C. L. Laxmipathi Gowda

Deputy Director-General

Institution
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Country
India

Field
Agricultural Sciences

Gowda, deputy director-general of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), received the 2014 Sano Touzaburo Special Prize—“Asia’s World Food Prize”—for developing chickpea cultivars with high yield and resistance to diseases and pests.

(Photo: ICRISAT)


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