Education: B. Sc. Agri. (Hons.), CCS HAU, Hisar (2002); M. Sc. (Agronomy), PAU Ludhiana (2005); Ph. D. (Agronomy), CCS HAU, Hisar (2017)
Positions held: Assistant Professor, KVK, Gurdaspur (April 2008 – April 2010); KVK, Fatehgarh Sahib (April 2010- November 2011); Assistant Seed Production Specialist, University Seed Farm, Nabha (November 2011 - July 2019); Agronomist, Department of Agronomy, PAU, Ludhiana (July 2019 - November 2020); Agronomist, School of Organic Farming, PAU, Ludhiana (November 2020 – September 2021); Agronomist, Department of Agronomy, PAU, Ludhiana (September 2021 - till date)
Field of Specialization: Water Management, Weed Science, Organic and integrated crop management
Research Interests: Enhancing the efficiency of agricultural water use in field crops; Crop-water-weed-fertilizer interaction studies for maintaining long-term productivity; Safe food production and conservation of natural resources.
Selected Research Publications:
Sindhu V K, U S Tiwana and K P Puri. 2006. Effect of preceding crops on forage quality of maize and pearl millet under different nitrogen levels. Forage Research 32 (1): 63-65.
Tiwana U S, V K Sindhu and K P Puri. 2006. Effect of winter crops on the growth, yield and economics of succeeding fodder maize and pearl millet under different nitrogen levels. Forage Research 31 (4): 244-047.
Walia U S, Manpreet Singh and V K Sindhu. 2006. Studies on the carry-over effects of sulfosulfuron applied to wheat on the succeeding crops. Indian Journal of Weed Science 38 (1 & 2): 123-26.
Kaur Maninder, U S Walia and V K Sindhu. 2007. Bio-efficacy of herbicides for the control of isoproturon resistance Phalaris minor Retz. and their residual effect on succeeding crops. Indian Journal of Weed Science 39 (1&2): 126-128.
Punia S S, Samunder Singh, D B Yadav, V K Sindhu and Anil Duhan. 2017. Abundance, distribution and diversity of weeds in wheat in Haryana. Indian Journal of Weed Science 49 (2): 187–190.
Chaudhary A, R S Chhokar, D B Yadav, Sindhu V K, H Ram, S Rawal, R S Khedwal, R K Sharma and S C Gill. 2019. In situ paddy straw management practices for higher resource use efficiency and crop productivity in Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) of India. Journal of Cereal Research 11 (3): 172-198.
Awards/Honours/Distinctions:
- APWSS Travel Award 2017 by Asian-Pacific Weed Science Society in recognition of outstanding abstract of doctoral research to attend 26th APWSS conference from September 19-22, 2017 at Kyoto, Japan.
- IWSS Travel Grant Award 2016 by International Weed Science Society to present doctoral research at 7th International Weed Science Congress from June 19-25, 2016 at Prague, Czech Republic.
- Best poster award during 4th International Agronomy Congress during November 22-26, 2016 at New Delhi.
- ICAR-Junior Research Fellowship during M.Sc. Agronomy.
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