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| birth_place        = [[Phaltan]], [[Maharashtra]], India

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| occupation        = Agricultural scientist<br>Social worker

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| children          = [[Nandini Nimbkar]]<br> Manjiri Nimbkar, Chanda Nimbker

| awards            = [[Padma Shri]]<br>[[Jamnalal Bajaj Award]]

'''Bonbehari Vishnu Nimbkar''' is an Indian agricultural scientist and social worker, known for his pioneering work in the fields of [[animal husbandry]] and agriculture.<ref name="Company Profile">{{cite web | url=http://www.indiamart.com/nimbkar-seeds/ | title=Company Profile | publisher=India Mart | date=2015 | access-date=December 6, 2015}}</ref> He is the founder of [[Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute]], a [[Phaltan]]-based [[non governmental organization]] engaged in research and development in animal husbandry and agriculture. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]], in 2006, for his contributions to Indian agricultural sector.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=July 21, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=November 15, 2014 }}</ref> In November 2016 he was given the [[Jamnalal Bajaj Award]] for application of science and technology for rural applications.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/rahul-bajaj-hails-modi-govt-over-reform-process/1/804976.html |title = Rahul Bajaj hails Modi govt over reform process}}</ref>

== Biography ==

B. V. Nimbkar, born on 17 July 1931 in Goa to [[Kamala Nimbkar]] (''nee'' Elizabeth Lundy) and Vishnu Nimbkar. He attended [[George School|George school, a Quaker run preparatory school in Newtown, Pennsylvania]]<ref name="Greater Game: India's Race with Destiny and China">{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/greatergameindia0000vanp | url-access=registration | quote=Bonbehari Vishnu Nimbkar. | title=Greater Game: India's Race with Destiny and China | publisher=McGill-Queen's Press | author=David Van Praagh | year=2003 | pages=464 | isbn=9780773571303}}</ref> His mother also attended the same school<ref name="India: Newtoner's Second Home">{{cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/53109038/ | title=India: Newtoner's Second Home | publisher=The Bristol Daily | date=20 October 1962 | access-date=December 6, 2015}}</ref> After obtaining a master's degree from the [[University of Arizona]],<ref name="Factors affecting the protein composition of cereal crops with particular reference to sorghum (Sorghum vulgare)">{{cite journal | url=http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/319572 | title=Factors affecting the protein composition of cereal crops with particular reference to sorghum (Sorghum vulgare) | author=Nimbkar, BonBehari Vishnu, 1931- | journal=The University of Arizona | year=1955}}</ref> he returned to India. In 1956,he started farming in [[Phaltan]], a taluka in western [[Maharashtra]] and is reported to have started a seed business and processing plant called Nimbkar seeds, with financial assistance from [[Rockefeller Foundation]]. In 1968, he founded the [[Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute]] (NARI), a non profit [[non governmental organization]], for advanced research in agriculture.<ref name="Research Institutions Policy Research Journal - Energy Alternatives India">{{cite web | url=http://www.eai.in/dir/ren/bio/eth/res/ | title=Research Institutions Policy Research Journal - Energy Alternatives India | publisher=Energy Alternatives India | date=2015 | access-date=December 6, 2015}}</ref> The organization has since grown to include activities in renewable energy, animal husbandry and sustainable development. His company Nimbkar Seeds is credited with the introduction of pure-bred [[Boer goats]] for the first time in India.<ref name="Company Profile" />

