Dr Harjeet Singh Dhaliwal
joined as Director, PAMETI on February 1, 2014. He was
merit scholarship holder during B.Sc. (Agriculture
Honors) and M.Sc. Agril. Finance degree programmes. He joined PAU in 1982 as
Assistant Professor, Farm Management Extension. He served as Senior Extension
Specialist (Farm Management) for five years. Also, he held the charge of Farm Advisory Service Scheme (FASS) of Farm Management of all districts of the Punjab State. Thereafter, he
joined as Additional Director Extension Education, PAU
in 2009 and held the additional charge of Director,
Extension Education from Dec. 2013 to Jan. 2014.
He completed seven national and six international
research projects. He was awarded Modern Kheti
Agro-society Award for contribution in spreading
agro-education among farmers of Punjab in 2001. He
represented India in international Seminar at Bangkok,
Thailand in 2002. He was awarded scholarship sponsored
by USAID in June, 2005 at Cornell University, USA and
his team was also awarded the certificate of
appreciation for their best project. He served as
visiting scientist in collaborative projects of PAU &
ACIAR, CSIRO at Griffith (2006) and Charless Sturt
University Wagga-wagga NSW(2010), Australia.
Dr Dhaliwal has number of books, research papers, book
chapters, research bulletins/manuals, full papers in
proceedings, research reports, extension survey reports,
record books and other articles to his credit. He has
been active in performing various extension related
activities like delivering radio & TV talks, invitation
lectures, organizing kisan melas, conferences, workshops, training courses, demonstrations,
field days etc. He has also been engaged in editing
magazines like Vikas Patra for Lab-to-Land families and
Kheti Sanjhan for PAU Kisan Club. He was member,
advisory board of PAU Extension publications viz. Changi Kheti and Progressive Farming. He was Nominee of Board of Control in the subject of Economics, GNDU, Amritsar (2007-08). He was also nominee of Board of Moderation in the subject of Economics, GNDU, Amritsar (2008-2011). Presently, he is chief editor of the PAMETI Reporter (Tri-annual publication). He is also a member of Extension Council of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU), Ludhiana.
He remained instrumental in formulating various farmers' interest groups and developing agro-processing & marketing linkages with different organizations. On-farm marketing through Road-Side Display (RSD) model is his idea of promoting direct marketing at farm level.
Dr H S Dhaliwal acted as Principal Investigator of project entitled, "Climate Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) to reduce Short Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCP)" for Punjab, India sanctioned by CCAC/UNEP from 2016 to 2019.
He has been a member of the CCAC/UNEP open agricultural burning Strategic Support Group (SSG)-Himalaya Region(2015-2019). This SSG served as an expert advisory group to various International projects in the region. He has attended five SSG meeting four in Bangkok from 19-23 Aug. 2015, 29-30 Aug.2017, 19-20 March 2018,12 Oct 2018 and one in US Embassy, New Delhi from 13-14 March 2019.
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