Curriculum Vitae

    Jay G.Varshney, Ph.D.
Director, National Research Centre for Weed Science and

National Project Coordinator, All India Coordinated Research Program on Weed Control

Jabalpur – 482 004, India. Email: jgvarshney@rediffmail.com, URL: nrcws.org
Ph: +91-761-; 2353 001/138 (Direct), 2353101, 2353934 Extn: 301; Fax: +91-761-2353129

                 
Over 34 years research, managerial and teaching experience in the field of Agronomy (Weed science) including 24 years as Principal Research Scientist (equivalent to University Professor) in Agricultural Research Services of ICAR (Govt. of India).

·     Ph.D. in Agronomy with specialization in weed science with over 3 decades of experience in weed management and cropping systems research in different food crops at different parts of the country.

·     Director, National Research Centre for Weed Science and National Coordinator, All India Coordinated Research Project on Weed Control, Jabalpur, India. Responsible for providing leadership in weed science at national level. Also responsible to plan, implement, coordinate and monitor the research programme at NRCWS and net work centres of all India coordinated research project throughout India.

·    National Project Coordinator of all India coordinated research project on improvement of prominent grain legume crops (mungbean, urdbean, lentil, lathyrus, French beans and field peas) covering almost 10 million hectares area through researches carried out at more than 30 research centers in the country.

·     Head, Division of Crop Production at Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur. Responsible for planning and monitoring of research programs of cropping systems research and integrated nutrient and water management of the target pulses and pulses based cropping systems in addition of the divisional administrative work and own research programs.

·    Founder Head of Regional Center of Directorate of Pulses Research at Gwalior (M.P.) Responsible for planning, monitoring, guiding the research programs. Also responsible for establishing the center and also other related activities of accounts, stores and finance.

A. Regular, full time

·                     2006 – contd. Director, National Research centre for Weed Science and National  Coordinator, All India Coordinated Research Program on Weed Control, Jabalpur – 482 004, India.

·         1987-2006 Principal Research Scientist (Weed Science), Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur.

·         1985-1987 Principal Research Scientist (Weed Science), Regional Center, Directorate of Pulses, Gwalior.

·         1982-1984:  Principal Research Scientist (Weed Science), I.C.A.R. Research Complex for N.E.H. Region, Shillong.

·         1976-1982: Senior Research Scientist (Weed Science), ICAR Research Complex for N.E.H.Region, Shillong.

·         1975-1976: Scientist (Agronomy), ICAR Research Complex for N.E.H.Region, Shillong.

·          1972-1975: Senior Research Assistant (Agronomy), Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa.

·          1970-1972: Lecturer, R.B.S.College, Bichpuri (Agra University), Agra.

B. Special Assignments

·         2006–contd. Principal investigator, DBT Project “Large scale demonstration of Parthenium management through integrated approaches”

·          1999-2000: Head, Division of Crop Production, Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur.

·          995-1999: Project Coordinator, All India Coordinated Research Project on Improvement of Mullarp (Mungbean, Urdbean, Lentil, Lathyrus, French beans and Peas) crops.

·          1995-1999 Principal investigator, Adhoc project “Nut sedge management in field crops with particular emphasis on pulses”

·          1995-2001: Editor, Indian Journal of Pulses Research, Kanpur.

·           1985-1987: Head, Regional center, Directorate of Pulses Research, Gwalior (M.P.)

·     My current research program encompasses the long-term effect of different factors on weed community dynamics and sustainability in rice-chickpea/lentil cropping system. I have worked particularly on the effects of crop sequences, intercropping systems, tillage, agro technology and weed management practices through herbicidal and non herbicidal means on dynamics of weed flora in both plant and seed bank communities in corn-chickpea, chickpea+mustard, urdbean-chickpea, pigeon pea+ mungbean/urdbean etc for sustainability under various situations.

·     Weed biology, ecology and management of purple nut sedge in different crops and cropping systems both through non-herbicidal and herbicidal means to understand the mechanism of allelopathy on management of weed flora in different cropping system.

·     Effect of adjuvant in tank mixing with herbicides for management of weeds in wheat to curtail herbicidal doses.

·     Biology and ecology of prominent weeds and their management in different crops like rice, wheat, corn, soybean, food legumes etc in different crop situations and environment.

(As Project Leader, in reverse order of execution)

1. Studies on the effect of herbicides on weed dynamics and productivity in prominent cropping systems under varying situations (2003-08)

2. Integrated weed management in rice-lentil, maize-chickpea and chickpea+ mustard cropping system. (1997-03)

3. Studies on integrated management of weeds in pulses (1988-96)

4. Agro-ecological studies in lentil and field pea (1988-92)

5. Studies on cropping systems research involving pulses (1985-87)

6. Studies on the effect of adjuvant on the efficacy of select herbicides on the control of noxious weeds in wheat on vertisols (1979-82)

7. Studies on management of weeds in prominent crops in Meghalaya (1983-84)

   8.    Development of Production technology of prominent crops in Meghalaya (1976-79)

As an associate

1. Allelopathic effect of root exudates and plant abstracts of some plant species on important weed flora of pulse crops

2. Designing and development of new cropping systems for irrigated areas

Ad-hoc Research Projects

1. A research project entitled, `Studies on integrated management on nut sedge in field crops with particular emphasis on pulses" was sanctioned by ICAR under adhoc Cess Fund scheme

Academia

1. M.Sc. (Ag.) Agronomy (1970) with top rank in the university
2. Ph.D. Weed Science (1984) with Sandoz Assistant ship

As Director, National Research centre for Weed Science

·     Responsible to provide leadership  in weed science at national level and coordinate the network research with State Agricultural Universities for generating location-specific technologies for weed management in different crops, cropping and farming systems in India.

·     Responsible for planning, implementing, coordinating and monitoring the basic and applied researches for developing efficient weed management strategies in different agro-ecological zones of the country.

·     Responsible to develop a state of the art repository of information in weed science.

·     Responsible to provide training on research methodologies in the areas of weed science and weed management.

·     Responsible to collaborate with national and international agencies in achieving the above mentioned goals

·      Responsible to provide consultancy on matters related to weed science.

As National Project Coordinator, All India Coordinated Research Program on Weed Control:

·    Responsible for planning, executing and monitoring the different research programs on weed management like survey of weed flora, mapping, their distribution, ecology and habitat; identification of new herbicides and working out weed competition threshold levels; development of effective and economic location specific weed control technologies for field and plantation crops and aquatic bodies; studying the long term residual and cumulative effects, if any, of  herbicides; monitoring the herbicide residues in soil, water and food chain, being taken up at the 26 cooperating centres situated at different State Agricultural universities all over the Country.

·    Responsible for organizing the group meets workshops through out the country to meet the above targets.

·     Responsible for compilation and editing the annual reports of all the cooperating centers.

·    Responsible for maintaining liaison with ICAR headquarters, different State Agricultural Universities, state governments, national and international organizations to meet the above targets.

·    Responsible to manage the release of funds to different universities where the cooperating Centers are located.

As National Project Coordinator in target pulse crops.

Microsoft Office 2003, Power point, MS Excel, Handling statistical analysis software etc.