Yazar: Abhishek Raj

Dr. Manoj Kumar Jhariya is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Farm Forestry, Sant Gahira Guru Vishwavidyalaya (Formerly Sarguja University) Ambikapur (Chhattisgarh), India, and the author or co-author of more than 70 scientific papers, 12 books, 50 book chapters and several extension articles. Dr. Jhariya acquired B.Sc. (Agriculture), M.Sc. and Ph.D. (both in Forestry) degrees from Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. Dr. Jhariya was awarded a UGC-RGNF Fellowship, New Delhi, India, University Topper Gold Medal for Ph.D. and received the Chhattisgarh Young Scientist Award from Chhattisgarh Council of Science and Technology in 2013. He is an editorial board member for several journals and a life member of numerous societies. Dr. Arnab Banerjee is an assistant professor, Department of Environmental Science, Sant Gahira Guru Vishwavidyalaya, Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh, India. He has completed M.Sc. and Ph.D. (Environmental Science) from Burdwan University and M. Phil. in Environmental Science from Kalyani University, West Bengal. He won the University Gold Medal for securing first class first position in M.Sc. examination. He has been awarded Young Scientist Award for best oral presentation at the international conference held at the University of Burdwan. He was a project fellow under UGC-sponsored major research project. To his credit, he has published 70 research papers in reputed national and international journals, 11 books, and 30 book chapters. He is life member of the Academy of Environmental Biology. He has supervised 25 postgraduate students and engaged in Postgraduate Teaching and Research. Dr. Ram Swaroop Meenais working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agronomy, I.Ag. Scs., BHU, Varanasi (UP). Dr. Meena has been awarded Raman Research Fellowship by the MHRD, GOI. He has completed his postdoctoral research on soil carbon sequestration under Padma Shari Prof.Rattan Lal, World Food Prize 2020 Laureate, Director, CMASC, Columbus, USA. Dr. Meena has supervised 20 PG and 6 Ph D students, and have10 years of research and teaching experience. He is working on the three externally funded projects (DST, MHRD, ICAR) with one patent. Dr. Meena has published more than 110 research and review papers and have H-index  42, as well 4 published books at the national and 16 books (Springer, Elsevier, etc.) at the international levels, and contributed in the books with 15 chapters at national and 50 at the international levels. He has worked as an expert for the NCERT, MHRD, GOI. Dr. Meena is contributed in several agricultural extension activities, trainings, meetings, workshops, Dr. Sandeep Kumar Sihag is currently working as a scientist (Agronomy) at the ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Regional Station, Bhopal, India. Dr. Sihag is born in a farmer family in the village Jaswantpura, Tehsil Rajgarh, District Churu, Rajasthan, India. He had his schooling in the same village and graduated in Agriculture in 2013 from the College of Agriculture, Lalsot (SKRAU, Bikaner), Rajasthan. He has obtained his master from the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and the doctorate degree in Agronomy from Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, and securing first division in all the classes with triple NET, JRF, and SRF from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. His research interests have focused on enhancing resources use efficiencies for sustainable crop production. He has published 5 books and over 35 papers in leading national and international peer-reviewed journals and has also contributed to more than 20 book chapters. He has received numerous national awards, including Young Scientist, Best Research Scholar, and Best Master’s Thesis awards.  Dr. Abhishek Raj is working as an Assistant Professor at the School of Agriculture, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar (Punjab), India, and the author or co-author of more than 20 scientific papers, 2 books, 30 book chapters, and several extension articles with an H-index ~15. He acquired B.Sc. (Forestry) from SHUATS, Allahabad (U.P.), M.Sc. and Ph D. (both in Forestry) degrees from Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur (Chhattisgarh) India. He has qualified ICAR- NET (National Eligibility Test) in Agroforestry and received Young Scientist Award in 2016.