The ICAR – National Research Centre for Banana has conferred the life time achievement award on Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Vice Chancellor N. Kumar.
A release from the University said the award, presented during the International Conference on Banana – 2020 - was in recognition of his contribution to banana industry through systematic banana breeding programme, which started at the University in 1998.
The programme led to the development of synthetic hybrids – H 212, NPH 02-01, H 531 among others.
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