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1. Name: Dr. Vijay Singh Thakur

2. Present Position: Associate Director

(Research & Extension)

3. Qualification: Ph.D.

4. Fellowship/Awards: ICAR, Jr/Sr. scholarship

INSA International fellowship

5. 
   Discipline: Plant Pathology
   

6. Specialization: Disease forecasting and integrated management

7. Mission: Sustainable crop production technologies

8. Work Experience: 25 years

i) Teaching: 6 years

ii) Research 22 years

iii) Administration 10 years

9. International Exposure:

1. 
   Visiting Scientist to Horticulture Research International, East Malling, UK for collaborated research work on Fruit diseases forecasting and modeling.
   
2. 
   Visiting Scientist to Institute for Plant Protection of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary for advance training and research work on Bio-control management of plant pathogens.
   
3. 
   Visiting Scientist to Federal Centre for Breeding Research on Cultivated Plants, Institute of Fruit Breeding, Dresden, Germany for advance training and research work on Molecular diagnosis of plant diseases.
   
4. 
   Visiting Scientist for advance training on integrated forecasting technique and software programming development of an integrated apple crop yield, diseases and insect-pests at New York State Agricultural Experimental Station, Cornell University, Geneva, NY, USA under World Bank/NATP/ICAR funded project.
   
5. 
   Invited for International Conferences and meetings in UK (Brighton Crop Protection Conference, 1994), Austria (European Plant Pathology conference, 2002), Germany (European Plant Pathology conference, 2003), China (International Plant Protection Congress, 2004), Singapore (Asian Plant Pathology Conference, 2005), India (Global Conference, 2005) South Korea (27^th International Horticultural Congress, 2006), Scotland (XVI International Plant Protection Congress, 2007), Serbia (First Balkan conference, 2011), Switzerland (Visiting scientist, 2011) and several national conferences and symposia.
   

10. Research Activities:

1. Principal Investigator to Himachal Pradesh Center on the project Epidemiology and Integrated management of apple scab, ICAR- All India net work research project (1988-1998)
2. Principal Investigator to DST, Govt. of India – Young Scientists Research Project. The project is “Changes in the Microbial population of Apple Scab litter associated with the inhibition of the perfect stage of Venturia inaequalis in relation to urea treatment (1990-1993)
3. Principal Investigator to the project funded by National Horticulture Board, GOI, on the “Management of peach leaf curl and other foliar diseases of stone fruits in Himachal Pradesh” (1993-95)
4. Principal Investigator to the “Development of computer based weather monitoring and disease-warning system for integrated management of apple diseases” (1999-2002)
5. Principal Investigator to the “Validation and Promotion of IPM Technology in Apple crop”. World Bank funded NATP Mission Mode Sub-Project (2001-2003)

6. Principal Investigator to the “Epidemiology and Integrated management of Apple Scab.” HP State Govt. funded research project (1998-2003).

7. National Principal Investigator to the World Bank funded project on “Development of an Integrated Forecasting and Management system on Apple crop yields, Diseases and Insect-pests for Sustainable production in Himachal Pradesh.”
8. Indian Coordinator to European Commission International Collaboration project on “Sustainable Production of Apple and Pear in Asia: understanding biology of scab and powdery mildew for developing integrated approaches of disease management.” (2002-2009).

11. Publications:

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