Born on 30th January 1991 at Bathinda, Manpreet Singh completed B.Sc. Agriculture in 2013, M.Sc. Agronomy in 2015 and Ph.D. Agronomy in 2019 from Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India. Dr. Singh after completing Ph.D. joined Department of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare as Agriculture Development Officer at Bathinda. Later joined as Agronomist October, 2019 in the Department of Agronomy at Punjab Agricultural University and serving as Agronomist from till date. His field of specialization is Weed Science. Dr. Singh involved in 3-development, 10-testing of technologies of weed management in different crops. He completed 1-competitive and 6-adhoc projects as Co-PI under weed management. He is also associated in AICRP-WM research trials and annual report compilation. He published 6-research paper & book chapter and research work presented in 4 conferences. Under research/extension projects conducted 10-state wide weed survey, 51-FLDs, 38-OFTs; involved in organizing 8-field days, 2-exibutions; delivered 44-lectures, 7-radio talks, published 38-extension article, attended 3-ICAR sponsored trainings. Taught 20 Agronomy courses and guiding one M.Sc. student. He is NCC Incharge, College of Agriculture. He is life member of two professional societies – Indian Society of Weed Science and Indian Society of Agronomy.  

Professional Accomplishments

Research Projects completed

1. Promotion of Direct Seeded Rice-Tar Wattar Technology in 12 districts of Punjab funded by NABARD in 2023 as Co-PI  

Research Publications:

• Singh M, Bhullar M S and Gill G (2018) Integrated weed management in dry-seeded rice using stale seedbeds and post sowing herbicides. Field Crops Research 224: 182-191.
• Liu C, Bhullar M S, Kaur T, Kumar J, Reddy S R S, Singh M and Kaundun S S (2021) Modelling the effect and variability of integrated weed management of Phalaris minor in Rice-Wheat cropping systems in Northern India. Agronomy 11: 2331-46
• Singh G, Singh S, Singh M and Dhatt K K (2022) Effect of post-emergence herbicides on economic weed management and turfgrass quality characteristics of Bermuda grass Selection No. 1 Indian J Weed Sci 55(1): 86-94                 
• Kaur T, Kaur S, Singh G, Singh M, Singh J, Kaur P and Bhullar M S (2025) Weed control in direct seeded rice with pre-emergence herbicide PEPE 25% SE (ready mix of penoxsulam 1% + pendimethalin 24%). Indian J Weed Sci 57(2):155-59
• Kaur S, Pal R, Kaur T, Singh G, Singh M and Bhullar MS (2025) Post-emergence weed control in sugarcane with ready mix of 2,4- D sodium salt 48% plus metribuzin 32% plus chlorimuron 0.8% WDG. Sugar Tech https://doi.org/10.1007/s12355-025-01621-2

Book chapters (1)

Bhullar M S, Kaur T, Singh M, Gill J S and Kaur P (2022) Weed management in direct seeded rice- A success story. In: Technological Glimpses on Weeds and their Management, J.S. Mishra, Sushil Kumar and A.N. Rao (Eds.) 3rd Intl. Weeds Conf, 20-23 Dec, Anand, Gujrat. pp 9-12

Awards and Recognitions:

Best poster award: Verma P K, Bhullar M S, Singh M and Kaur T (2024) Effect of Phalaris minor Retz emergence timing and density on its economic threshold level in wheat. In Proceedings of ISWS Biennial Conference on “Climate-smart Weed Management for Global Food Security” November 28-30, 2024 organized by Indian Society of Weed Science at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi pp 246.