Dr. Jay Shankar Singh

Dr. Singh has contributed significantly in the area of natural resource management and has demonstrated to the farmers in field condition that pyrite, coal fly ash (FA), crop residues based FYM and rice husk biochar (RHB) amendments to enhance the paddy crop productivity, green house gas CH4 mitigation and restoration of degraded land soil fertility. He developed Pyrite, Press mud and FYM amendments to enhance soil CH4 oxidizing bacterial diversity and rehabilitation of saline waste lands. FA incorporation to the nutrient poor agriculture soils has been adopted as fortified microbial inoculants carrier for nutrient availability to paddy crop. Currently the open crop residue burning is leading to air pollution and loss of beneficial soil microbial diversity. Dr. Singh’s group has developed conventional tools (drum method in low pyrolysis conditions) for RHB production and its application with microbial inoculants in soil fertility restoration and paddy productivity enhancement in nutrient poor soils.