), Department of Plant Pathology, TNAU, Coimbatore.

He has published his research works in peer reviewed high impact journals. The awardee was congratulated by the Vice Chancellor, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University,Coimbatore.

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