Dr A.N. Maurya

Former Director, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, BHU, Varanasi

Dr Maurya has contributed significantly in carrying research related to production aspects of fruits and vegetable crops like plant nutrition, plant growth substances and physiology related to growth, flowering fruiting and quality of horticultural crops, methods and levels of potassium application on growth, yield and quality of banana under eastern U.P. condition and micronutrients study on mango (Magnifera indica L) cv Langra. He guided 75 M.Sc. and 26 Ph.D. students and authored about 100 publication including research papers, extension articles, book chapters. He has been Member Expert (Horticulture) in various national and state level technical committees such as ICAR, ASRB, UGC, Central and State Universities and organisations, Member on Technical Support Group for implementation of National Horticulture Mission in Orissa, Member of Board of Studies and Academic Council of Universities and Member of Sub Group of Horticulture, Planning Commission, Govt. of India for IX th Five Year Plan . He also acted as Member of RAC for several ICAR institutes like NRC for Cashew, Puttur, Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calicut, CPRI, Shimla, IIHR, Bangalore, CARI, Port Blair etc.