Khader Vali

Khader Vali, also spelled Khadar Valli Dudekula, residing in Mysore is a food and nutrition specialists, who advocates consumtion of millets to control life style diseases like diabetes, hypertension. He was awarded Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award by Government of India during 2023 and the same was handed over to him by President of India on 5 April 2023.

Early life and education
Born in Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh, he completed MSc in Regional institute of Education (RIE)Mysore and Phd in steroids at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and he became a postdoctoral fellow in Environmental science at Beaverton, Oregon, US.

Khader Vali was working in US as a scientist and returned to India during 1997. He is advocating the benefits of consuming millets in place of rice and wheat and is engaged in studying the benefits of millets since last 20 years. He also works on saving fertility of soil and right kind of agricultural practices.