Dr. Brij Bala, Principal Scientist/ Professor 

Department of Agricultural Economics, COA, CSK HPKV, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh - 176062, India  

Phone: +91-98161-90369 (Cell);

 E-mail: balab72@gmail.com

Field of Specialization and Research interest: Production Economics and Farm Management

Education Qualification: Ph.D (Agricultural Economics)

Employment Record along with Professional Experience (in years): 31 years of experience April 2022 till present: Principal Scientist/Professor (Ag.Econ.), Department of Agricultural Economics, COA, CSKHPKV, Palampur.

Dec.2013-April 2022: Principal Scientist/Professor (Ag.Econ.), CSKHPKV, HAREC, Bajaura.

Dec. 2007-Dec. 2013:          Associate Professor, (Ag. Econ.), CSKHPKV, HAREC, Bajaura.

Dec.2002-Dec. 2007:           Scientist, Sr. Scale (Ag. Econ.), CSKHPKV, KVK & HAREC, Bajaura.

Sept.1998-Dec. 2002:Assistant Scientist, (Ag. Econ.), at RRS, Dhaulakuan and KVK, Bajaura.

June 1992-Sept. 1998: Pool officer, CSIR and Research Associate at CSKHPKV, Palampur.

Research Projects handled

As PI(Give Number only): 10

As Co-PI(Give Number only):15

Research Publications

Total publications published in Journals (Give Number only):75 (25)

Enlist best 5 publications in last 5 years (with NAAS rating/impact factor)

1.            Shuying Yu, Jian Peng, Pei Xia, Qi Wang, RobertC GrabowskiAdani Azhoni, Brij Bala, Vijay Shankar, Jeroen Meersmans (2023) Network analysis of water-related ecosystem services in search of solutions for sustainable catchment management: A case study in Sutlej-Beas River systems, India, Ecosystem Services, volume 63, October 2023, 101557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101557. (NAAS rating 12.91).

2.     Vercruysse, K., Grabowski, R. C., Holman, I., Azhoni, A., Bala, B., Meersmans, J., Peng, J., Shankar, V., Mukate, S., Poddar, A., Wang, X., & Zhang, Z. (2022). Placed-based interpretation of the sustainable development goals for the land-river interface. Sustainability Science. Published online by Springer (Impact factor 6.367, NAAS rating 12.367).

        https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01176-1

3.    Grabowski, R. C., Vercruysse, K., Holman, I., Azhoni, A., Bala, B., Shankar, V., Beale J., Mukate, S., Poddar, A.,  Peng, J. and Meersman, J. (2022)  The land–river interface: a conceptual framework of environmental process interactions to support sustainable development. Sustainability Science, Published online.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01150-x (Impact factor 6.367, NAAS rating 12.367).

4.    Bala B. and Rana Vishal (2022) Polyhouse Technology for High-Value Crops - Variability in Practices and Outcomes, Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 77(3):455-467. (NAAS rating 5.30).

5.       Bala B.and D. Sharma (2021) Economics of Kharif and Rabi pea cultivation in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh. Indian Journal of Ecology, 48(5): 1419-1424. (NAAS rating 5.79).

Books published/Book Chapters/ Manual (Teaching/trainings)

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Books:1

Conference/Seminar/Symposium papers

Give Number only: 13

Extension activity including Popular articles/pamphlets/leaflets

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Popular articles:76

Pamphlets: 7

Extension lectures: 600

Students Guided

PG (Give Number only):14

Ph.D (Give Number only): 1

Awards/Fellowships

Enlist best 3 awards

1.      HPKV Gold medal with honours certificate and college merit scholarship for Doctoral Programme  

2.      ICAR Junior Research Fellowship(JRF) during MSc.

3.      ICAR merit scholarship during BSc (Ag.) programme.

International exposure/Visits Abroad

Visited UK for attending a progress review meeting of DBT funded project entitled “Social-Economic-Environmental Trade-offs in Managing the Land-River-Interface” on June 26-29, 2022 at Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK.

Miscellaneous achievements/activities

v   Awarded ‘Distinguished Woman in Agricultural Sciences in the field of Agricultural Economics, 2018’ by “Venus International Foundation, Chennai”.

v   Chaired a technical session in International Seminar on ‘Recent trends and Experimental Approaches in Science, Technology, Nature and Management’, organised by Society for Science and Nature at Jodhpur w. e. f. 23-24 December, 2018.

v   Co-chaired a poster evaluation team in National conference on ‘Alternate farming systems to enhance farmers’ income’ at YSP, UHF, Nauni, Solan on Sept.19-21, 2017.

v   Expert to undertake moderation of question paper for AICE-JRF/SRF (PGS)-2018 at Krishi Anusandhan Bhavan-II, Pusa, New Delhi.

v   Referee for the evaluation/editing of research papers for three journals viz., Indian Journal of Agricultural Research of ARCC, Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development and International Journal of Agricultural Marketing since 2013.

v   Expert for   a 5-days’ group meeting on “Updating of Scientific and technical terminology on Agriculture in Hindi”. organized by the Commission of scientific and technical terminology, Ministry of HRD, New Delhi at IARI RRS, Katrainw.e.f. July 14-18, 2014.