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Year-1995-96; A watershed moment of my professional career Not many would remember that in 1995 National Dairy Development Board had initiated a project on ” Oil Palm”. The project was initiated in Mandya district of Karnataka with the objective of producing, procuring, processing and marketing Palm oil so that the burden of import of edible […]
Year 1982. I was in Karachi with Mike (Dr. Michael Halse, my guru). We were members the Pakistan Dairy Sector Review Mission fielded by the World Bank and led by Dr. V. Kurien. The evening we reached Karachi, Mike told me that he had a call from the principal of his high school in London […]
Dr. Mukund Naware In August 1977 Dr Naware returned from Guntur after working there as Spear Head Team Leader for 7 months. Back to Anand, he was waiting for further orders and spending time in giving lectures in on-going training programs and escorting important visitors under Guest Programs in the evenings……he writes.. Like every story […]
My contribution to the Souvenir brought out on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Charutar Arogya Mandal , Chairman Dr. Amrita Patel. I will try an English translation and post the same later. The souvenir was brought out in English, Gujarati and Hindi. I chose to write in Hindi. अगस्त या सितंबर १९६८ का […]
Michael Halse: My Guru by RK Nagar RK Nagar pays tributes to his Guru …Dr Michael Halse…It is a long piece but worth a read particularly for those who wish to know more about the unsung heroes who under Dr Kurien’s leadership made the “White Revolution “ a reality in India. Mike was a born […]
Michael Halse became a member of the founding board of National Dairy Development Board from 1965 1968. He was FAO advisor NDDB from 1968 till 1983. When Operation Flood I was launched in 1970 he was appointed as the Team Leader of FAO experts assigned to NDDB. He helped conceptualise and set up the Management […]