Dr. Yashbir Singh Shivay
ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, India
Dr. Yashbir Singh Shivay served as an ARS Scientist (1991–2000), Senior Scientist (2000–2008), Principal (2008–till date) & also Professor (17 November 2015 to 17 November 2018) at ICAR–Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India. Dr. Shivay has attended 12 specialized training programs in India and one each on crop nutrition and ecological agriculture in China and Norway, respectively. Dr. YS Shivay specializes in research areas such as Natural Resource Management especially Soil fertility, Crop Nutrition, Rice-wheat agronomy, and Ecological/Organic Agriculture.
Dr. Shivay has guided 22 PG Students, 4 for M.Sc. (IARI), 4 for M.Sc. (ANASTU, Afghanistan) & 14 for Ph.D., and presently 3 Ph.D. Scholars are working under his guidance. Dr. YS Shivay guided 3 Ph.D. students who received IARI merit medals, three received the Indian Society of Agronomy Best Thesis award in 2010, 2014 & 2015 and another one received the FAI Golden Jubilee Best Thesis award in 2014. Dr. Amarpreet Singh received the first Mosaic Company Foundation Award for outstanding research at the doctoral level in the area of plant Nutrition 2014–15 guided by Dr. Shivay. Dr. Y.S. Shivay has also guided 4 M.Sc. Students from Afghanistan National Agricultural Sciences & Technology University (ANASTU), Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Dr. YS Shivay has a quite good number of publications to his credit: (i) Research papers 319 (IF=176); (ii) Review papers 82; (iii) Book chapters 30; (iv) Books 7; (v) Manuals 4; (vi) Edited books/publications 10; (vii) Technical reports 2; (viii) Edited special issues of IJA 2, and (ix) Research papers presented in seminars/symposia/conferences (a) International (75) (b) National (50).
Dr. Shivay received the Bharat Ratna Dr. C. Subramaniam Award for Outstanding Teachers 2018 of ICAR; ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute Best Teacher Award 2009; NAAS Associate Fellow (2007); National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) Fellowship (2017); Indian Society of Agronomy, Fellowship (2009); Indian Society of Plant Physiology, Fellowship (2020); Crop & Weed Science Society, Fellowship (2020-21), and also International Society of Environmental Botanists, Fellowship (2021); SAP Gold Medal–2015; IZA-FAI Award 2016; The Falvey Award 2016; FAI Golden Jubilee Award of Excellence 2012; FAI Shriram Puraskar 2012, 2015 & 2017; Outstanding achievement in agriculture award 2019 from the Society for Recent Development in Agriculture; Distinguish Scientist Award 2022 from Jan Jagriti Seva Samiti Society, Kanpur; National Talent Scholarship of UP Board (1983–86); Chinese Government Scholarship (1998–99) and Norwegian Government Scholarship (2003–04); Distinguished Scientist Award 2009 from Society for Recent Development in Agriculture; ICAR-IARI First Prize for best Hindi articles 2010, 2012 & 2020.
Dr. Shivay also did post-doctoral research (1998–99) at Zhejiang Agricultural University, Hangzhou (China), and was a Visiting Scientist (2003–04) at the Agricultural University of Norway, a Visiting Specialist (2008) at The Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas, Norway. He also attended the International Workshop on Micronutrients at NARC, Kathmandu, Nepal (2004), the Zinc Crops 2007 International Conference held in Istanbul, Turkey from 24–28 May 2007, and the International Conference on Agriculture, Food and Animal Sciences held at Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, Pakistan during 12–14 May 2008. Also attended the first Conservation Agriculture Symposium from November 23–24, 2010 Payam Noor University of Arak, Iran; Sri Lanka Council of Agricultural Research Policy International Agricultural Research Symposium during 11–12 August 2014 at Sri Lanka Foundation, Colombo, Sri Lanka; 4th International Zinc Symposium: Improving Crop Production and Human Health being organized at Sao Paulo, Brazil from October 15–17, 2015 and also 5th International Zinc Symposium: Improving Crop Production and Human Health being organized at KU Leuven, Belgium from September 05–07, 2018. Recently, attended the 4th International Conference on Organic Rice Farming and Production Systems at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan from September 4–7 2023.