Agri varsity’s Sukhpreet Singh awarded INSPIRE fellowship

Ludhiana, July 18

Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) student Sukhpreet Singh has brought recognition to the university by securing the INSPIRE fellowship. Singh is currently pursuing his doctoral research in agronomy. The Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, has awarded him the fellowship for a period of five years.

Under the supervision of Dr Makhan Singh Bhullar, Director of Extension Education at the PAU, Sukhpreet Singh is conducting research on new cultivars and planting methods in potato and their relationship with weed dynamics in the potato-summer mung cropping system. His work aims to address key challenges in agronomy and enhance crop productivity through innovative practices.

Dr Bhullar said planting potatoes in moist beds and delaying the first post-sowing irrigation reduced early weed flushes. Singh’s research includes evaluating a new broad-spectrum herbicide, a premix of flufenacet and metribuzin, for prolonged weed control under variable first post-sowing irrigation schedules.