Rattan Lal: Helped over 500 million small farmersDr Lal, in his career spanning more than five decades and four continents, has promoted innovative soil-saving techniques benefiting the livelihoods of more than 500 million small farmers, improving the food and nutritional security of more than two billion people and saving hundreds of millions of hectares of natural tropical ecosystems, the World Food Prize Foundation said in a statement on Thursday.“Soil science has been recognised by this award.
I feel very happy about it," he told PTI in an interview after the announcement.Dr M S Swaminathan was first recipientThe award is especially important because the first recipient of this prestigious award in 1987 was Indian agricultural scientist.