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SKF Elixer India Pvt. Ltd., Moodbidri, has chosen B.K. Deva Rao, victor of Plant Genome Saviour Farmers’ Reward for 2020-21 and conservator of implicit 300 varieties of rice/paddy, from Mittabagilu village, Belthangady taluk successful Dakshina Kannada, for the archetypal Raithapeetha Award.
The grant carries ₹1 lakh successful prize money. It volition beryllium presented to him astatine a relation to beryllium held astatine Gaudhama workplace successful Muniyal, Karkala taluk successful Udupi territory connected February 20, 2026, according to G. Ramakrishna Achar, president of the company.
The institution has instituted the yearly award, starting from 2026, with the nonsubjective of ensuring that the country’s farmers person owed respect and that cultivation practices person encouragement, Mr. Achar, an cultivation entrepreneur, said successful a statement.
Despite the information that paddy cultivation is declining successful galore parts of Dakshina Kannada, 81-year-old Mr. Rao has continued to support respective paddy varieties. “Mr. Rao has not lone saved uncommon varieties that could person been mislaid to the transition of clip for the involvement of the adjacent generation, but has besides served arsenic a relation exemplary for others successful agriculture. To honour him and his noble life, we are conferring the archetypal Raithapeetha Award to him,” Mr. Achar said.
The grant presumption relation volition beryllium attended by Adrushya Kadasiddheshwar Swami of Siddhagiri Mutt, Kolhapur, Maharashtra and Nijalingeshwar Swami of Nidasesi Duradundeshwar Siddhasamsthana Mutt, Belagavi.
The ‘Krishi Mandala’ programme, meant to make consciousness connected workplace practices and promote the young procreation to instrumentality up farming, volition beryllium organised connected the aforesaid day.
“In our country, a husbandman should person arsenic overmuch oregon adjacent much respect than a bundle engineer, doctor, oregon businessman. An situation indispensable beryllium created for farmers to unrecorded with dignity. I person created a exemplary workplace called Gaudhama astatine Muniyalu to present agriculture to the children of the adjacent generation,” helium said.
