Soil Physical Environment and Plant Growth: Evaluation and Management

Prof Pradeep K. Sharma is an international soil & water management expert. He has multiple senior academic appointments at national agricultural universities as Sr. Scientist (Soils)/Professor (Soil Physics)/Chief Scientist (Water Management); Officer on Special Duty to Vice Chancellor; Dean (Postgraduate Studies); Vice Chancellor; and Assistant Director General (ICAR). Prof Sharma has served on several committees at the National and International level. He has been teaching course in Soil Physics, Soil Conservation, Water Management, Tillage Management, Rainfed Agriculture to undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Dr Sandeep Kumar received his PhD (Soil Physics) from University of Missouri-Columbia (USA) and was a Postdoctoral Researcher and Research Scientist in Prof Rattan Lal's lab at Ohio State University. He is currently an Associate Professor at South Dakota State University. He is involved in various integrated research projects focused on developing sustainable management systems (e.g., converting to no-till, adding cover crops, integrating crops and livestock, diversifying rotations, introducing perennial grasses on marginal lands) and their impacts on soil health, agricultural emissions, water quantity and quality, and crop performance. He has been mentoring students and researchers, and working with various extension specialists, social scientists, and economists to convey the importance of sustainable management systems to agricultural producers and policy makers.

普拉迪普·K·夏爾馬教授是一位國際土壤與水資源管理專家。他在國立農業大學擔任多個高級學術職位，包括土壤高級科學家/土壤物理學教授/水資源管理首席科學家；副校長特別助理；研究生院院長；副校長；以及印度農業研究委員會助理總幹事。夏爾馬教授曾在國內外多個委員會任職。他教授的課程包括土壤物理學、土壤保護、水資源管理、耕作管理及雨養農業，面向本科生和研究生。

桑迪普·庫馬博士在美國密蘇里大學哥倫比亞校區獲得土壤物理學博士學位，並曾在俄亥俄州立大學的拉特南·拉爾教授實驗室擔任博士後研究員和研究科學家。目前，他是南達科他州立大學的副教授。他參與多個綜合研究項目，專注於開發可持續管理系統（例如，轉向無耕作、增加覆蓋作物、整合作物與畜牧業、多樣化輪作、在邊際土地引入多年生草類）及其對土壤健康、農業排放、水量和水質以及作物表現的影響。他一直在指導學生和研究人員，並與各種推廣專家、社會科學家和經濟學家合作，向農業生產者和政策制定者傳達可持續管理系統的重要性。