Dr Hari Ram wrote 127 research publications, including 33 (NAAS: 6-10), 7 (NAAS: 10-15), and two (NAAS: 20) having more than 4580 citations with an H-index of 32 and an i10-index of 65. He is involved in evaluation of 40 crop varieties and development of 33 agricultural production technologies. He has handled 14 projects as PI/CoPI. He received the ICAR-Mungbean and Wheat Team/Best Centre Award, three Fellow Awards, the Achievers award, Distinguished Scientist award, the Dr. S. Nagarajan Memorial Award (ICAR) and Fellow award of the Indian Society of Agronomy. He taught 40 courses, guided nine M.Sc/Ph.D students. He gave 31 radio/TV/Facebook live talks. He has organized 107 farmer, 11 rural youth, 19 extension functionaries’ trainings, 33 field days and 310 adaptive trials, and delivered lectures at 15 camps and 31 field days/CAFT/Diploma sponsored by other departments. He has attended 34 national/international conferences in addition to 20 crop workshops. He has participated in 39 Agricultural-Officers workshops and 64 Kisan Melas. He has carried out 854 demonstrations on pulses, oilseeds, wheat, and barley varieties, including bed planting of pulses, happy seeder, no tillage, potassium nitrate/salicylic acid spray for managing heat stress, and agronomic biofortification in wheat.   Professional Accomplishments Research Publications:

1. Singh S, Kaur J, Ram H*, Singh J and Kaur S. 2023. Agronomic bio-fortification of wheat(Triticum aestivum L.) to alleviate zinc deficiency in human being. Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11157-023-09653-4 (NAAS: 14.60)

2.Tanin MJ, Sharma A, Ram H, Singh S, Srivastava P, Mavi GS, Saini DK, Gudi S, Kumar P, Goyal P and Sohu VS (2023) Application of potassium nitrate and salicylic acid improves grain yield and related traits by delaying leaf senescence in Gpc-B1 carrying advanced wheat genotypes. Front. Plant Sci. 14:1107705. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1107705 (NAAS: 10.10)

3. Ram H, Naeem A, Rashid A, Kaur C, Ashraf MY, Malik SS, Aslam M, Mavi GS, Tutus Y, Yazici MA, Govindan V and Cakmak I (2024) Agronomic biofortification of genetically biofortified wheat genotypes with zinc, selenium, iodine, and iron under field conditions. Front. Plant Sci. 15:1455901. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1455901 (NAAS: 10.10)
4. Jatana, B.S.; Grover, S.; Ram, H.; Baath, G.S. Seed Priming: Molecular and Physiological Mechanisms Underlying Biotic and Abiotic Stress Tolerance. Agronomy 2024, 14, 2901. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/agronomy14122901 (NAAS: 9.30)
5. Ram H, Kaur H and Sikka R 2022. Need-based nitrogen management of wheat through use of green seeker and leaf color chart for enhancing grain yield and quality. Journal of Plant Nutrition45: 2655-71(NAAS: 7.60)
6. Ram H, Singh B, Kaur M, Gupta N, Kaur J and Singh A 2022. Combined use of foliar zinc fertilization, thiamethoxam and propiconazole does not reduce their effectiveness for enriching zinc in wheat grains and controlling insects and disease. Crop and Pasture Science73(5), 427-436 (https://doi.org/10.1071/CP21483  NAAS: 7.80)

Awards/Distinction

Sr No.	Name of the prize	Subject	Institution by which awarded	Year of award	Nature of award
1.	Mungbean Team Award	Research	Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur	2007	Recognition
2.	Achievers’ Award	Research	Society for Development of Human & Nature, Solan, HP	2011	Recognition
3.	Wheat Team Award	Research	ICAR Directorate of Wheat Research, Karnal, Haryana	2012	Recognition
4.	Distinguished Scientist Award	Research	Society for Scientific Development in Agriculture & Technology, Meerut UP	2014	Recognition
5.	Fellow Award	Research	Society for Scientific Development in Agriculture &Technology,UP	2015	Recognition
6.	Fellow Award	Research	Society for Advancement of Wheat and Barley Research, Karnal	2018	Recognition
7.	Zonal Councillor	Research	Society for Advancement of Wheat and Barley Research, Karnal	2015-2018	–
8.	Dr S. Nagarajan Memorial Award	Research	Society for Advancement of Wheat and Barley Research Kanal	2022	Recognition
9.	Best AICRP award	Research	ICAR-Indian Institute of  Wheat and Barley Research, Karnal, Haryana	2022	Recognition
10.	Fellow Award	Research	Indian Society of Agronomy, IARI, New Delhi	2023	Recognition