Dr D.P. Singh

Former ADG (Vegetable Crops), ICAR, New Delhi

Dr. Singh is an eminent scientist with over 36 year experience in vegetable breeding and research management. Dr Singh started his professional career as vegetable breeder and has developed 30 improved hybrids and varieties of different vegetable crops viz., Onion, Capsicum, Chillies, Egg Plant, Pointed Gourd, Cucumber and Ridge Gourd. Dr Singh worked as, Country Director of SAVERNET, a network on vegetable of AVRDC Taiwan for 6 countries, Team Leader/Country Director of USAID- AVRDC-Bangladesh Project. He also worked as National Coordinator of NATP and then NAIP at ICAR headquarter for over 6 years. He dealt with Production System Research and Institution Village Linkage Programs of 5 Agro-eco Systems. He published 4 books/ manuals and 127 research articles. He is a Fellow of the Indian Society of Vegetable Science.