Dr. Ramesh Chandra Srivastava took over the charge of Chairman of this Farmerface Group on 21st September, 2022. He was born on 1st July 1956 at Allahabad and completed his schooling education from Allahabad. He obtained his graduation degree in Agricultural Engineering from Allahabad Agricultural Institute, Allahabad. He obtained his Master’s and Ph. D degree in Soil & Water Conservation Engineering during the year 1978 and 1993, respectively from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
During his service career of about 46 years in the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), he held several prestigious positions viz. Vice-chancellor of Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agriculture University, Pusa, Samastipur (Bihar), Principal Scientist and Programme Leader (2011 onward), Director, CARI, Port Blair (2006 – 2011), Principal Scientist and Programme Leader (1998-2006), Senior Scientist (1983-1998) and Scientist (1978-1983).
He has expertise of converting rainfed agriculture to irrigated agriculture through water resource development & management. With technologies developed by me. we could convert a totally rainfed area in a two-crop irrigated area. The biggest joy of working with this technology was changing of a hunter tribal in a cultivator growing rice, pulses, and potato.
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We are devoted to organic vegetable farming development,