{"id":261998,"date":"2023-09-27T19:38:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T14:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=261998"},"modified":"2023-09-27T21:06:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T15:36:16","slug":"bihana-didi-wins-borlaug-award-for-introducing-drought-tolerant-rice-in-odisha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bihana-didi-wins-borlaug-award-for-introducing-drought-tolerant-rice-in-odisha\/","title":{"rendered":"Bihana Didi\u2019 wins Borlaug Award for introducing drought-tolerant rice in Odisha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cBihana Didi\u2019 wins Borlaug Award for introducing drought-tolerant rice in Odisha\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in<\/span><b> \u201cHindu Businessline\u201d on 26th September 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian agriculture scientist Swati Nayak has become the third Indian agriculture scientist to win the prestigious Norman E Borlaug Award for 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The other two include Aditi Mukherjee (2012) and Mahalingam Govindaraj (2022).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the Norman<\/b><b> E Borlaug Award?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Norman E. Borlaug Award is presented every year by the World Food Prize Foundation.It is presented in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">memory of the Nobel awardee Dr. Norman Borlaug,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This award recognizes exceptional, science-based achievement in international agriculture and food production by an individual under the age of 40.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Why was Swati Nayak given <\/b><b>Norman<\/b><b> E Borlaug Award?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Swati Nayak <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is credited with the successful dissemination and adoption of more than 20 climate-resilient and bio-fortified rice varieties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among these are \u2018<\/span><b>Sahbhagi Dhan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019, a drought-tolerant variety suitable for hilly uplands, and \u2018<\/span><b>BINA Dhan-11\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is flood-tolerant.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cBihana Didi\u2019 wins Borlaug Award for introducing drought-tolerant rice in Odisha\u201d published in \u201cHindu Businessline\u201d on 26th September 2023. What is the News? Indian agriculture scientist Swati Nayak has become the third Indian agriculture scientist to win the prestigious Norman E Borlaug Award for 2023. The other&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bihana-didi-wins-borlaug-award-for-introducing-drought-tolerant-rice-in-odisha\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bihana Didi\u2019 wins Borlaug Award for introducing drought-tolerant rice in Odisha<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[11872,10720],"class_list":["post-261998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-hindu-businessline","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}