Prem Nath is the founder of the PNAS Foundation established in 2000. Dr Nath obtained his PhD degree in Horticulture from Kansas State University in the U.S.A 1962. The same year, he returned to India and served at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (New Delhi), University of Udaipur (Jobner), Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (Bangalore) for about 15 years. He continues his research concentrating on the issues of food and agriculture/horticulture through the Dr Prem Nath Agricultural Science Foundation (PNASF) to which he has donated his life savings.
He has published many books. He is the author of a book entitled ‘Vegetable Crops for the Tropical Region’ published by the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi, in 1976 and 1987 and reprinted in 1994 and 2004. This book is still popular among the Agricultural Universities in India. He is also a co-author of a new book entitled –“State of the Indian Farmer: A Millennium Study” published in 2004 by the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperation, Government of India. Furthermore, he is the senior author of a book entitled “Vegetable Crops-Improvement and Production” as well as the co-author of a book entitled, “Foods and Nutrition” published by the Studium Press, New Delhi and PNASF in 2010.
Dr Nath has hundreds of publications and technical reports published in India and abroad. He has the credit of establishing horticultural research institutes in India, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Yemen and of guiding horticulture research programs in Africa, near East, Asia and East European countries. In 1994, he was responsible for launching successful FAO’s Special Program on Food Security for Low-Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDC’s) across the globe. Presently, Dr Prem Nath is the Chairman of the Prem Nath Agricultural Science Foundation (PNASF).
