Dr. Jitender Mohan Singh Director Agro-Economic Research Centre Department of Economics & Sociology PAU, Ludhiana, Punjab (India) Phone: +91 98723 01032 (M) FAX: +91 161-2400945 E-mail: jmsingh@pau.edu jmsinghpau@rediffmail.com

   Dr. Jitender Mohan Singh is presently working as Director, Agro-Economic Research Centre, Department of Economics & Sociology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. His research area is Farm Management and Agricultural Marketing. He started his career as District Extension Specialist (Farm Management) and later worked as Deputy Director (Tr.), Krishi Vigyan Kendra. While working as extension personnel, he organized various short- duration and vocational trainings, field days, farmers training camps and Kisan Melas for farmer’s welfare. Besides, he acted as resource person in more than hundred farmer training camps organized by the Department of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, Punjab and allied departments. He made presentations in more than thirty ‘Research and Extension Specialist workshops’ organised by the Punjab Agricultural University. He also delivered numerous radio/ TV talks for the benefit of the farming community.

His major research work emphasized on investigating the economic aspects of different oilseed crops, supply chain of horticultural commodities, labour migration, resource use planning for sustainable agriculture and subsidiary occupations of farming. He has submitted eighteen research reports to the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, Govt. of India on various topical issues related to agriculture. Besides this, he acted as principal investigator (PI) in one and co-principal investigator (Co-PI) in two projects funded by reputed funding agencies. He has published more than sixty research papers in various journals of repute and thirty extension articles in various magazines/ newspapers. He teaches various courses related to Agricultural Economics. Presently, he is guiding two students for M.Sc. (Agricultural Economics) and two Ph.D. (Agricultural Economics) degree programmes while eleven students have completed Masters Degree under his supervision. Dr. Singh presented papers in different conferences held in the country and is associated with various professional societies and also held various offices in these societies.