was a Japanese professor of

agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

, and a pioneer of

agricultural economics Agricultural economics is an applied field of economics concerned with the application of economic theory in optimizing the production and distribution of food and fiber products. Agricultural economics began as a branch of economics that specif ...

Awards

Seiichi Tobata was awarded the 1968

Ramon Magsaysay Award The Ramon Magsaysay Award (Filipino language, Filipino: ''Gawad Ramon Magsaysay'') is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay's example of integrity in governance, courageous service to the people, ...

for Public Service,"The 1968 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service – CITATION for Seiichi Tobata"
(Retrieved on February 10, 2008) for his contributions to modernization of Japanese agriculture. He was also awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (1975) and the Order of Culture (1980).

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1899 births 1983 deaths Japanese scientists Japanese agronomists Ramon Magsaysay Award winners History of agriculture in Japan Scientists from Mie Prefecture {{japan-scientist-stub

Awards

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