Dr Mayee, a resident of Nagpur, Maharashtra has five decades of illustrative career and served as a scientist-par-excellence and able science administrator in the highest capacities in both State of Maharashtra and Government of India before his superannuation in 2011
The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce (FICCI), New Delhi has awarded Prof (Dr) Charudatta Digambarrao Mayee with an award for Distinguished Lifetime Contribution (Individual) in the Agrochemical sector during the FICCI Chemicals and Petrochemicals Awards 2021 held as part of India Chem 2021.
Dr Mayee received the lifetime contribution award from Mansukh Mandaviya, Hon’ble Minister of State, Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways & Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers, in the presence of Yogendra Tripathi, Secretary, Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals and Deepak Mehta, Chairman FICCI Agriculture Chemical Committee at the time of ’India Chem 2021’ held on March 17, 2021 at Hotel Taj Palace, New Delhi. Dr Mayee is currently serving as the President of South Asia Biotechnology Centre (SABC), Jodhpur and Advisor to Agrovision Foundation, Nagpur.
Dr Mayee, a resident of Nagpur, Maharashtra has five decades of illustrative career and served as a scientist-par-excellence and able science administrator in the highest capacities in both State of Maharashtra and Government of India before his superannuation in 2011. He is an accomplished plant protection scientist, an epidemiologist who contributed enormously to the application of cutting-edge science and developing the disease prediction model and identification of hotspots of diseases such as downy mildew in orphan crops grown in the semi-arid region.
Dr Mayee had been instrumental in carrying our bio-efficacy assessment of insect-resistant Bt cotton, which was approved by the Govt of India in 2002. Moreover, Dr Mayee left an indelible mark in his quest for an integrated approach to the development of plant protection R&D and agrochemicals sector in India. FICCI award is a true recognition of Dr Mayee’s distinguished contribution to the Indian agrochemicals and biotechnology sector and his outstanding leadership and tireless efforts over the years to the Indian agriculture sector.
In the past, Dr Mayee served as Chairman Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board (ASRB), Government of India, New Delhi; Agriculture Commissioner, Ministry of Agriculture and Framers’ Welfare, Govt of India, New Delhi; Director, ICAR-Central Institute for Cotton Research (CICR), Nagpur, Maharashtra and Vice-Chancellor and Marathwada Agriculture University, Parbhani, Maharashtra. He served as the Chairman of Central Insecticides Board and Registration Committee (CIBRC), and Co-Chairman of the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee and many high-powered committees that carried out the most notable reforms in R&D, biotechnology and agrochemical sector.
