Dr. Santosh Kumar Yadav

Research Projects

1. Restoration and Recycling of Himalayan Weeds Through Organic Mode of Crop Production: Upliftment of SC/ST Communities of Pithoragarh District. Funded by SEED Division, Ministry of Science & Technology, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India.
2. Evaluation of Effectiveness of Zero Budget Natural Farming Inputs and Prevailing Organic Farming Practices in RiceWheat Cropping Systems in Tarai Region of Uttarakhand. Funded by Uttarakhand Council for Biotechnology, Biotech, Haldi, U.S. Nagar.
3. All India Coordinated Rice Research Improvement Project
4. All India Network Programme on Organic Farming
5. ELP on Natural Farming. Funded by ICAR
6. Bio- Efficacy Project : More than 20

Selected Research Publications

1. “Study of Nano Urea Application under Graded N rates on Growth, Productivity and Nitrogen Use Efficiency of Transplanted Rice (Oryza sativa L.).” S. K. Yadav, D. K. Singh,Yuvraj Singh and Pratima Arya. Pantnagar Journal of Research: 2024. (NAAS-4.86)
2. “Mepiquat Chloride: An effective plant growth regulator to improve growth and productivity of rice in North-Western Himalayan region of India.” S. K. Yadav, D. K. Singh, Kirti Sharma, Pratima Arya, Supriya Tripathi and Yogesh Sharma. Pantnagar Journal of Research Vol. 21(2): May-August, 2023. (NAAS 4.86)
3. “Growth and Yield of Rice (Oryza sativa L.) under different establishment methods and weed management practice in Uttarakhand.” D. K. Singh, Santosh K. Yadav, Maya Krishna, Sonam Rawat, Supriya Tripathi, Megha Pun, P.K Singh & Yogesh Sharma (2023) Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS 6.40)
4. D. K. Singh, Santosh K. Yadav, Maya Krishna, Sonam Rawat, Supriya Tripathi, Megha Pun, P.K Singh & Yogesh Sharma (2023) “Organic farming: transformation science into practice towards the healthy ecosystem” Indian Journal of Agronomy 68 (XXII Biennial National Symposium Special issue): S128- S135(2023) (NAAS 6.40)
5. D. K. Singh, Santosh K. Yadav, Supriya Tripathi, Kirti Sharma & Yogesh Sharma “Organic farming, Nutritional security and environmental Sustainability” https://dol.org/10.58297/RAOR3817
6. Bora, Reshma, Chilwal, Aradhana, Yadav, Santosh Kumar and Negi, Ankita. “Influence of balance fertilizer application in a long term on yield and yield attributing characters of rice (Oriza sativa L.)” Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemsirty, 2018; 7(3): 1691-1694.
7. Bora, Reshma, pandey, P.C, Singh, D.K, Yadav, Santosh Kumar and Chilwal, Aradhana. “ Assesment of soil fertility status under long term balance fertilizer application on rice (Oriza sativa L.)”. International Journal of Chemical Studies,2018; 6 (5) : 1696-1699.
8. Chongtham Lalito, Bhandari Sunita, Sharma, Vivek and Yadav S.K. “ Effect og different organic and inorganic nitrogenous fertizers on growth, yield and soil properties of pea (Pisum sativum L.)” Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemsirty,2018; 7(4): 2114-2118.
9. Bora, Reshma, Yadav, Santosh Kumar Chilwal, Aradhana, Chauhan, Varsha and Bhandrai, Sunita. “Effect of long term balance fertilizer application on growth parameters of rice (Oryza sativa L.)”The Pharma Innovation Journal 2018; 7 (10);596-598.Yadav. S.K, Singh. V. P and Upadhyay, R.G. “Effect of rice establishment methods and nitrogen Bhatt, Maneesh, Singh, A.P and Yadav, S.K. “Long term effect of fertilizer application and their substitution practices on soil available, N,P and K under the surface layer of soil.” International Journal of Tropical Agriculture.” Vol. 34, No. 7,2016. management options on soil physical properties in rice-wheat system”. International Journal of Tropical Agriculture.” Vol. 34, No. 5,2016.
10. Yadav. S.K, Singh. V. P and Upadhyay, R.G. “Evaluation of rice establishment methods and nitrogen management criteria on wheat in relation to growth and productivity. International Journal of Tropical Agriculture.” Vol. 34, No. 7, 2016.
11. Singh, Jitendra, Upadhyay, R.G and Yadav, S.K. “Integrated livestock and poultry farming system for augmenting socio economic status of Hill Farmers in Uttarakhand.”. International Journal of Tropical Agriculture.” Vol. 34, No. 7,2016.

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Students Guided

• PG- 05
• Ph.D- 01

Awards/Recognitions

• Governor Award Bharat Scouts and Guides Government of Uttarakhand.
• State NSS Award Government of Uttarakhand.
• Excellence in Teaching Award- 2018
• Young Scientist Award- 2016, 2017
• Faculty Excellence Award- 2024, 2025
• Best Centre Award- 2024, 2025.
• Established and Equiped The Natural Farming Lab.