2020 Borlaug Field Award Ceremony
Salma Sultana
Salma Sultana, Founder and Chairman of the Model Livestock Advancement Foundation, received the 2020 Norman E. Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation. Sultana is recognized for her innovative model providing veterinary outreach, treatment and education to thousands of small-scale farmers in Bangladesh. She founded Bangladesh’s first vocational training institute to educate hundreds of livestock service providers and create sustainable employment opportunities, especially for women and young people.
Sultana’s passion for veterinary medicine led her to Chittagong Veterinary & Animal Sciences University (CVASU) in Bangladesh, where she received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 2010. She expanded her studies by undertaking postgraduate training in India at Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University. Sultana returned to CVASU and earned a master’s degree in pharmacology in 2014. While working on her master’s degree, she was concurrently employed as an Assistant Researcher at CVASU.