Silver Jubilee Lecture Series

S. No. Speaker Topic Date
1 Dr. M. S. Swaminathan Cotton and Rural Livelihoods 8th June 1999
2 Shri Shyamal Ghosh Textiles in the New Millennium 18th Sept. 1999
3 Dr. P. K. Ghosh Genetically Modified Crops in India with Special Reference to Cotton 23rd June 2000
4 Dr. C. R. Hazra Indian Agriculture in the Wake of Globalization 15th May, 2001
5 Shri. B. R. Barwale Seed Industry and Cotton Production 28th July, 2001
6 Dr. Terry Townsend Developments in World Cotton Production Research 23rd Nov. 2001
7 Shri. M. B. Lal Present Status of Indian Cotton and Strategies for Improvement 23rd Nov. 2001
8 Shri. Vishwa Nath Indian Cotton Trade – Past, Present and Future: Perspectives of Public Sector 26th April, 2002
9 Shri. Suresh Kotak Indian Cotton Trade – Past, Present and Future: Perspectives of Private Sector 26th April 2002
10 Dr. B. M. Khadi Commercialization of Bt Cotton: Its Success and Problems in Indian Agriculture 1st March 2003

Dr. V. Sundaram Memorial Lecture Series

Sr. No. Speaker Topic Date
1 Dr. M. S. Swaminathan  Enhancing the Global competitiveness in Cotton and Cotton Fabrics  23rd Dec. 2005
2 Dr. V. Santhanam  Retrospect and Perspectives for Extracting 

Staple Cotton development 

23rd Dec. 2006
3 Shri R. Krishnamoorthy  Breeding for Fibre Quality Improvement of Cotton 16th June 2007
4 Shri Perchuri Vidyasagar  Cotton Improvement In India Contribution & Perspectives of Private Seed Industries 9th June, 2011
5 Dr. C. D. Mayee Adoption and Uptake Hathways of Biotech Crops by small scale Resource Poor Asian Farmers  26th March, 2014
6 Dr. R. P. Nachane Achievements in the Cotton Value Chain Project  26th March, 2014
7 Dr. A. K. Basu The High Density Planting System in Cotton  26th March, 2014
8 Dr. R. Mashelkar On Designing An Indian Agriculture Inclusive Innovation System  21st, August 2015
9 Dr. Paul Teng Disruptive Technologies in Agriculture for the Next Green Revolution – with Special focus on cotton 19th February, 2019

Padmabhushan Dr. B. R. Barwale Memorial Lecture Series

Sr. No. Speaker Topic Date
1 Dr. Kirti Singh Rathore Biotechnology-based Solutions to Improve the Cotton Plant” With special emphasis on “Gossypol Free Transgenic Cotton Development 19th  Dec. 2018