Dr. Verghese Kurien (26 November 1921 – 9 September 2012), a renowned Indian social entrepreneur known as the ‘Father of the White Revolution’ for his ‘Billion Liter Idea’ (Operation Flood) – the world’s largest agricultural development program – are still famous for today. This operation gave India more progress than America in 1998 and made it the largest producer of milk from a milk-deficient country.
Famous Verghese Kurien Quotes
The way to improve productivity is not to bring in experts to talk about inputs – seed, equipment and materials, pesticides or water supply.India’s place in the sun would come from the partnership between wisdom of its rural people and skill of its professionals.I have often spoken of integrity as the most important of these values, realizing that integrity – and personal integrity, at that – is being honest to yourself. If you are always honest to yourself, it does not take much effort in always being honest with others.In every crisis, if you look carefully, you will spot an opportunity. My insistence is on finding and seizing that opportunity. I never try to side-step a crisis. Rather, the more monstrous the crises, the more I am tempted to rush at it, grasp it by the horns and man-oeuvre it until it gives me what I want.
