Brief Introduction

Dr Manmohanjit Singh joined PAU as Asstt. Professor (Soil Science) in Feb., 1996, elevated to Associate Professor in 2005 and to Professor in 2011. He worked in extension services of the university at KVK, Ferozepur, FASC Hoshiarpur, KVK Hoshiarpur and FASC Mohali. He worked as Director of Regional Research Station, Ballowal Saunkhri and Chief Scientist of AICRP on Dryland Agriculture and Nodal officer for GKMS project for 8 years.

He is recipient of JRF by ICAR and Dr N S Randhawa Gold medal in M.Sc. studies. He received Sumer Memorial Best Extension Scientist Award from Soil Conservation Society of India in Feb., 2015, appreciation certificate from PAU in March, 2018, best responsive centre award as team leader for AICRP for Dryland Agriculture for 2016-2018 and Best Outstation Scientist Award from PAU in 2019. He started 2-year Diploma in Agriculture at RRS, Ballowal Saunkhri. He initiated the idea of College of Agriculture at Ballowal Saunkhri, submitted proposal to the state government and state government sanctioned this project of about Rs. 50 crores out of which more than 20 crores have been received for infrastructure development.

He served as member Fellows Committee and Applied Research Award committee of Soil Science Society of America and chaired session in International Conference on Combating Land Degradation in Agricultural Areas (LANDCON1010) held in China during 2010. He was executive member of Soil Conservation Society of India and Indian Society of Dryland Agriculture. He has attended various international workshops / seminars in countries like USA, China, Australia, Italy, Bangladesh, Nepal etc. He successfully organized national and regional workshops and organized one international training with participants from Afghanistan at RRS, Ballowal Saunkhri.

He is associated with more than 15 international research journals as reviewer and is member editorial board of three journals. He has authored about 260 research and extension publications. He bagged 4 research projects as PI and 12 research projects as Co-PI which were sponsored by DST, New Delhi; Ministry of Water Resources, New Delhi; SRTT, Mumbai; TERI, New Delhi; MSSRF, Chennai; NMPB, Delhi and IPRO-GIZ Germany.

He guided four M.Sc. students and one Ph.D. student. He organized 14 regional level Kisan Melas, addressed more than 400 farmers training camps, field days, campaigns, surveys, about 300 farmers’ field demonstrations and provided advisory services to thousands of farmers through field visits etc. He has nine recommendations to his credit.