Manmohan Attavar

Manmohan Attavar
Manmohan Attavar
Born	12 July 1932; Karkala Rajyotsava Award; Dr. M. H. Marigowda National Award; APEDA Award; ICA Golden Jubilee International Award; ISF Award
Website	www.indamseeds.com

Manmohan Attavar ( 12 July 1932 - 12 December 2017) was an Indian horticulturist, plant breeder, writer and the founder of Indo American Hybrid Seeds (IAHS), an organization engaged in scientific plant breeding and horticulture.

Ministry of Commerce and the Federation of International Seedsmen, Switzerland and has been a director of the National Horticultural Board.^[3] He has co-authored a book, Floriculture : technology, trades, and trends, which was published by Oxford and IBH Publishing House in 1994.^[4]

Attavar is a recipient of several awards such as Dr. M. H. Marigowda National Award, APEDA Award, Golden Jubilee International Award of the International Chrysanthemum Society, California and ISF Award.^[

Rajyotsava Prashasthi in 1991.^[1] He received the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award from the Government of India in 1998 for his contributions to the field of Horticulture.^[5]

Attavar was married to Mamtha who has since died, leaving him with their two children.[3] Subsequent to her death, he donated a women's theatre block to CSI Lombard Memorial Hospital, Udupi and the hospital has named the facility as Martha Mamatha Attavar Memorial Block.^[6]

References

India portal

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ISBN 9788189422653
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ISBN 9788120346772
.

^ ^a ^b "Managing Director - Indo - American Hybrid Seeds". Bangalore Best. 2015. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2015.

OCLC 30361863
.

^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

^ "Newly-Built Ladies Theatre Block to be Launched at CSI Lombard Memorial Hospital". Daiji World. 13 May 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2015.

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Recipients of Padma Shri in Science & Engineering
1950s

Kshitish Ranjan Chakravorty (1954)

Habib Rahman (1955)

Laxman Mahadeo Chitale (1957)

Ram Prakash Gehlote (1957)

Krishnaswami Ramiah (1957)

Bal Raj Nijhawan (1958)

Benjamin Peary Pal (1958)

Navalpakkam Parthasarthy (1958)

Surendranath Kar (1959)

Om Prakash Mathur (1959)

Homi Sethna (1959)

1960s

Anil Kumar Das (1960)

A. S. Rao (1960)

M. G. K. Menon (1961)

Brahm Prakash (1961)

Man Mohan Suri (1961)

Paramananda Acharya (1964)

Vishnu Madav Ghatage (1965)

Satish Dhawan (1966)

Maganbhai Ramchhodbhai Patel (1967)

Hermenegild Santapau (1967)

M. S. Swaminathan (1967)

Guduru Venkatachalam (1967)

Raja Ramanna (1968)

Nautam Bhatt (1969)

Amrik Singh Cheema (1969)

T. V. Mahalingam (1969)

1970s

P. R. Pisharoty (1970)

Moti Lal Dhar (1971)

Zafar Futehally (1971)

Devendra Lal (1971)

Charles Correa (1972)

N. Kesava Panikkar (1973)

Govind Swarup (1973)

Achyut Kanvinde (1974)

Suchitra Mitra (1974)

C. N. R. Rao (1974)

Sitaram Rao Valluri (1974)

Rajagopala Chidambaram (1975)

Shambhu Dayal Sinvhal (1976)

B. R. Deodhar (1976)

B. V. Doshi (1976)

Atmaram Bhairav Joshi (1976)

Janaki Ammal (1977)

Jugal Kishore Choudhury
(1977)

Prafulla Kumar Jena (1977)

Vishwa Gopal Jhingran (1977)

Sibte Hasan Zaidi (1977)

1980s

Hari Krishan Jain (1981)

Gurcharan Singh Kalkat (1981)

Dinkar Gangadhar Kelkar (1981)

Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan (1982)

Satya Prakash (1982)

V. Narayana Rao (1982)

Saroj Raj Choudhury (1983)

Hassan Nasiem Siddiquie (1983)

María Renée Cura (1984)

Vasant Gowarikar
(1984)

Pramod Kale (1984)

Nilamber Pant (1984)

Myneni Hariprasada Rao (1984)

M. R. Srinivasan (1984)

Predhiman Krishan Kaw (1985)

