Grigol Keshelashvili | |
Honorific Suffix: | Professor |
Native Name: | გრიგოლ ქეშელაშვილი |
Other Names: | Григол Николаевич Кешелашвили |
Birth Date: | 31 August 1906 |
Birth Place: | Tbilisi, Georgian SSR |
Death Date: | 1994 |
Nationality: | Georgian |
Education: | Agricultural Institute of Georgia |
Occupation: | Professor, agronomist, agricultural scientist, writer |
Years Active: | 1931–1994 |
Spouse: | Elizabed Mkheidze |
Children: | Omar Keshelashvili, Nikoloz Keshelashvili |
Family: | Keshelashvili |
Awards: | Order of the Red Banner of Labour |
Grigol Nikolaevich Keshelashvili (Georgian: გრიგოლ ნიკოლოზის ძე ქეშელაშვილი, Russian: Григол Николаевич Кешелашвили) was a Georgian agronomist, agricultural scientist, professor and an Honored Worker of Sciences of the СССР of Georgia.[1] [2]
In 1931, he graduated from the Agricultural Institute of Georgia. In 1938–1981, he was the head of the General Agriculture Department of the same institute. He studied the main issues of soil cultivation for field crops in Georgia, as well as weeds and means of fighting them. Author of textbooks: "Farming and Planting" (1964); "General Farming" (co-author, 1975); "Fundamentals of Agriculture" (co-author, 1972); "Georgian weed vegetation and means of combating it" (1966) and others. Awarded with the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and medals.