Organizing Committee Member
Satbir Singh Sindhu
Professor
ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute
India
Biography
Dr. S.S. Sindhu has joined Agricultural Research Services (ARS) in 1990 as a Scientist in Horticulture at ICAR-IARI, New Delhi after completing Doctorate Degree in Horticulture. He has worked as Project Coordinator (Floriculture) in All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) in ICAR and Director (Hort.) at Rashtrapati Bhavan, President Secretariat, New Delhi. After having wide expertise in various positions, presently he is working as Head of the Division of Floriculture & Landscaping and School Coordinator, School of Horticulture at Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. His research areas are protected cultivation, landscape gardening and bulbous ornamental crops. His work on “off season chrysanthemum†through photo-periodic application and protected cultivation technology are among the major achievements. He has developed five varieties viz. Kt-3 of dahlia, Katrain Sel.-1 in daffodil & spontaneous mutant in gerbera, Pusa Kiran, Pusa Shubham in gladiolus. He has also developed promising varieties in Developed flower varieties Pusa Bahar, Pusa Deep in Marigold, Pusa Unnati, Pusa Srijan, Pusa Sinduri in Gladiolus, Pusa Mahak in Rose and Pusa Guldasta & Pusa Shwet in Chrysanthemum. He has guided 10 M.Sc. and 07 Ph. D and many of them are foreign students. He is teaching advance Courses in Commercial Floriculture & Landscape Design. He has published 85 research papers, 110 popular articles, 25 short communications, 15 books & bulletins and 40 lead papers. He has been honoured with DAHS Gold Medal, Dr. H. B. Singh Award, National Leaders Memorial Award and Bharat Jyoti Award for his meritorious work in the field of Floriculture and Landscaping. He is recipient of INSA fellowship of Japan under International Exchange Programme. He has been elected as Fellow of the Horticulture Society of India for his outstanding contribution and leadership in the field of Horticulture. Elected Fellow and secretary of Indian Society of Ornamental Horticulture awarded JSIL Fellowship He is Vice President of Rose Society of India, Secretary of Bougainvillea Society of India & ISOH. He has visited Japan, Kathmandu (Nepal), Islamabad (Pakistan), USA, Canada & China. He has many other credentials in the field of technical, management and administrative fields to his credit.
Research Area
Floriculture and Landscaping