Education:

B.Sc. Agri. (Hons.), Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana (1992)

M.Sc., Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab (1994)

Ph.D., Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab (2004)

Positions held: Assistant Agronomist, PAU Ludhiana (1995-2007), Agronomist (2007-2010), Senior Agronomist (2010-till date)

Field of Specialization: Organic Farming, Crop Production

Research Interests:

1. Integrated Farming Systems Research For Income Enhancement
2. Organic Farming Systems
3. Viable Resource Conservative Cropping Systems

Research Projects:

1. Integration of efficient farm enterprises for livelihood security of small and marginal farmers AICRP on Integrated farming system
2. Network project on organic farming
3. Integrated Farming Systems.
4. Nutrient management using peat based organic fertilizer in maize-potato-summer moong cropping system.
5. Boost to University Interdisplinary life science Departments for Education and Research (DBT-BUILDER programme).

Selected Research Publications (maximum upto 5):

1. Walia S S, Kaur T, Gupta R K, Siddiqui M H and Rahman M A (2023) Long-term impact of the continuous use of organic manures on crop and soil productivity under maize–potato–onion cropping systems. Sustainability 15 (10), 8254; https://doi.org/ 10.3390/su15108254. (NAAS: 9.89).
2. Walia S S, Babu S, Gill R S, Kaur T, Kohima N, Panwar A S, Yadav D K, Ansari M A, Ravishankar N, Kumar S, Kaur K, Ansari M H (2022) Designing resource-efficient and environmentally safe cropping systems for sustainable energy use and economic returns in Indo Gangetic Plains, India. Sustainability 14(21), 14636 (NAAS: 9.89).
3. Kaur J, Prusty A K, Ravisankar N, Panwar A S, Shamim M, Walia S S, Chatterjee S, Pasha M L, Babu S, Jat M L, Lopez-Ridaura S, Groot JCJ, Toorop R A, Escoto LB, Nopur K and Kashyap P (2021) Farm typology for planning targeted farming systems interventions for smallholders in IndoGangetic Plains of India. Scientific Reports 11: 20978. (NAAS: 11.0)
4. Das Ruma, Purakayastha TJ, Das Debarup, Ahmed Nayan, Kumar Rahul, Biswas Sunanda, Walia SS, Singh Rohitashav, Shukla VK, Yadava MS, Ravisankar N, Datta SC (2019) Long-term fertilization and manuring with different organics alter stability of carbon in colloidal organo-mineral fraction in soils of varying clay mineralogy. Science of The Total Environment 684: 682-693. (NAAS: 16.75).
5. Gosal S K, Kalia Anu, Uppal S K, Kumar Rajinder, Walia S S, Singh Kuldeep and Singh Harpal (2012) Assessing the benefits of Azotobactor bacterization in sugarcane: A field appraisal. Sugar Tech 14 (1): 61- 67. (NAAS 7.87)

Awards/Honours/Distinctions:

1. S.S. Labh Singh Gold Medal.
2. Dr. Gurbaksh Singh Gill Gold Medal.
3. Fellow, Society of Environmental Sciences.
4. Fellow, Indian Ecological Society.
5. Young Scientist Award got from Society for Recent Development in Agriculture.
6. ISA P. S. Deshmukh Young Agronomist Award (2005) by Indian Society of Agronomy
7. AICRP on integrated Farming System Ludhiana centre was considered as one of the best centres during QRT review for the period of 2006-07 to 2010-11.
8. Dr MS Randhawa Best Book Prize-2017.
9. Best Centre Award (2018-19) for Network Project on Organic Farming by IIFSR, Modipuram, Meerut
10. Dr H S Sandhu Memorial Award -2021
11. AICRP on Integrated Farming System, on-farm research centre received the Best Centre Award (2022) from ICAR- Indian Institute of Farming Systems Research, Modipuram, Meerut.