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Dr. Gurdev Khush, celebrated rice breeder, donates papers to UC Davis Library
Dr. Gurdev Khush, celebrated rice breeder, donates papers to UC Davis Library Kevin Miller ,May 8, 2023 Colleagues have referred to him as the “most decorated agricultural scientist in the world.” UC Davis adjunct faculty emeritus Dr. Gurdev Singh Khush is a world-renowned rice breeder and geneticist who won the prestigious World Food Prize in […]
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Dr Gurdev Singh Khush Foundation Recognized Excellence in Agricultural Sciences
Dr G. S. Khush Foundation recognizes excellence in agricultural sciences City Air News March 19, 2024 The prestigious Dr Gurdev Singh Khush Foundation for Advancement of Agricultural Sciences once again celebrated excellence in agricultural innovation at its Annual Awards Ceremony held at PAU’s PAL Auditorium. Dr Gurdev Singh Khush, renowned as the granddaddy of paddy […]
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Institute, Museum Dedicated to World Food Prize Laureate GS Khush Inaugurated at PAU
‘Father of Rice Revolution’: Institute, Museum dedicated to World Food Prize Laureate GS Khush inaugurated at PAU October 17, 2023, Express News Service Dr Khush, the developer of world’s most grown rice varieties and having his roots in Rurkee village of Jalandhar, had graduated from PAU and later moved to the US as he went […]
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Punjab American Heritage Society
Dr. Khush was the Guest of Honor at the 27th Punjabi American festival on May 28th, and he was presented with Life Time Achievement Award by the Punjabi American Heritage Society. Professor Gurdev Singh Khush, a world-renowned Agronomist and Geneticist considered as founding father of the Green Revolution, that led to the ending of hunger […]
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Dr. Khush Honored by the UCD Chancellor May
Friday, June 9, 2023 UC Davis’s first-ever Punjabi Week Celebrated The activities, coordinated by the UC Davis Punjabi Club, connected students to their heritage and spread cultural awareness By RUMA POUDELL — [email protected] Davis is situated in the heart of the first South Asian community in the United States. Most of the South Asian migrants […]
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Symposium in Honor and Memory of Dr. D. S. Brar
The Dr GS Khush Foundation in collaboration with the Punjab Agricultural University organized a symposium in honor and memory of prominent geneticist Dr DS Brar at the Dr Manmohan Singh Auditorium here today. The two-day symposium, ‘Transforming the Green Revolution Hub of India: Innovations in Crop Breeding, Resource Management and Policy’, focused on the enhancement […]
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Meet the Blockbuster ‘Rice Man’
Meet the blockbuster ‘rice man’ who fed the world No food crop in history has been planted in as much area as the varieties developed by Gurdev Singh Khush, the world’s most prolific, and perhaps greatest, rice breeder by Harish Damodaran. He’s to rice, what the ‘Father of the Green Revolution’, Norman Borlaug, was to […]
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Panelists and Participants at the Symposium
The two-day symposium aimed at transforming the green revolution hub of India, organized by Dr GS Khush Foundation and PAU, in honor of Dr Darshan Singh Brar, concluded here today. In accordance with the theme, ‘Innovations in Resource Management, the keynote speakers, Dr. Suresh Kumar Chaudhry, Deputy Director General, Natural Resource Management, ICAR and Dr […]
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My Miracle Rice
I worked on rice breeding for 35 years and developed more than 300 high-yielding rice varieties, which came to be known as miracle rice. These were widely adopted and planted all over the world. In India, this gave impetus to the Green Revolution. From being food insecure and on the verge of famine in the […]
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