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Harmandeep Singh
Deputy Director
Flat No. D-101, SATIN BRICK, Survey No. 56, Kharadi, Near Aaple Ghar Housing Society, Pune 411014, Maharashtra, India
Phone: +91.9372.730.895
FAX:
hsingh@ipni.net
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Harmandeep Singh Deputy Director
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Dr. Harmandeep Singh officially joined the staff of IPNI as Deputy Director, South Asia Program-West Region, effective July 1, 2008 and has established an office in Pune. He received his Ph.D. in 2005 in Soils at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), in Ludhiana, India. He earlier earned his Master’s degree in 2001 and B.S. in 1999 at the same university. From 2006 until 2008, Dr. Khurana was Postdoctoral Associate, Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition, in the Department of Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg. In that responsibility, he modified and tested a soil-water-plant-atmosphere simulation model related to site-specific management and analyzed the fate of excess N in soil and water. From 2005 to 2006, he served on the staff at PAU as an Assistant Professor, Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition, with 100% research responsibility. Dr. Khurana has received numerous awards and recognition for academic and research achievements, and is the author or co-author of several research publications.
Education:Ph.D. Soils, Minor: Chemistry, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India, 2005 M.Sc. Soils, Minor: Chemistry, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India, 2001 B.Sc. Agriculture (Honors in Soil Science), Punjab Agricultural University, India, 1999
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ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
Best all round postgraduate student of the Punjab Agricultural University Award, 2002
Best all round postgraduate student of the College of Agriculture Award, 2002
Best all round postgraduate student of the Department of Soils Award, 2002
Successfully cleared the National Eligibility Test (NET) for Lecturership/ Assistant Professorship by Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board (ASRB), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi, India, 2001
Obtained All India Rank 26 in the Combined Entrance Examination for ICAR’s Junior Research Fellowship and admission to Master’s program, 1999
First position in B.S. Agriculture (with honors in Soil Science) of the Punjab Agricultural University Award, 1999
Awarded University Merit Scholarship and Fellowships throughout BS, MS, and PhD
RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS
My paper ‘Performance of Site-specific Nutrient Management in Rice’ published in Agronomy Journal was selected for the ‘Research Highlight Program’ of the American Society of Agronomy and its summary was published in the news magazine, the News Flash, society homepages, and press releases, 2007
Best Paper Poster Award, 9th Punjab Science Congress, 2006
All-India Best Ph.D. Thesis Presentation Award, Indian Society of Soil Science, 2005
Young Scientist Award, Punjab Academy of Sciences, 2003
Best M.S. Dissertation Presentation Award, Indian Society of Soil Science, 2002
My M.S. research work results were used to recommend to the Punjab farmers the use of nitrophosphates in wheat, maize, and potato crops, 2001 |
Served as ad-hoc reviewer for the following journals:
Soil Science Society of America Journal: 3 articles
Agronomy Journal: 4 articles
Field Crops Research: 2 articles
Crop Management: 1 article
Journal of the Indian Society of Soil Science: 2 articles
Industrial Crops and Products: 1 article
Chaired ‘Nitrogen and Crop Production’ session at the annual tri-society (ASA-CSSA-SSSA) meetings in New Orleans, USA, 2007.
Member of Purchase and Budget committee, Department of Soils, PAU, India, 2005-06 |
Edited Book
Kumaragamage D., T. Satyanarayana, Harmandeep Singh, and K. Majumdar (Editors). 2009. Use of Phosphorus and Potassium Fertilizers in Sri Lankan Agriculture. Intl. Plant Nutrition Inst. (IPNI), Gurgaon, Haryana, India. pp. 197.
Translated Book
Tiwari, K.N., K. Majumdar, and Harmandeep Singh. 2008. Diagnosis and Correction of Potassium Deficiency in Major Crops (In Hindi & English simultaneously). Translated in Hindi from Chinese, and published by Intl. Plant Nutrition Inst. (IPNI)-Canpotex-Indian Potash Limited (IPL). pp. 80.
Book Chapter
Harmandeep Singh, K. Majumdar, and T. Satyanarayana. 2009. Crop, soil, and nitrogen fertilization management strategies to reduce nitrate accumulation in plants. Submitted Sept. 30, 2009.
Review Article
Johnston, A.M., H.S. Khurana, K. Majumdar, and T. Satyanarayana. 2009. Site-Specific Nutrient Management – Concept, Current Research and Future Challenges in Indian Agriculture. J. Indian Soc. Soil Sci. 57(1):1-10.
Research Articles
1. Srivastava, A.K., Shyam Singh, V.S. Diware, and Harmandeep-Singh. 2009. Site-specific nutrient management in ‘Mosambi’ Sweet Orange. Better Crops-India 3(1):10-11.
