A publisher who founded a magazine that advocated for quality consumer goods for the Japanese middle class amidst rapid industrialization and commercial expansion

A cytogeneticist from India who made major advances in breeding sturdier, more productive and better quality plant types

A research and education center established to reduce poverty and hunger, improve the health of rice farmers and consumers.

A Japanese professor of agriculture, and a pioneer of agricultural economics who made important contributions to development of agricultural science and research and to charting Japanese agricultural policies.

A Japanese pioneer in practical humanitarianism, enhancing cooperation in agriculture by learning through multinational experience.

A member of the Thai royal family who devoted his life and fortune to introducing agricultural methods new to the then Kingdom of Siam

A South Korean agrarian movement leader, Christian and philosopher who pioneereed waste land cultivation, and strove to demonstrate through his work that life as a farmer can be fulfilling and productive

Pakistan's committed rural development leader, who brought the farmers' cooperative approach to rural development in disaster prone impoverished areas, encouraging farmers to organize into a federationinitiating significant projects.

An Indian entrepreneur known for his contributions to the dairy industry of India.