Father-daughter duo from Odisha features in the list of Padma Shri awardees on Republic Day eve

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Published By : Prameya News Bureau | January 25, 2020 IST

Bhubaneswar, Jan 25: Professor Radha Mohan and daughter Sabarmatee of Nayagarh district were among the names of several awardees who will be conferred with the Padma Shri Award on Sunday. The final list of names of the awardees is announced by the government on January 25, on the eve of Republic Day. Radha Mohan, a retired Economics Professor, and daughter Sabarmatee, a conservationist, were awarded Padma Shri in the field of Agriculture for their work in organic farming. The father daughter dup started Sambav, a resource centre for farmers across the country where they visit to exchange seeds and learn organic farming. Sambav has successfully grown many vanishing crops such as clove bean, jack bean, black rice and sword bean.  Besides they also transformed 36 hectares of degraded land in Nayagarh district into a food forest by soil and water conservation techniques. The forest has over 1,000 species of plants and 500 varieties of rice and supports a seed bank with 700 indigenous varieties of seeds.

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