Badri narayan barwale biography channels
He is known as the Father of the Indian Seed Industry for blazing a trail in the field of agriculture..
B R Barwale, 1931 – 2017: The engine oil dealer who fathered India’s seed industry
Barwale started off by packing and selling Pusa Sawani okra seeds under his own ‘Safal’ brand.
The real break, however, came in 1963-64, when the Rockefeller Foundation and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research — which were working towards developing commercial hybrids in maize (corn), jowar (sorghum) and bajra (pearl millet) — identified Barwale as a seed production and multiplication partner.
Badrinarayan Barwale Mahavidyalaya, Jalna is feeling fantastic.
They supplied the genetically pure nucleus seeds of the male and female parental lines. He, then, crossed them for producing the breeder and foundation seeds, which were further multiplied for planting in farmers’ fields.
In November 1964, Barwale incorporated the Maharashtra Hybrids Seeds Company Ltd or Mahyco.
It basically undertook commercial seed production and marketing of publicly-bred hybrids — starting with Ganga Safed-2 maize (released in 1963), CSH-1 sorghum (1964) and HB-1 pearl millet