2. Yadav, G.S., D. Kumar, Y.S. Shivay, and Harmandeep-Singh. 2009. Zn-enriched urea improves grain yield and quality of aromatic rice. Better Crops-India 3(1):16-17.
3. Khurana, H.S., Bijay-Singh, A. Dobermann, S.B. Phillips, A.S. Sidhu, and Yadvinder-Singh. 2008. Site-Specific Nutrient Management Performance in a Rice-Wheat Cropping System. Better Crops with Plant Food 92(4):26-28.
4. Khurana, H.S., S.B. Phillips, Bijay-Singh, M.M. Alley, A. Dobermann, A.S. Sidhu, Yadvinder-Singh, and S. Peng. 2008. Agronomic and economic evaluation of site-specific nutrient management for irrigated wheat in northwest India. Nutr. Cycl. Agroecosys. 82:15-31.
5. Khurana, H.S., S.B. Phillips, Bijay-Singh, A. Dobermann, A.S. Sidhu, Yadvinder-Singh, and S. Peng. 2007. Performance of site-specific nutrient management for irrigated, transplanted rice in northwest India. Agron. J. 99(6): 1436-1447.
6. Saroa, G.S. and H.S. Khurana. 2007. Comparison of nitrophosphates in affecting sorption, desorption and availability of phosphorus in an Inceptisol under long-term wheat-maize cropping system. Environ. Ecol. 25S(1):188-193.
7. Khurana, H.S., G.S. Saroa, and A.C. Vig. 2004. Nitrophosphates and DAP are equally effective as P fertilizers for various crop species grown in rotation on a Typic Haplustept. Nutr. Cycl. Agroecosyst. 68(3):273-281.
8. Khurana, H.S., G.S. Saroa, and A.C. Vig. 2003. Reaction products of phosphorus as influenced by texture, moisture, temperature, rate and nature of phosphatic fertilizers. J. Indian Soc. Soil Sci. 51(2):199-203.
9. Khurana, H.S., G.S. Saroa, and A.C. Vig. 2003. Direct and residual effect of nitrophosphates of varying water solubility on crop yield and Olsen-P in a Typic Haplustept. J. Indian Soc. Soil Sci. 51(1):51-55.
Proceedings
1. Khurana H.S., Sidhu A.S., Bijay Singh, and Yadvinder Singh. 2009. "Performance of Site-Specific Nutrient Management in a Rice-Wheat Cropping System". The Proceedings of the International Plant Nutrition Colloquium XVI. Paper 1338.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/ipnc/xvi/1338
2. Satyanarayana, T., H.S. Khurana, and K. Majumdar. 2009. Current status of fertilizer use in India with reference to agro-ecological zones and crops. In Proc. Short course on site-specific integrated nutrient management in rice and rice-based cropping systems, 4-13 February, Directorate of Rice Research, Hyderabad, India. pp 60-68.
3. Phillips, S.B., H.S. Khurana, and W.E. Thomason. 2007. Changes in nitrogen use efficiency of winter wheat using various in-season methods of determining topdress N requirement. In Proc. 10th Punjab Sci. Cong. 7-9 February, Jalandhar, Punjab, India.
4. Phillips, S.B., W.E. Thomason, and H.S. Khurana. 2006. Defining useful limits for spectral reflectance measurements in corn. In Proc. 8th Int. Conf. on Precision Agric. 23-26 July, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
5. Khurana, H.S., Samudar-Dan, and A.S. Sidhu. 2005. On-farm evaluation of SPAD-based strategies for efficient nitrogen management of irrigated, transplanted rice in Punjab. In Proc. 8th Punjab Sci. Cong. 7-9 February, Patiala, Punjab, India.
6. Khurana, H.S., G.S. Saroa, and A.C. Vig. 2003. Efficacy of nitrophosphates in P nutrition of crops and P dynamics in soil. In Proc. 6th Punjab Sci. Cong. 7-9 February, Longowal, Punjab, India.
Abstracts
1. Khurana, H.S., A.S. Sidhu, Yadvinder-Singh, Bijay-Singh, and S.B. Phillips. 2006. Performance of site-specific nutrient management for improving productivity of wheat under wheat-rice cropping system in Punjab, India. In Agronomy abstracts CD-ROM. ASA-CSSA-SSSA, Madison, WI.
Phillips, S.B., W.E. Thomason, P.H. Davis, and H.S. Khurana. 2006. Variable-rate N fertilization of wheat and corn in Virginia. In Agronomy abstracts CD-ROM. ASA-CSSA-SSSA, Madison, WI. |
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