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 Shri L. C. Thirumalachari started his career as an engineering contractor to M.S. & M. Railways, following the footsteps of his father Sri. L. Rajagopalachari. Among other things, he was responsible for completing the construction of the Mukundarayapuram railway station in the land donated by his father who christened the station -
Mukundarayapuram.
Soon he chose farming as a career, rare during those days for a well-educated university graduate to settle with and founded an agricultural seed firm, The Raja Farm & Nursery. The Raja seeds had become a household name in the Southern Indian States. He became more beloved to friends and admirers in the Indian seed industry. History cannot forget the great contribution he made to the cause of the modern seed industry during the formative years of 50s through 70s, inculcating certain basic discipline and order in the Indian seed trade, by his broad-based organization - the much-appreciated activities of the association of trade.
With his involvement in the drafting and passage of the Indian Seed Act, 1966, he was acclaimed as the author of the seed act with which India is presently working. He served in all capacities of the seed industry during various periods of his long innings to the cause of seed, so dear to him. His later involvement during the formulation of systems for its implementation and his direct contribution in the highest policy making bodies like the Central Seed Committee, Central Variety Release Committee, Central Seed Certification Board, Horticulture Committee and so forth, are legendary.
Till his last breath, at the age of 91, he was personally carrying on his business sitting in the office for eight hours deriving the pleasure of meeting scores of farmers purely out of a sheer sense of maintaining the continuity of his service which had begun six decades ago. He has been recognized in the published reports of the USAID and Rockefeller Foundation, as the Father of Modern Indian Seed Industry. His involvement in SEED was not merely a personal business, but a common cause. The industry will always gratefully remember this doyen of the Indian Seed Industry, for what it is today.
Along side his direct administration of the seed firm, he was keeping abreast of the progress of Switzer Instrument Ltd., appropriately involving himself with its activities and presiding over its management.
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