Education: B.Sc. Economics (Hons.) Punjabi University, Patiala (2010); M.Sc. Agril. Economics, PAU, Ludhiana (2013); Ph.D. Agril. Economics, PAU, Ludhiana (2018)

Position held: Agricultural Economist (May 24, 2021 to till date)

Research Interest: Climate impact, Agricultural Marketing

Research Projects: Agricultural Marketing Innovations, Research and Intelligence Centre (AMIRIC)

Selected Publications

1. P Bhattacharyya, J Bisen, D Bhaduri,SPriyadarsini, S Munda, M Chakraborti, T Adak, P Seelvam, A K Mukherjee, S L Swain,P K Dash, S R Padhy, A K Nayak, H Pathak, Sunny Kumar and P Nimbrayan (2021) Economic and environmental gain of sustainable rice straw management practices over field burning: Turn the wheel from waste to wealth, Science of the Total Environment, 775: 1-17
2. Sunny Kumar and Baljinder Kaur Sidana (2019) Impact of Climate Change on Productivity of Rice and Wheat Crop in Indian Punjab, Economic & Political weekly 54(46): 38-46
3. Sunny Kumar and Baljinder Kaur Sidana (2019) Input use efficiency of climate resilient technologies by using data envelopmentanalysis, Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability 7(1): 13-22.
4. Sunny Kumar and Baljinder Kaur Sidana (2018) Farmers’ perceptions and adaptation strategies to climate change in Punjab Agriculture, Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 88(10):1573-581
5. M S Bhullar, Sukhpal Singh, Sunny Kumar and Gurjeet Gill (2018) Agronomic and Economic Impacts of Direct Seeded Rice in Punjab, Agricultural Research Journal 55 (2) : 236-242

Awards/Honours/Distinctions

ICSSR fellowship during doctoral programme

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