<Tr> <Th> Institutions </Th> <Td> MS Swaminathan Research Foundation </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Influences </Th> <Td> Dr. Norman Borlaug </Td> </Tr> <P> Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan (born 7 August 1925) is an Indian geneticist and international administrator, renowned for his leading role in India's Green Revolution a program under which high - yield varieties of wheat and rice seedlings were planted in the fields of poor farmers . Swaminathan is known as "Indian Father of Green Revolution" for his leadership and success in introducing and further developing high - yielding varieties of wheat in India . He is the founder and chairman of the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation . His stated vision is to rid the world of hunger and poverty . Swaminathan is an advocate of moving India to sustainable development, especially using environmentally sustainable agriculture, sustainable food security and the preservation of biodiversity, which he calls an "evergreen revolution ." </P> <P> From 1972 to 1979 he was director general of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research . He was Principal Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture from 1979 to 1980 . He served as Director General of the International Rice Research Institute (1982--88) and became president of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources in 1988 . </P>

Who is regarded as the father of green revolution