Education

B.Sc. (Ag) MGKVP, Varanasi, U.P. (2014); M.Sc. (Soil Science) CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana (2016) and Ph.D. (Soil Science) GBPUA&T, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand (2020)

Position Held: Assistant Professor cum Junior Scientist, BAU, Ranchi (2019-2020), Pedologist, PAU, Ludhiana (November, 2020 onwards)

Field of Specialization: Soil Chemistry/ Fertility, Soil Mineralogy, Pedology

Research Interests:

1. Nutrients dynamics and mineralogy under long term

2. In-situ straw management impacts on soil mineralogical composition

Research Publications (Maximum up to 10)

1. Dhaliwal SS, Sharma V, Shukla AK, Kaur J, Gupta RK, Verma V, Kaur N, Vijay Kant Singh and Singh P (2023) Interactive effect of land use systems on depth-wise soil properties and micronutrients minerals in North-Western, India. Heliyon. NAAS: 9.78
2. Meena SS, Srivastava A, Meena HM, Vijay Kant Singh, Kumar V and Meena BR (2022) Consequences of agro-forestry and rice-wheat based cropping system on soil micronutrients status in Mollisols of Uttarakhand. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis. 1-12. NAAS: 7.58
3. Mandal A, Toor AS, Dhaliwal SS, Singh P, Vijay Kant Singh, Sharma V, Gupta RK, Naresh RK, Kumar Y, Pramanick B, et al. (2022) Long-term field and horticultural crops intensification in semiarid regions influence the soil physiobiochemical properties and nutrients status. Agronomy, 12, 1010. NAAS: 9.42
4. Dhaliwal SS, Sharma V, Kaur J, Shukla AK, Hossain A, Abdel-Hafez SH, Gaber A, Sayed S and Vijay Kant Singh (2022) The Pedospheric variation of DTPA-Extractable Zn, Fe,Mn, Cu and other physicochemical characteristics in major soil orders in existing land use systems of Punjab, India. Sustainability, 14, 29. NAAS: 9.89
5. Luthra N, Srivastava A, Chobhe KA and Vijay Kant Singh (2022). Soil test crop response approach for optimizing integrated plant nutrients supply to achieve targeted yield of hybrid maize (Zea mays L.) in Mollisols, Annals of Plant and Soil Research, 24(1): 53-58. NAAS: 5.22
6. Vijay Kant Singh, Gautam P, Nanda G, Dhaliwal SS, Pramanick B, Meena SS, Alsanie WF, Gaber A, Sayed S and Hossain A (2021). Soil test based fertilizer application improves productivity, profitability and nutrient use efficiency of rice (Oryza sativa L.) under direct seeded condition. Agronomy, 11, 1756. NAAS: 9.42
7. Ayushi, Srivastva A, Vijay Kant Singh, Sen S. and Singh V. (2021). Soil test-based optimum integrated plant nutrient supply for attaining targeted yield of finger millet in Mollisols of northern India. Agricultural Research, 1-8. NAAS: 5.95
8. Ankush, Ram Prakash, Kumar R, Singh V, Harender and Vijay Kant Singh (2020). Soil microbial and nutrient dynamics influenced by irrigation-induced salinity and sewage sludge incorporation in sandy-loam textured soil, Int. Agrophys., 34, 451-462. NAAS: 7.63
9. Vijay Kant Singh, Gautam P, Singh K, Sen S, Kumar V, Meena SS and Singh DN (2020). Evaluation of soil test methods for available nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium in direct seeded rice-wheat cropping sequence. Journal of AgriSearch, 7(2): 74-81. NAAS: 4.71
10. Vijay Kant Singh, Ram Prakash, Rajpaul, Kumar S, Singh K and Satyavan (2017). Evaluation of Groundwater Quality for Irrigation in Gulha Block of Kaithal District in Haryana, Journal of Soil Salinity and Water Quality, 9(2), 241-248. NAAS: 4.94

Awards/Honour’s/Distinctions

· ICAR­ Senior Research Fellowship in Ph.D. by ICAR, New Delhi in 2016.

• Agricultural Scientist Recruitment Board (ASRB): ICAR-NET Qualified in 2017, 2018 and 2019.