P. V. S. Rao (1987)

Ramadas P. Shenoy (1987)

Saroj Ghose (1989)

Palle Rama Rao (1989)

1990s

Ram Narain Agarwal (1990)

Laurie Baker (1990)

M. R. Kurup (1990)

Rakesh Bakshi (1991)

B. L. Deekshatulu (1991)

Narinder Kumar Gupta (1991)

Shri Krishna Joshi (1991)

Raghunath Anant Mashelkar (1991)

Govindarajan Padmanaban (1991)

Bangalore Puttaiya Radhakrishna (1991)

A. V. Rama Rao (1991)

Ganeshan Venkataraman (1991)

Madhava Ashish (1992)

G. S. Venkataraman (1992)

Kailash Sankhala (1992)

Vinod Prakash Sharma (1992)

Joseph Allen Stein (1992)

Manmohan Attavar (1998)

Priyambada Mohanty Hejmadi (1998)

Anil Kakodkar (1998)

Aditya Narayan Purohit (1998)

V. K. Saraswat (1998)

Asis Datta (1999)

Indira Nath (1999)

M. S. Ramakumar (1999)

M. V. Rao (1999)

S. K. Sikka (1999)

2000s

Vijay P. Bhatkar (2000)

D. D. Bhawalkar (2000)

Gurdev Khush (2000)

Parasu Ram Mishra (2000)

Sandip Kumar Basu (2001)

Bisweswar Bhattacharjee (2001)

V. K. Chaturvedi (2001)

Ketayun Ardeshir Dinshaw (2001)

Prem Shanker Goel (2001)

Goverdhan Mehta (2001)

C. G. Krishnadas Nair (2001)

M. S. Raghunathan (2001)

Sanjaya Rajaram (2001)

T. V. Ramakrishnan (2001)

Thirumalachari Ramasami (2001)

Dasika Durga Prasada Rao (2001)

Paul Ratnasamy (2001)

Ashoke Sen (2001)

Bikash Sinha (2001)

Suhas Pandurang Sukhatme (2001)

A. S. Arya (2002)

Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan (2002)

Padmanabhan Balaram (2002)

Dorairajan Balasubramanian (2002)

Ramanath Cowsik (2002)

Chaitanyamoy Ganguly (2002)

Kota Harinarayana (2002)

Ashok Jhunjhunwala (2002)

Amitav Malik
(2002)

Katuru Narayana (2002)

A. Sivathanu Pillai (2002)

I. V. Subba Rao (2002)

B. N. Suresh (2002)

Asok Kumar Barua (2003)

Shivram Bhoje (2003)

Jai Bhagwan Chaudhary (2003)

Sarvagya Singh Katiyar (2003)

Gyan Chandra Mishra (2003)

Jai Pal Mittal (2003)

Sundaram Ramakrishnan (2003)

Baburao Govindrao Shirke (2003)

Mahendra Singh Sodha (2003)

Nagarajan Vedachalam (2003)

Satish Kumar Kaura (2004)

Nalini Ranjan Mohanty (2004)

T. S. Prahlad (2004)

Vishweshwaraiah Prakash (2004)

K. N. Shankara (2004)

Lalji Singh (2004)

Rajpal Singh Sirohi (2004)

M. Vijayan (2004)

Dipankar Banerjee (2005)

Srikumar Banerjee (2005)

Banwari Lal Chouksey (2005)

Bhagavatula Dattaguru (2005)

Vasudevan Gnana Gandhi (2005)

Madhu Sudan Kanungo (2005)

M. Mahadevappa (2005)

Ramachandran Balasubramanian (2006)

Harsh Gupta (2006)

Seyed E. Hasnain (2006)

Narendra Kumar (2006)

B. V. Nimbkar (2006)

Swaminathan Sivaram (2006)

Thekkethil Kochandy Alex
(2007)

Rabi Narayan Bastia (2007)

Dilip K. Biswas (2007)

Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty (2007)

Kiran Karnik (2007)

Thanu Padmanabhan (2007)

Baldev Raj (2007)

Sudhir Kumar Sopory (2007)

Khadg Singh Valdiya (2007)

Kasturi Lal Chopra (2008)

Joseph H. Hulse (2008)

Bhavarlal Jain (2008)

Kaleem Ullah Khan (2008)

Sant Singh Virmani (2008)

