Dr. Jitender Mohan Singh joined as Head, Department of Economics and Sociology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana on April 13, 2023. He is also working as Director, Agro-Economic Research Centre, Department of Economics & Sociology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana since January 2020. His research area is Farm Management and Agricultural Marketing. He started his career as District Extension Specialist (Farm Management) and later worked as Deputy Director (Tr.), Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Fathegarh Sahib. His major research work emphasized on investigating the economic aspects of different oilseed crops, supply chain of horticultural commodities, labour migration, resource use planning for sustainable agriculture and subsidiary occupations of farming. As Director, AERC he has written twenty-two research reports and submitted to the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, Govt. of India and other funding agencies on various topical issues related to agriculture. Besides this, he acted as principal investigator (PI) in one and co-principal investigator (Co-PI) in four projects funded by reputed funding agencies. He has published about eighty research papers in various journals of repute and thirty-five extension articles in various magazines/newspapers. He made presentations in about forty ‘Research and Extension Specialist Workshops’ organised by the Punjab Agricultural University. He also delivered numerous Radio/TV talks for benefit of the farming community. Presently, he is guiding one Ph.D. and one M.Sc. students, while sixteen postgraduate (M.Sc./Ph.D.) students have completed their degree under his supervision. Dr. Singh presented papers in various conferences held in the country. He is associated with many professional societies and held various offices in these societies.

Professional Accomplishments

Research Projects completed

• Estimation of District-wise Cost of Cultivation of Important Crops in Punjab funded by the Government of Punjab as Co-PI.  

1. ICAR Social Science Network Project on Resource Use Planning for Sustainable Agriculture funded by ICAR-NIAP as PI. 

Research Publications:

• Singh J M, Sachdeva J, Chand P, Singh S and Kaur B (2023). Resource conservation technologies for sustainable development of agriculture: A case study in Indian Punjab. Agricultural Economics Research Review 36: 1-11. (NAAS Rating:5.84)

• Chand P, Singh J M, Sachdeva J, Singh J, Agarwal P, Jain R, Rao S and Kaur B (2022).  Irrigation water policies for sustainable groundwater management in irrigated northwestern plains of India. Current Science, 123: 1225-1231. (NAAS Rating:7.10)

• Singh J M, Sachdeva J, Bhangu P K S, Singh J, Kaur B and Kumar H (2022). Groundwater saving in Punjab: role of short duration paddy varieties in agricultural sustainability. Indian Journal of Ecology 49: 358-362. (NAAS Rating: 5.79)

1. Singh J M, Kaur A, Chopra S, Kumar R, Sidhu M S and Kataria P (2022) Dynamics of Production Profile of Pulses in India. Legume Research 45: 565-572. (NAAS rating – 6.59)
2. Singh J M, Sidhu M S, Kaur A, Chopra S and Kataria P (2021) Changing profile of Punjab agriculture- Need for diversification. Economic & Political Weekly 56: 22-26.

Awards and Recognitions:

1. Received Prof. R.S. Deshpande Award for Research Paper in Agricultural Economics for 2023-24 for the research paper “Irrigation water policies for sustainable groundwater management in irrigated north-western plains of India” published in Current Science, Vol. 123, No. 10, 25th November 2022.
2. President, Indian Society for Agricultural Development and Policy, Ludhiana.
3. ‘Merit Certificate’ holder in B.Sc. Agriculture (Hons)
4. University Merit Scholarship holder in B.Sc. Agriculture (Hons), M.Sc. Agril. Economics