Coordinated Rice Improvement Project, Hyderabad (which was later named
as Directorate of Rice Research and presently named as Indian Institute of
Rice Research) for a year under Rockefeller foundation support with Dr .
Wayne H. Freeman, during which period he spent 6 months at Maruteru in
Godavari delta of Andhra Pradesh the starting point of BPH attack in India
and later became the hot-spot for the pest,
After securing senior fellowship of Indian Council of Agricultural Research
(I.C.A.R.), he joined for Ph.D. Program at Punjab Agricultural University
Ludhiana, in November 1973 with Dr R. L. Kalra and completed in 1977
with Insect Toxicology as major. He joined back to Directorate of Rice
Research as Scientist in Entomology after getting selected under newly
formed Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of I.C.A.R. He continued
his main interest of studies on insecticide utilization in rice crop pest
management with major emphasis on BPH. He could conduct detailed
ecological studies on BPH at Maruteru for 4 seasons and also studied
many aspects of host plant resistance to BPH.
The author published more than 100 research papers in national and
international journals in majority of them as the first author. Before
retirement in 2008, he compiled all his work along with relevant world
literature as a book entitled “Insecticides in Rice IPM, Past, Present and
Future” published by DRR.
The author continues to keep himself in touch with farmers in general and
rice farmers in particular and guide them on continuing basis throughout
the season. Apart from BPH, Rice Entomology, Rice Cultivation, he has
practical knowledge on other subjects of agriculture and many other
crops of both agriculture and horticulture. He is frequent writer to local
agricultural magazines on many issues to educate farmers on critical
aspects of maintaining soil fertility and sustaining crop productivity and
crop protection.
