Designation
Principal Scientist (Agronomy)
Educational qualification
M.Sc & Ph.D (Agronomy)
Other Roles
Head, Crop Production
Division
Crop Production
Contact Address
Indian Institute of Oilseeds Research
Rajendranagar, Hyderabad 500 030
Tel No
040-24598156
E-mail
g.suresh@icar.org.in
sureshdor@gmail.com
Projects completed
- DAC – NMOOP Research Project : Area Expansion and Productivity Enhancement of Castor through Quality Seed Production and Adoption of BMPs (Co-PI)
- ICAR Seed Project: Seed Production of Agricultural crops (Co-PI)
- NATP: Pasture improvement and legume introduction: Soil -plant-animal relationship.
- DST-TIFAC: Utilization of fly-ash as ameliorant for improving forage productivity in Bundelkhand soils
- ICAR- Cess Fund: Bio-physical spread sheet modelling of silvopastoral systems
- Indo-UK Collaborative Project: Forages on bunds: Meeting the needs of land users through collaborative approaches
On-going Projects
Agronomic interventions for maximizing resource use efficiency in castor based cropping system
- Development of Conservation Agricultural Practices in castor based cropping systems in Alfisols
Trainings undertaken (National & International)
Training Programmes attended
- Attended training program on MDP on Leadership Development (a pre-RMP programme) NAARM, Hyderabad, Dec, 18-29, 2018
- Attended short course on "Cropping system Models" Jointly organized by University of Florida and ICRISAT, at ICRISAT, Patancheru, December 5-9, 2011
Course Coordinator
- Training on "Groundnut and Sesame production methodologies and techniques" to delegation from Ministry of Agriculture & Irrigation, Myanmar
- National level Training Course on "Low Cost Production Technology for Oilseeds"
- Model Training Course on "Recent advances in Production Technology of Oilseed Crops"
- Hybrid Seed Production Technology in sunflower, castor and safflower
- Training Course on "Hybrid Seed Production in sunflower and castor
- Model Training Course on "Low Cost Production Technology in Oilseeds" Sponsored by Directorate of Extension , Ministry of Extension, Govt of India
- Model Training Course on "Seed Production in Oilseeds" Sponsored by Directorate of Extension , Ministry of Extension, Govt of India
Course Director
- Training Course on "Hybrid Seed Production in Sunflower and Castor"
Recent Publications (best papers in past 5 years )
- Suresh G, Sudhakara Babu SN and Aziz Qureshi. 2014. Performance of soybean-sunflower cropping system under varied nutrient management practices in Vertisols. Soybean Research (2):136-141.
- Suresh G, S.N.Sudhakara Babuand A.Aziz Qureshi.2015. Productivity and nutrient use of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) in sequential cropping system in Vertisols. Journal of Oilseeds Research. 32 (2): 139-141.
- Suresh G,Deboriya KL, Narayanan G, Jain NK, Duraimurugan P, Patel CJ, Bhagwat Rathore, Padmavathi P, Satish Kumar GD and Murthy IYLN 2015. Handbook on Technologies for Oilseeds production in Gujarat. DOR, Hyderabad and DAC New Delhi. pp125.
- Suresh G, Aziz Qureshi and V.Ramulu. 2016. Enhancing the productivity of rabi castor (RicinusCommunis L.) through drip-fertigation. In: Extended Summaries: 4th International Agronomy Congress on “Agronomy for Sustainable Management of Natural Resources, Environment, Energy and Livelihood Security to Achieve Zero Hunger Challenge”, from 22-26 November 2016 at New Delhi.
- Suresh G, K.Ravisankar and K.S.Varaprasad.2017. Successful Oilseeds and Pulses based farming systems: IIOR’s field level experience. Book Chapter In: Integrated Farming Systems for Sustainable Agriculture and Enhancement of Rural Livelihoods (Eds: Muralidharan K, Prasad MVR and Siddiq EA) RICAREA and ICAR-NAARM, Hyderabad.pp136-143.
- L.G.K. Naidu, S. Dharumarajan, M.Lalitha, R.Vasundhara, V.Ramamurthy, Obi Reddy, R.S.Singh, B.Tailor, Rameshwar Singh, U. Baruah, M. Padmaiah, G.Suresh, and K.S. Varaprasad. 2015. Identification and delineation of potential castor growing areas in different Agro-eco sub regions of India. Journal of Oilseeds Research. 32(1): 39-48.
- Hari Singh Meena, K.B. Suneetha Devi and G. Suresh. 2016. Yield and profitability of clusterbean (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba) as influenced by varieties and crop geometry in semi-arid climate of Andhra Pradesh. Indian Journal of Agronomy 61 (3): 401- 403.
- Abhinav Kumar ,Vandana Bharti,Vinod Kumar ,P.D. Meena and G. Suresh. 2017. Hyperspectral Imaging Applications in Rapeseed and Mustard Farming. Journal of Oilseeds Research. 34(1): 1-8.
- Madhuri P, C. Lavanya, G Suresh, P Duraimurugan, M Santhalakshmi Prasad and A Vishnuvardhan Reddy.2018. Development of a mobile app for the effective dissemination of information on castor. Journal of Oilseeds Research. 35(3): 219-225
- Prabakaran A J, C Lavanya, T. Manjunatha, G Balakishan, P Duraimurugan, M Santhalakshmi Prasad, S Senthilvel, G Suresh, P Lakshmamma, R D Prasad, K T Ramya, Praduman Yadav, J Jawahar Lal, C Sarada, D K Patel, C J Patel, Mukesh Patel, P Sunil Kumar, K S Varaprasad and A Vishnuvardhan Reddy . 2018. ICH-66, a new high yielding and biotic stress –resistant castor hybrid suitable for rainfed conditions of Peninsular India. Journal of Oilseeds Research. 35(4): 252-259
Area of expertise
Agroforestry; Best Management Practices in Oilseed crops; Drip-fertigation
Any other relevant information
- CO-PI (Agronomy) of AICRP (Castor)
- Life Member of four professional Societies