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Detailed explanation-1: -The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today released a two-part book series on the eminent agricultural scientist Dr. M.S. Swaminathan. The series is titled – M.S.

Detailed explanation-2: -M.S. Swaminathan was named the first World Food Prize Laureate for developing and spearheading the introduction of high-yielding wheat and rice varieties into India during the 1960s when that country faced the prospect of widespread famine.

Detailed explanation-3: -He is known as the father of India’s Green Revolution, for his contributions to the development of high-yielding varieties of wheat. He founded the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, the pioneer organization behind the ”evergreen revolution”.

Detailed explanation-4: -He has been acclaimed by the Time Magazine as one of the twenty most influential Asians of the 20th Century, one of the three from India – the other two being Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. The first award was presented to Nobel Laureate for Peace, Dr. Norman E.