Agricultural scientist, Mankombu Swaminathan, who helped industrialize India’s farming system, dies at age 98
Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, a key architect in reducing India’s widespread hunger in the late 1960s and 1970s, has died at 98 years old after suffering from an age-related illness. Swaminathan, decorated with one of India’s highest honors in 1967, helped turn the states of Punjab and Haryana into breadbaskets, a project known as the “Green…