Faig Mammadov

Faig Ismail oglu Mammadov (1929 to 1987) was an Azerbaijani agronomist who specialized in cottonseed. Born in Kirovabad, he studied fruit and vegetable growing and viticulture at Azerbaijan State Agricultural University, graduating in 1951, took a candidate degree in agricultural sciences in 1957 and a doctorate in 1974 with a thesis on the centralized preparation of cotton seed for planting. He worked at the university from 1955 and in the State Land Commissariat, headed its department of general agriculture, served as dean of faculty from 1973 to 1980 and became the first Azerbaijani professor in agriculture. His research covered cottonseed farming, seed preparation for sowing and sowing systems, and with his former advisor N. I. Malov he was a main author of a large study of delinting, sorting, calibrating and processing cottonseed. He was named Honoured Agronomist of the Azerbaijan SSR in 1980.