Trilochan Mohapatra

Trilochan Mohapatra

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  • Name:
  • Trilochan Mohapatra
  • Born:
  • April 20, 1962

Trilochan Mohapatra Biography

Trilochan Mohapatra is an Indian agriculturist, biotechnologist and geneticist. He currently serves as a government secretary of the Department of Agricultural Research and Education and also director general of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Since mid-1990s, he has received numerous honours for his contributions towards the field of agriculture. In 1994 he received INSA Young Scientist Medal and INSA Professor LSS Kumar Memorial Award. NAAS-Tata Young Scientist Award in 2001, IARI BP Pal Memorial Award in 2002, 2003 N-BIOS Prize, Indian Genetics Congress Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015, NAAS Recognition Award and Om Prakash Bhasin Award in 2016 are other honours receive by him.

 

Trilochan Mohapatra was born on 20 April 1962 in Cuttack, Odisha. He was born in Kharibil. He completed his schooling from Laxmi Narayan High School at Eranch in 1978. Later he studied at Ravenshaw College and Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology. He completed his doctoral studies to secure a PhD in 1992. His professional career began the same year as a senior scientist at the National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology. From there on, he has served some of the prominent positions as an administrator.

 

He attended his traing program in rice genome sequencing at the Arizona Genomics Institute of the University of Arizona. As a researcher he spent most of his time for advanced research in the fields of molecular biology and biotechnology in crop plants. He was associated with the same subject till 2012. After that he was appointed as the director of Central Rice Research Institute and vice-chancellor of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute. He served as the director of IARI during 2015-2016. Currently he serves as the director general of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

Published: January 28, 2019

Updated: January 31, 2019

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