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Prof. N. Kumar, born on 29th June, 1955 in a village Kadukkarai at Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu, is basically a horticulturist, had obtained his B.Sc. (Hort.), M.Sc. (Agri.) in Horticulture and Ph.D. in Horticulture degrees in the year 1976, 1978 and 1989 respectively from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore with distinct academic records. He has been awarded with five Gold Medals for his academic distinctions in both undergraduate and higher educations. He has put more than 26 years of experience in horticulture including hill plantation crops during which he handled mostly research projects on breeding of horticultural corps. He has served in various capacities at TNAU, Coimbatore including its research centres at Kodaikanal, Yercaud and Periyakulam. As the Principal Investigator, he has handled more than 10 externally funded schemes. He has got a rich experience in teaching of Under Graduate Students for more than 10 years and Post Graduate Courses for more than 12 years of Horticulture and has so far guided 9 Ph.D. and 11 .Sc. (Hort.) students. He has published more than 30 scientific papers in National and International journals and articles in four edited books. His earlier two book have been very popular among the student fraternity. He served as the Associate Editor of the Scientific Journal "South Indian Journals" since the year 1998. He has visited other countries like Israel, Thailand, Germany, Brazil and Malaysia to enhance and polish his expertise in horticulture.