MS Swaminathan, Father of India’s Green Revolution, passes away

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Chennai: Agricultural scientist and agronomist MS Swaminathan, known as the father of India’s Green Revolution, passed away on Thursday. He was 98. He breathed his last at his residence in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Born in 1925 in Tamil Nadu’s Kumbakonam, Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan began his higher studies at Thiruvananthapuram Maharaja’s College (today’s University College) in the 1940s. He secured graduation in zoology and later joined the Agricultural College in Coimbatore for further studies.
In 1950, he joined the Plant Breeding Institute of Cambridge University School of Agriculture and acquired his doctorate. Following this, he accepted a post-doctoral research associateship at the University of Wisconsin. He returned to India in 1954 and joined the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi as Assistant Cytogeneticist in October that year.
Swaminathan has been honoured with several prominent awards throughout his career including the Bhatnagar Award (1961), Magsaysay Award (1971), World Food Prize (1987), Franklin Roosevelt Award (2000), Kerala Sasthra Award (2021) among others. He is survived by three daughters.

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