AGRICULTURE

PAU scientist invited to China
From Our Correspondent

LUDHIANA, Feb 25 — Dr Milkha S. Aulakh, a senior soil scientist at Punjab Agricultural University, has been invited to participate in an international conference on ‘Green house gases emission from rice fields’ scheduled to be held at Nanjing, China.

Giving this information, Dr Aulakh said that the conference would be organised by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan, which is a premier institute for coordinating worldwide research and development of strategies on global environment. Distinguished scientists from several countries, including USA, Japan, Germany, China, the Philippines, Thailand, Korea, Indonesia, India, have been invited to the conference, he said.

The rare invitation has come to Dr Aulakh for his research achievements in emission of green house gases from soils. The contribution of Dr Aulakh in the development of economically viable environment-friendly plant nutrient management technologies for sustainable crop productivity have been globally acclaimed. He is the pioneer researcher to illustrate the potential dangers from accelerated emission of greenhouse gases from soils causing global warming and nitrate contamination of groundwater. His research has won him international recognition.

In 1983, Dr Aulakh did Ph.D. at University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada and later on he was appointed as Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, USA, Project Scientist at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, and visiting scientist at Frounhofer Institute for Atmospheric Environmental Research and University of Frieburg in Germany. He has travelled to Pakistan, China, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, the USA, Canada and Mexico.