Agricultural Policy Scientist Shashank Kulkarni was interviewed on the program ‘Swastha-Sukham’ on Jammu Doordarshan. Jammu Doordarshan Assistant Director Sukriti Sharma conducted this interview. The interview covered various issues like Green Revolution, Swaminathan Commission, Sustainable Agriculture, Health of Citizens. Speaking in an interview, Kulkarni said that we have to focus on sustainable agricultural development.
We are facing various health problems due to poisonous food. So strategic work has to be done to produce poison free food. Program Officer Mr. Gautam, Director of Doordarshan Engineering Department Ravi Kumar was guided for this program.
Shashank Kulkarni is an eminent poet, author, orator and internationally renowned agricultural policy scientist. He was born in the year 1990 in the village Sakharle (district Sangli) in Maharashtra. He has worked as a Senior Research Fellow of the University Grants Commission in the Department of Public Policy and Public Administration of the Central University of Jammu. He has been honored by various countries of the world for his research and writing work.
He has written more than ten books in Marathi, Hindi, English languages on various subjects. He has written in various national and international research journals. He has played an important role in the establishment of Pujya Dwarkanath Shastri National Research Centre. He is also known as the founder of ‘Baba Laxman Das Rashtriya Smarak Nirman Seva Samiti’, an innovative social and spiritual movement of Jammu and Kashmir. He has been honored by the famous Swahili University in South America in recognition of his fundamental research work in relation to India’s agricultural policy.