Surajit Kumar De Datta

• B.S., Agriculture, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, 1956 • M.S, Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India, 1958 • Ph.D., Soil Science, University of Hawaii, 1962 == Personal life ==

He married Lakshmanan Vijayalakshmi, an Indian actress who was active during the 1960s and 1970s. She was a prominent lead actress during the early 1960s in Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi films. == Contribution to Green Revolution ==

The term “Green Revolution” refers to the transformation of agriculture that occurred from the 1940s through the 1960s, when farmers used the discoveries of science, planting higher-yielding rice varieties to great success. In 1968, De Datta, then an agronomist at the institute, published his findings about IR8, a variety of rice that yielded 5 tons of rice per hectare with almost no fertilizer and 9.4 tons per hectare with fertilizer. This was nearly 10 times the yield of traditional rice and came to be known as Miracle Rice. == References ==