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Krishnaswamy Ramiah MBE (15 April 1892 – 3 August 1988) was an Indian agricultural scientist, geneticist, parliamentarian and the founder director of Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, credited with introducing systematic hybridisation programmes in rice breeding in India.
(CRRI) was setup on 23 April 1946 at Bidhyadharpur, Cuttack, Odisha with an experimental farm land of 60 hectares provided by Government of Orissa. Dr. K. Ramiah, an eminent rice breeder, as its founder Director. Subsequently, in 1966, the administrative control of the institute was transferred to the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).
Krishnaswami Ramiah. Krishnaswamy Ramiah MBE (15 April 1892 – 3 August 1988) was an Indian agricultural scientist, geneticist, parliamentarian and the founder director of Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI), Cuttack, credited with introducing systematic hybridisation programmes in rice breeding in India.The Government of India honoured him ...
Ramiah took over as the founder Director of that Institute at Cuttack in Orissa and Biographical Memoirs served in this capacity for several years (1946-1951).
Dr. Krishnaswami Ramiah, a world renowned rice breeder and geneticist expired on August 3, 1988 at the age of 96. He was born in 1892. He began his scientific career in 1914 when he joined the staff of the Paddy Breeding Station, Coimbatore, He was the first scientist in India to begin the systematic hybridization program in rice.
Krishnaswamy Ramiah MBE (15 April 1892 – 3 August 1988) was an Indian agricultural scientist, geneticist, parliamentarian and the founder director of Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, credited with introducing systematic hybridisation programmes in rice breeding in India.
No wonder then that Ramiah was selected to be the Founder Director of the Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI) in Cuttack, Odisha. This was in the year 1946 and just 20 years later, CRRI was brought under the umbrella of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR).
