Dr. S.K.Singh Joined Agriculture Research Services ARS in 1989 as a Scientist after completing of Master’s program at Banaras Hindu University Varanasi; moved to CAZRI Rajasthan as senior Scientist and was elevated to a principal scientist at CSSRI Karnal; was promoted to the Head regional Centre NBSS&LUP Kolkata and became Director of NBSS&LUP at Nagpur in 2014. Dr. Singh is trained in Remote Sensing and GIS and conducted pioneering research in land resource inventory and input based land use planning, efficient crop zoning, fallow land mapping, Bhoomi Geoportal and customized digital assistants; proactively involved popularizing natural resource management as discipline; launched a countrywide programme of Land Resource Inventory and land Use Planning for the Farmers; developed land use plan for the apparitional districts of India notified by NITI Aayog, New Delhi; coordinated the activities of Indian Science Congress Kolkata as president for Agriculture and Forestry Section and Clay Mineral Society of India, New Delhi; notable contribution global organic carbon mapping, soil organic carbon map of India and the concept of sustainable agriculture inclusive of arable and non-arable land; represented ICAR in FAO for Asian Soil Partnership and debated on land acquisition act before parliamentary committee, farm bills and participated in High level policy dialogue on the investment on agriculture research and education; reviewer of many international journals and the part of editorial board of Indian Journals; contributed 481 research items, of which 300 research papers for national and international repute, seven books, nine copyrights, many atlases, bulletins and monograph; established industry-institutional linkage and working on the convergence of Agro technologies across the disciplines for professional agriculture land use planning. Recipient of Indian Science Congress and FAI awards.
My citation: http://scholar.google.co.in/citation?user=sZ1XvmiAAAAJ&hi=en
Researchgate:http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Surendra Singh-32