Ravi Prakash, an Indian Ph.D. scholar has won the USD 25,000 the BRICS-Young Innovator Prize.

He has won for inventing an affordable indigenous milk chilling unit for smaller and marginal rural dairy farmers.

Prakash, Ph.D. scholar of ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Bangalore, was a part of a 21-member delegation sent to Brazil by the Department of Science and Technology for the 4th BRICS-Young Scientist Forum (YSF), 2019.

The BRICS Young Innovator Prize aims to recognise and reward the best results related to research, development and innovation projects that represent technological innovation and a potential contribution to the science and technology sector of the BRICS countries.