Millets scientist feted Updated: Updated: Receives Annual Seed Scientist Award Share Article AAA Seedsmen Association honouring Indian Institute of Millets Research scientist A.V. Umakanth with Annual Seed Scientist award at an event in Hyderabad on Monday. | Photo Credit: By arrangement Receives Annual Seed Scientist Award An agricultural scientist with ICAR-Indian Institute of Millets Research has been honoured with the Annual Seed Scientist award given by the Seedsmen Association here on Monday in recognition of his contributions in the area of sorghum crop breeding. According to a press release, A.V. Umakanth is leading the research on sweet sorghum and high biomass sorghum for biofuels as principal investigator under the All India Coordinated Research Project on sorghum.