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Nagendra Rai, is Senior Scientist, Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi. Dr. Rai received his Ph.D. degree in Horticultural from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in 1992. He has taught vegetable breeding courses to post graduate students at Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishawavidyalaya, Raipur, chhattisgarh for about 7 years and guided post graduate students in the discipline of vegetable breeding. He worked as Incharge for all India Coordinated Vegetable Research Programme at IGKV, Raipur. Dr. Rai has published over 100 research papers and popular articles. Dr. Rai has evolved and released a short duration variety of tomato adopted in rice based cropping system for mid hill agroclimatic conditions. He is recipient of Crop Research Award 2004 constituted by Gaurav Society of Agriculture Information Centre, Haryana for his outstanding contribution in vegetable breeding. He has authored the book "Advances in Vegetable Production". He travelled and has attended in several national and international conferences. He is presently working on improvement of tomato, French bean and Indian bean at Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi.