The National Film Award for Best Agriculture Film was one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It was one of several awards presented for non-feature films.
The award was instituted in 1984, at 32nd National Film Awards and awarded annually for non-feature films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. At the 70th National Film Awards, the award is discontinued and clubbed with National Film Award for Best Promotional Film, National Film Award for Best Scientific Film, National Film Award for Best Educational/Motivational/Instructional Film, National Film Award for Best Exploration/Adventure Film, National Film Award for Best Anthropological/Ethnographic Film, National Film Award for Best Investigative Film, National Film Award for Best Film on Social Issues and National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Environment/Conservation/Preservation Film, and two new categories were created; Best Documentary and Best Non Feature Film Promoting Social and Environmental Values.
Awards
Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus Award) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:
Awards legends
List of award films, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), producer(s) and director(s) Year Film(s) Language(s) Producer(s) Director(s) 1984 Krishi Jantrapati Hindi Ghanashyam Mahapatra Ghanashyam Mahapatra 1985 Cash in Cashew Cultivation English K. K. Garg D. Gautaman 1986 Three Spices: Cinnamon Part I English D. Gautaman Films Division D. Gautaman 1987 Angora For Wool English D. Gautaman Films Division K. Jagjivan Ram 1988 Seeds of Hope English M/s Eco Media Pvt Ltd. Romulus WhitakerShekar Dattatri 1989 Integrated Pest Management in Cotton English D. Gautaman K. Jagajivan Ram 1990 Golden Earth English BAIF Development Research Foundation Vishram Revankar 1991 Malberiyum Pattunoolum Malayalam Kerala State Film Development Corporation P. P. Govindan 1992 Ber English Om Prakash Sharma Films Division Rajgopal Rao 1993 Building From Below English N. G. Hegde Vishram Revankar 1994 No Award 1995 Drip and Sprinkler Irrigation Hindi L. K. Upadhyaya Films Division A. K. Goorha Films Division 1996 No Award 1997 Post Harvest Management of Potato Hindi Y. N. Engineer Films Division V. Packirisamy Films Division 1998 No Award 1999 No Award 2000 Vermi Culture(News Magazine 424) Hindi Kuldip Sinha Films Division A. R. Sharief Films Division 2001 No Award 2002 No Award 2003 Seeds of Life English Rajiv Mehrotra Usha Albuquerque 2004 No Award 2005 Seed Keepers Telugu English Rajiv Mehrotra Farida Pacha 2006 Jaivik Kheti Hindi Mr. Ravindra Alias Nitin Prabhakar BhosaleMrs. Mrunalini Ravindra Bhosale Mrunalini Ravindra Bhosale 2007 No Award 2008 The Land of Rupshupas English Films Division A. K. Sidhpuri 2009 In For Motion English Amlan Dutta Anirban Dutta 2010 No Award 2011 No Award 2012 Timbaktu English Public Service Broadcasting Trust Rintu ThomasSushmit Ghosh 2013 Foresting Life HindiAssamese Humanity Watchdog Foundation Aarti Shrivastava 2014 I Cannot Give You My Forest English Top Quark Films Pvt. Ltd. Nandan SaxenaKavita Bahl 2015 The Man Who Dwarfed The Mountains English Rajiv MehrotraPSBT Ruchi ShrivastavaSumit Sunderlal Khanna God on the Edge HindiEnglish Elements Picture Studio Ashok Patel 2016 The Tiger Who Crossed The Line English Krishnendu Bose Krishnendu Bose 2017 The Pangti Story Rajiv Mehrotra Sesino Yhoshü 2018 No Award 2019 No Award 2020 No Award 2021 Munnam Valavu Malayalam Sree Gokulam MoviesR S Pradeep
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives