CONGRATULATIONS MR. CHINTALA VENKAT REDDY AND PRABALIKA M BORAH AND THE HINDU

 HHYDERABAD FEBRUARY 15,2021

• Chintala Venkat Reddy, who won a Padma Shri in 2020, applies natural processes and minerals to enrich rice and wheat with Vitamin D

 “I succeeded after working on it for two years. Then filed

for a national patent in August 2019 and a year later, I applied for International patent on August 1, 2020. My concern was simple: why should we take medicines for something that is coming to us naturally, for free? I had already worked on rice with Vitamin A and C; my crops are fed with natural nutrients through drip irrigation. It is a simple technique and absolutely natural. I tweaked the process and the nutrients to enrich rice and wheat with Vit D.”