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Dr K G Padma Kumar had worked closely with Dr Swaminathan in framing the Kuttanad package.
The demand has been mostly coming from the farmers’ community in Central Kerala whose lives have been bettered by the intervention of M S Swaminathan.
Jacob Mathew, Managing Editor of Malayala Manorama, writes about the camaraderie he shared with MS Swaminathan.
For Swaminathan, who died Thursday, aged 98, Wayanad was a second home.
A Padmashri in 1967, a Padmabhushan in 1972, a Padmavibhushan in 1989, his admirers were waiting for him to get the Bharat Ratna too and also cross 100 years in age.
Swaminathan helped renovate an old school in his father's village with a generous Rs 50 lakh funding.
Most of these farmers never had an occasion to interact with the iconic agricultural scientist. Yet they are aware that the man, admired globally for his contribution towards developing high-yielding varieties of paddy, had shown them the way to prosperity
Swaminathan brought a social revolution through his policies to rescue India from the famine-like circumstances in the 1960s.
While designing the Rs-2,139-cr Kuttanad Package, arguably the largest financial package for a single region, Swaminathan envisioned a comprehensive restoration of the region’s unique, sensitive ecology.
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