Mysuru :

A. Ramakrishna, Scientist ‘F’, Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL), Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), Siddharthanagar, Mysuru has been conferred with Dr. M. Mahadevaiah Award-2013.

The award, comprising a silver plate and a citation, was presented to him by Krishnendu Narayan Chowdhury, Minister of Food Processing & Horticulture, West Bengal on Dec.12 at the 70th Annual Conference of AIFPA at Kolkata.

About the Award: The award was instituted by Dr. M. Mahadevaiah, a renowned Food Scientist & Technologist in 2009, to be given to any industry or a person for significant contribution to the development of ‘Food Packaging Technology’ or ‘Food Processing Technology’.

About the awardee: A. Ramakrishna is a M.Tech graduate from University of Mysore. He has vast experience of 30 years at DFRL and has contributed significantly for the development of food packaging and processing industries through his R&D work.

He has got eight patents and nine awards for developing packaging and processing machineries. He has published and presented 52 research papers in reputed Indian and International journals and conferences. He was also recognised as Outstanding Ajmer Best Scientist.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General  News  /  Friday , December 19th, 2014