Rajendra Singh Paroda

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rdf:langString Rajendra Singh Paroda

rdf:langString Rajendra Singh Paroda

rdf:langString Dr. Rajendra Singh Paroda (born 1942 in Ajmer, Rajasthan) is an Indian agricultural scientist. He was the former Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and Secretary, Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE), Government of India. He was the general president of the Indian Science Congress Association during 2000-2001 and the president of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) from 1998 to 2000. He was elected as the first chairman of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), FAO, Rome from 1998 to 2001. He served as an executive secretary of the Asia Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI) based at FAO Regional Office, Bangkok since 1992. He also served as the chairman, board of trustees, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, member of IRRI Board, Los Banos, Philippines and was a member of Advisory Council of Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), Canberra, and the Commonwealth Agriculture Bureau International (CABI), London. In 1996, he organised the second International Crop Science Congress in New Delhi. In 2001, he Presided over the Indian Science Congress held at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, which was inaugurated by the then Prime Minister of India, Shri Atal Behari Bajpai. In 2012, he organised the first Global Conference on Women in Agriculture (GCWA) in New Delhi which was attended by the then President of India, Mrs Pratibha Patil. He served as chairman of the organising committee of the Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD 2) organised jointly by GFAR and CGIAR in October, 2013 at Punta del Este, Uruguay. As Executive Secretary, APAARI, he had organised by now more than twenty regional expert consultations on thematic areas of high regional importance.