Dr. Raj Kumar Pal is currently serving as Assistant Professor in the Department of Climate Change & Agricultural Meteorology at Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana since October 06, 2021, actively engaged in UG and PG teaching. He completed his M.Sc. (2007) from ANDUAT, Ayodhya with the VC’s Gold Medal and Ph.D. (2010) from GBPUAT, Pantnagar with ICAR-SRF and the Dr. P.D. Mistry Award for best Ph.D. thesis. Previously, he worked as Assistant Agrometeorologist at RRS, Bathinda under the GKMS scheme and also served as Sports Incharge since November 15, 2013. Dr. Pal has published over 85 research papers, along with one monograph, one national seminar proceedings book, 13 book chapters, 8 popular articles, 1 bulletin, and 2 folders. He has participated in 11 international (within India) and 18 national seminars, symposiums, and workshops. He has guided 7 M.Sc. and 1 Ph.D. student as major advisor. Additionally, he has organized 6 Farmers’ Awareness Programmes (FAPs), one training session, delivered 9 invited lectures, and 4 radio talks.

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Research Publications:

• Pal RK (2020) Impact of varying nitrogen levels on seed cotton yield using CROPGRO-cotton model for South-Western region of Punjab. Journal of Agrometeorology 22(spl. issue): 222-228. (NAAS Rating: 6.64)
• Malik A, Tikhamarine Y, Al-Ansari N, Shahid S, Sekhon HS, Pal RK, Rai P, Pandey K. Singh P. Elbeltagi A and Sammen SS (2021) Daily Pan-Evaporation Estimation in Different Agro-Climatic Zones Using Novel Hybrid Support Vector Regression Optimized by Salp Swarm Algorithm in Conjunction with Gamma Test. Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics 15(1): 1075-1094. (Impact Factor: 8.391) 
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• Singh R, Pal RK, Gill KK, Mishra SK and Kaur Anureet (2022) Validation of medium range weather forecasts and its economic impact on cotton-wheat cropping system in South-Western Punjab. MAUSAM 73(2): 405-412. (NAAS Rating: 6.91)

• Bora Sony, Kingra PK and Pal RK (2025) Hydro-thermal regimes and their impact on relative weather disparities and grain yield of wheat in central Punjab. MAUSAM 76(2): 519-528.  (NAAS Rating: 6.70)

• Singh Harkanwal Jot, Madane DA, Pal RK and Reenu Sharma (2025) Geospatial assessment of paddy crop water requirement using remote sensing and GIS in semiarid Ludhiana area of Indian Punjab. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 156:210. (Impact Factor: 2.80)

Awards and Recognitions:

• Conferred Dr S. Venkatraman Young Scientist Award-2023 by Association of Agrometeorologist, Anand, Gujarat during International Conference on AGMET-2024 held at BHU, Varanasi during 08-10 Feb., 2024. 

Received Best Poster Presentation Award during National Seminar AGMET-2020 at Kerala Agricultural University, Vellanikkara, Thrissur