List of awards in agriculture sector

List of awardees in agriculture sector 2015-16

 Dr. Amrita patel– Mahindra samriddi India agri life time achievement award (Krishi Siromani Samman) for implementation of NDDB operation flood programme

 Sir Fazle Hasan Abed of Bangladesh – 2015 winner of the World Food Prize. He is the founder of Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC, has been hailed as the most effective anti-poverty organization in the world

 World food prize 2016: The three-person team from the International Potato Center (known by its Spanish acronym CIP) Dr. Maria Andrade (Cape Verde), Dr. Robert Mwanga (Uganda) and Dr. Jan Low (USA) – is being honored for their achievement in developing the single most successful example of micronutrient and vitamin bio-fortification – the orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP).