Muradabad Farmer Raghupat Singh Posthumously Awarded Padma Shri for Seed Research

• Raghupat Singh, a farmer from Bilari village, Muradabad, has been posthumously selected for the Padma Shri award for 2026.
• He dedicated his life to cultivating extinct vegetables and researching agricultural seeds, distributing refined seeds to universities.
• Singh developed new seed varieties and modified existing ones, making them available to the public since 1980.
• He received over 10 national and 18 state-level awards for his contributions to agriculture.
• His son, Surendra Pal Singh, will receive the award and continues his father's legacy in farming.

Why It Matters: Muradabad's Raghupat Singh posthumously receives Padma Shri for pioneering work in seed research and extinct vegetable cultivation.