Wednesday, July 18, 2012

CIPHET Scientist Dr. S. N. Jha Received Highest Award of ICAR

Ludhiana, July 17:





Dr. S. N. Jha, Head of Division of Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology (CIPHET), Ludhiana, received the highest prize named Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) for his pioneering research work on nondestructive methods of food quality evaluation and Post-harvest Technology and Management of makhana processing, informed Dr. U. S. Shivhare, Director CIPHET, Ludhiana.



The award consisted of a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh and citation. Dr Jha received the award from honorable Union Minister of Agriculture and Food Processing Industries Shree Sharad Pawar, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing Industries and parliamentary affairs Shri Harish Rawat and Union Minister of state for Agriculture and Food Processing Industries Dr. Charan Das Mahant during the 84th foundation day celebration of ICAR on the 16th July 2012 in New Delhi.



Bharat Ratna Dr. A.P. J. Abdul Kalam, the former president of India, delivered the foundation day lecture and congratulated the award winners. Dr. Shivhare added that getting this award by CIPHET scientist is a matter of pride for the Institute. Dr. S. N. Jha has developed number of technologies such as computation of maturity index and prediction of eating quality of mango, freshness index and overall quality index of brinjal and apple, respectively besides improved evaporative cooled storage structure and transport freight containers for fruits and vegetables. Dr. Jha said that getting this award give a sense of satisfaction with added responsibility for doing further work on wider perspective of Indian agriculture.
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