Pramod Tandon (2009)

Goriparthi Narasimha Raju Yadav (2009)

2010s

Vijay Prasad Dimri (2010)

Pucadyil Ittoop John
(2010)

Palpu Pushpangadan (2010)

M. R. S. Rao (2010)

Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath (2010)

Ponisseril Somasundaran (2010)

M. Annamalai (2011)

Moni Lal Bhoumik
(2011)

Coimbatore Narayana Rao Raghavendran (2011)

Suman Sahai (2011)

G. Shankar (2011)

E. A. Siddiq (2011)

Subra Suresh (2011)

V. Adimurthy (2012)

Rameshwar Nath Koul Bamezai (2012)

Krishna Lal Chadha (2012)

Virander Singh Chauhan (2012)

Y. S. Rajan (2012)

Jagadish Shukla (2012)

Vijaypal Singh
(2012)

Lokesh Kumar Singhal (2012)

Manindra Agrawal (2013)

Mustansir Barma (2013)

Avinash Chander (2013)

Sanjay Govind Dhande (2013)

Jayaraman Gowrishankar (2013)

Sharad P. Kale (2013)

Sankar Kumar Pal (2013)

Deepak B. Phatak (2013)

Mudundi Ramakrishna Raju (2013)

Ajay K. Sood (2013)

K. VijayRaghavan (2013)

Sekhar Basu (2014)

Madhavan Chandradathan (2014)

Jayanta Kumar Ghosh (2014)

Ravi Grover (2014)

Ramakrishna V. Hosur (2014)

E. D. Jemmis (2014)

A. S. Kiran Kumar (2014)

Ajay Kumar Parida (2014)

M. Y. S. Prasad (2014)

Brahma Singh (2014)

Vinod K. Singh (2014)

Govindan Sundararajan (2014)

Subbiah Arunan (2015)

Jacques Blamont (2015)

N. Prabhakar (2015)

Prahlada (2015)

S. K. Shivakumar (2015)

Mylswamy Annadurai (2016)

Dipankar Chatterji (2016)

Satish Kumar (2016)

Onkar Nath Srivastava (2016)

Veena Tandon (2016)

G. D. Yadav (2016)

Jitendra Nath Goswami (2017)

Chintakindi Mallesham (2017)

Amitava Roy (2018)

Vikram Chandra Thakur (2018)

Rajagopalan Vasudevan (2018)

Manas Bihari Verma (2018)

Uddhab Bharali (2019)

Baldev Singh Dhillon (2019)

Rohini Godbole (2019)

Subhash Kak (2019)

2020s

Raman Gangakhedkar (2020)

Sujoy K. Guha (2020)

K. S. Manilal (2020)

Vashishtha Narayan Singh (2020)

Thalappil Pradeep (2020)

H. C. Verma (2020)

Sudhir K. Jain (2020)

Rattan Lal (2021)

Subbanna Ayyappan (2022)

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (2022)

Aditya Prasad Dash (2022)

Moti Lal Madan
(2022)

Anil K. Rajvanshi (2022)

Ajay Kumar Sonkar (2022)

Jyantkumar Maganlal Vyas (2022)

Khadar Valli Dudekula (2023)

Modadugu Vijay Gupta (2023)

Ganesh Nagappa Krishnarajanagara (2023)

Arvind Kumar (2023)

Mahendra Pal (2023)

Bakshi Ram (2023)

Sujatha Ramdorai (2023)

Abbareddy Nageswara Rao (2023)

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[Genetic_Resources_and_Seed_Enterprises:_Management_and_Policies-1] 
ISBN 9788189422653
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[INTRODUCTION_TO_PLANT_CELL_TISSUE_AND_ORGAN_CULTURE-2] ISBN 9788120346772
.

[Managing_Director_-_Indo_-_American_Hybrid_Seeds-3] "Managing Director - Indo - American Hybrid Seeds". Bangalore Best. 2015. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2015.

[Floriculture_:_technology,_trades,_and_trends-4] OCLC 30361863
.

[Padma_Awards-5] "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

[Newly-Built_Ladies_Theatre_Block_to_be_Launched_at_CSI_Lombard_Memorial_Hospital-6] "Newly-Built Ladies Theatre Block to be Launched at CSI Lombard Memorial Hospital". Daiji World. 13 May 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2015.

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