National Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Dr. Chakravarthi Devakumar
FELLOW, ELECTED 2010

Born in Desur, India on 2 June 1951. Education: B.Sc. Univ. of Madras, 1972; M.Sc. in Chemistry, IIT, Chennai, 1974; Ph.D in 'Agricultural Chemistry', IARI, New Delhi, 1987.

Assistant Director General (EP & D), ICAR, New Delhi, (2009-13); Consultant to National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP), ICAR, New Delhi 2013-14. FAO TCDC Expert, Sri Lanka, (2014-16); Chairman, Committee for Revision of Specifications of Neem Coated Urea, Department of Agriculture Cooperation & Farmers Welfare, Ministry of A & FW, GOI, New Delhi (2018); Consultant, The Competition Commission of India, New Delhi; Member, The Hon'ble Tamil Nadu Governor/Chancellor Nominated Search Committee for the VC of TN Agricultural University, Coimbatore (2018); Member, Committee to Review The Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) and Score Cards for Scientists of ICAR (2021).

Awards/Honours: Suresh Gold Medal for Chemistry, 1972, A.M. Jain College, Chennai; Rear Admiral MS Malhotra Prize, DIPAS (DRDO), Delhi, 1990 & 1991; HARDF Award, 1994; ICAR Team Research Award, 1997-98 & 2000; Neem Mission Award, 1999-2000; Listed as an International Resource Person in the book "Neem: A Tree for Solving Global Problems" (1992) by National Research Council, USA; Managing Editor, J. IARI Postgraduate Research, 1993-97; UNDP Expert on Botanical Pesticides at University of West Indies, Jamaica (2000); Editor, Pesticide Research J., 2003-04; Member, National Organising Committee, 2nd International Rice Congress, New Delhi and jointly edited the Proceedings (2006); Dr P.B. Sarkar Memorial Endowment Lecture Award, 2006. National Coordinator for ARS/ NET Syllabus Revision of Agricultural Chemicals and Organic Chemistry, 2007; Associate Editor, Agricultural Research, 2012-2022; DARE/ICAR's Nominee: i) for the signing of MOU between ICAR and KazakAgroinnovations JSC, Kazakhstan, 2012; ii) India-USAID Advisory Committee on Partnership Agreement on Agriculture and Food Security Programme (AFSP), 2012; iii) The BRICS Agriculture Experts Group Meeting, Beijing, China, 2011 and Nodal Officer for the Second Meeting, 2012; iv) Boards of Management of SDAU, Sardar Krushinagar, Gujarat and NDUAT, Kumarganj, Faizabad; Leslie Coleman Memorial Lecture Award, 2015, UAS, Bangalore; Chairman of Juries, NAAS Silver Jubilee Youth Deliberations, June 2015; 16th Dr R S Murthy Memorial Lecture, India Society of Soil Science, Coimbatore Chapter, 2017; Member, RAC, ICAR-CTCRI, Trivandrum (2018-2020); Member, RAC, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi (2018-2020); Member, ICAR-ASRB Committee on Defining the Job Responsibilities of the Research Management Positions (2018); Member, ICAR Committee on Revision of QRT Guidelines (2018-19); Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society of Pesticide Science India (2019) Fellow: Indian Chemical Society, Kolkata; Honorary Founder Life Member, Society of Pesticide Science, India, New Delhi. JAS Excellence Award (2023); JAS Gian Jyoti Prize (2024).

Research Areas: Agrochemicals, botanical pesticides, insecticide synergists, chemical hybridizing agents and neem coated urea); Policy envisioning, planning and development of higher education

Address: A-61, Second Floor, Inderpuri, New Delhi 110012; [Tel: Cell: 8010509335; Email: cdevakumar@gmail.com]

Editor 1 Jan, 2011 to 31 Dec, 2013; Treasurer (Casual Vacancy) 23 Aug, 2010 to 31 Dec, 2010