Agriculture (February, 1976) Award by the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, New Delhi for outstanding contribution in the area of life sciences including agriculture (1977)SIMA Cotton Development and Research Association, Coimbatore, for excellence in Cotton Development and for outstanding contribution for the development and releasing of high yielding medium staple Cotton variety, LRA-5166. (1988), Rao Bahaddur Ramanath Iyer Award, 1990–91, by ISCI, Mumbai. For outstanding contribution in the field of Cotton Breeding and Genetics. (1992) ABLE Award, for excellence in Agriculture Sciences (2007). Honorary Fellowship to Sri. R. Krishnamourthy, by ISCI on 16 June 2007. Sri. Krishnamourthy has been continuously involved in Cotton research for more than 5 decades and whose Research output has been commercialized extensively. Cotton hybrids developed by him have benefited the nearly 1 to 1.5 million farming community, during the Non-Bt cotton days and 1.5 to 2 million farmers during the introduction of Biotech Cottons, in India. The cottons have impressive yield advantage compared to other hybrids and accomplished a peak coverage of 21,200 km² during 1997–98 and during 2006—07. The sizable coverage led to an additional cotton production of 3,000,000 bales in the country, which accounts for approximately 30% of cotton production. Out of the 62 Bt cotton hybrids approved by the Regulatory Authority for Commercialization in India, 21 Bt cotton hybrids have been developed by Sri. Krishnamourthy, under the Rasi Seeds banner. Constituting 33.9% of the total Bt cotton hybrids released for commercialization, they occupy 29% of the hybrid cotton area in India. Rasi seeds have bagged, “DSIR National Award for R&D efforts in Industry (2005) in the commercialization of Technologies Acquired from others.” ISCI Awards, published on June 16, 2007, by the Journal of ISCI, Matunga, Mumbai – 400 019. Publications He has published over 35 research papers in journals of high repute. Krishnamurthy, R Breeding for Fibre Quality Improvement of Cotton (2007) References Living people Textile scientists 1928 births Tamil Nadu Agricultural University alumni