Dr. Mathura Rai, Ex-Director, ICAR-Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi served ICAR as Scientist and later became Principal Scientist & Head, CHES, Ranchi, and HARP, Ranchi, OSD, National Research Centre for Litchi, Muzaffarpur. His research area is vegetable and fruit breeding. He developed 60 varieties in vegetable and fruit crops. He is recipient of ICAR Outstanding Multidisciplinary Team Research Award, Harbhajan Singh Award, and Hari Krishna Shastry Award. He has been Member of Several Central/State level professional committees. He is a Fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Indian Society of Vegetable Science. He has published more than 250 research papers,30 technical bulletin and 80 technical articles.