Nimbkar remained the president of NARI till 1990 and the organization is presently headed by his daughter [[Nandini Nimbkar]] and assisted by Chanda Nimbker and Nandini's husband, [[Anil K. Rajvanshi]].<ref name="Indian NGO awarded for its innovative lantern-cum-stove">{{cite journal | url=http://southasia.oneworld.net/news/indian-ngo-awarded-for-its-innovative-lantern-cum-stove#.VmPw2fmGSko | title=Indian NGO awarded for its innovative lantern-cum-stove | journal=Owsa | publisher=One World South Asia | date=15 July 2009 | access-date=December 6, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Nature of Human Thought">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=__YlBAAAQBAJ&q=B+V+Nimbkar&pg=PA14 | title=Nature of Human Thought | publisher=Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute | author=Anil K Rajvanshi | year=2010 | pages=180 | isbn=9788190578127}}</ref> The organization is reported to have had many achievements such as the development of 2009 Global Sustainability Research Award winning Lantern-cum-stove,<ref name="Indian NGO awarded for its innovative lantern-cum-stove" /> development of ''NARI Suwarna'' strain of Deccani sheep,;<ref name="NCL and NARI honoured with prestigious CAIRD award">{{cite web | url=http://www.nclinnovations.org/pdfs/awards/ncl/2007oct19-ncl-nari-caird.pdf | title=NCL and NARI honoured with prestigious CAIRD award | publisher=National Chemical Laboratory | date=2007 | access-date=December 6, 2015}}</ref> development of loose biomass gasifier for industrial heating applications<ref>[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.733.7378&rep=rep1&type=pdf SUGARCANE LEAF-BAGASSE GASIFIERS FOR INDUSTRIAL HEATING APPLICATIONS ]</ref> method for artificial insemination in goats using frozen buck semen, breeding of high-yielding Southern African Boer sheep<ref name="Dr. Chanda Nimbkar">{{cite web | url=http://www.pragatshikshansanstha.org/peopledetail.php?peopleid=4f59e0be2d28b | title=Dr. Chanda Nimbkar | publisher=Pragat Shikshan Sanstha | date=2015 | access-date=December 6, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807041517/http://www.pragatshikshansanstha.org/peopledetail.php?peopleid=4f59e0be2d28b | archive-date=August 7, 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> and development of hybrid sweet [[sorghum]].<ref name="Research Institutions Policy Research Journal - Energy Alternatives India" /> The activities have earned the organization several awards including the ''Science and Technology Innovation for Rural Development Award'' of the [[Council for Scientific and Industrial Research]] (CSIR) in 2007.<ref name="Dr. Chanda Nimbkar" /> Nimbkar has documented his researches by way of several articles published in national and international journals.<ref name="EPW profile">{{cite web | url=http://www.epw.in/authors/b-v-nimbkar | title=EPW profile | publisher=Economic and Political Weekly | date=2015 | access-date=December 6, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Potential introgression pathways and strategies for wider use of the  FecB gene in Maharashtra state and other parts of India">{{cite journal | url=https://www.academia.edu/4460000 | title=Potential introgression pathways and strategies for wider use of the FecB gene in Maharashtra state and other parts of India | author=Nimbkar C., J.H.J. van der Werf, P.M. Ghalsasi1, B.V. Nimbkar, and S.W. Walkden-Brown | journal=ACIAR, Australia}}</ref><ref name="Desertification of Western Maharashtra: Causes and possible solutions. I. Comparative growth of eight tree species">{{cite journal | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/223859998 | title=Desertification of Western Maharashtra: Causes and possible solutions. I. Comparative growth of eight tree species |author1=B. V. Nimbkar |author2=Nandini Nimbkar |author3=N. Zende | journal= Forest Ecology and Management| volume=16 | issue=1–4 | pages=243–251 | year=1986 | doi=10.1016/0378-1127(86)90024-1}}</ref> The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]] in 2006.<ref name="Indian Affairs Annual 2006">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mu9PJk4VXy4C&q=Bonbehari+Vishnu+Nimbkar&pg=PA218 | title=Indian Affairs Annual 2006 | author=Mahendra Gaur | year=2006 | pages=3294 | isbn=9788178355290}}</ref>

* {{cite journal | title=Potential introgression pathways and strategies for wider use of the FecB gene in Maharashtra state and other parts of India | author=Nimbkar C., J.H.J. van der Werf, P.M. Ghalsasi1, B.V. Nimbkar, and S.W.Walkden-Brown | journal=ACIAR, Australia}}

* {{cite journal | title=Desertification of Western Maharashtra: Causes and possible solutions. I. Comparative growth of eight tree species |author1=B. V. Nimbkar |author2=Nandini Nimbkar |author3=N. Zende | journal=ResearchGate | year=1986}}

* {{cite journal | title=A Word of Warning on Hybrids | author=B. V. Nimbkar | journal=Economic and Political Weekly | date=December 1967 | volume=II | issue=47}}

* {{cite journal | title=Jumble of Sundry Facts | author=B. V. Nimbkar | journal=Economic and Political Weekly | date=October 1967 | volume=IV | issue=40}}

* {{cite journal | title=The Greening of Maharashtra | author=B. V. Nimbkar | journal=Economic and Political Weekly | date=February 1988 | volume=XXIII | issue=8}}

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* {{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LNuI01dKK0 | title=B.V. Nimbkar - a tale of my grandfather | publisher=Biroba Cinema | work=[[YouTube]] video | date=22 September 2013 | access-date=December 6, 2015}}

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