This conservator of agricultural diversity has saved many rice varieties from the brink of extinction
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Syed Ghani Khan, a farmer from Kirugavalu, Mandya district, fulfills childhood dream by establishing Karnataka’s unique rice varieties museum. Khan, once aspiring museologist, now curator of his own museum, realizing passion for heritage conservation.
A childhood passion for heritage conservation and an unfulfilled desire of chalking out a career as a museologist culminated in this farmer conceiving his own museum — of rice varieties — which is one of its kind in Karnataka.
As a student, Syed Ghani Khan of Kirugavalu in Malavalli taluk of Mandya district nurtured a desire of entering the field of archaeology and museums and pursued his studies to in the hope of becoming the curator of a museum.
