- Tenure/Life Period: July 14, 1931 – November 5, 2014
- Association and Role within Society or Entity: Chairman of the Coimbatore District Co-operative Marketing Society.
- Contributions to the Cooperative Sector: Operating in the Coimbatore and Tiruppur districts, Sivasubramanian used his strong background in agricultural sciences to bridge the gap between technical farming and cooperative supply chains. He organized local cotton and turmeric cultivators into large marketing cooperatives, setting up modern grading, testing, and electronic auction halls managed entirely by the farmers themselves. This structural intervention broke the grip of private wholesale trading rings in the region and guaranteed that small farmers received prices aligned with global market rates.
- Awards and Recognitions: Conferred the National Agro-Cooperative Leadership Award in 2003 by the union ministry for his work in creating transparent, farmer-owned commodity trading platforms.
Dr. S. Sivasubramanian
Last Updated: 29/6/2026Category: Tamil Nadu