Jadav Payeng
Known as the "Forest Man of India", he turned a bare sandbar in the Brahmaputra into a forest of over a thousand acres, mostly by himself.
- Padma Shri 2015
- Assam
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Rahibai Soma Popere
A self-taught tribal farmer from Maharashtra who built a community seed bank to save native crop varieties, honoured with the Padma Shri.
- Padma Shri 2020
- Maharashtra