Dr. Ram Kishor Fagodiya

Personal Information

Name: Ram Kishor Fagodiya, Ph.D.
Designation: Senior Scientist (Environmental Sciences)
Division of Soil and Crop Management, ICAR-Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal – 132 001 (Haryana), India
Contact No.: +91 9311127020
E-mails: ram.iari4874@gmail.com; Ram.Fagodiya@icar.org.in

Academic/Education detail

Current research area

Conservation agriculture, Climate smart agriculture, Carbon-water-energy-nutrient budgeting, Carbon sequestration, GHG inventory, in various agroecosystems.

Aawards, fellowships, recognition

• NESA Eminent Scientist Award
• FSRDA Young Scientist Award
• SSCE Young Scientist Award
• Best oral/presentation awards (7)
• DST Inspire 2012, UGC JRF 2012, CSRI JRF 2011, ICAR JRF 2009, ICAR NTS 2005
• Associated Editor JSSWQ, Editorial board member JEES

Publications

 Best 10 research papers

1. Fagodiya, R.K.*, Pathak, H., Bhatia, A., Jain, N., Kumar, A., and Malyan, S.K., 2020. Global warming impacts of nitrogen use in agriculture: an assessment for India since 1960. Carbon Manag., 11(3): 291–301.
2. Fagodiya, R.K.*, Singh, A., Singh, R., Rani, S., Kumar, S., Rai, A.K., Sheoran, P., Chandra, P., Yadav, R.K., Sharma, P.C., and Biswas, A.K., 2023. The food-energy-water-carbon nexus of the rice-wheat production system in the western Indo-Gangetic Plain of India: an impact of irrigation system, conservational tillage and residue management. Sci. Total Environ., 860: 160428.
3. Fagodiya, R.K.*, Verma, K., Sharma, G., Rai, A.K., Prajapat, K., Singh, R., Sheoran, P., Basak, N., Chandra, P., Sharma, D.P., Yadav, R.K., and Biswas, A.K., 2025. Assessing the soil organic carbon stability and greenhouse gases mitigation in rice-wheat system: seventeen-years assessment of tillage and residue management. Soil Tillage Res., 254: 106697.
4. Fagodiya, R.K.*, Pathak, H., Kumar, A., Bhatia, A., and Jain, N., 2017. Global temperature change potential of nitrogen use in agriculture: a 50-year assessment. Sci. Rep., 7: 44928.
5. Fagodiya, R.K.*, Sharma, G., Verma, K., Rai, A.K., Prajapat, K., Singh, R., Chandra, P., Sheoran, P., Yadav, R.K., and Biswas, A.K., 2024. Computation of soil quality index after fifteen years of long-term tillage and residue management experiment (LT&RE) under rice-wheat system. Agricultural Systems, 219: 104039.
6. Fagodiya, R.K.*, Sharma, G., Verma, K., Singh, A., Singh, R., Sheoran, P., Rai, A.K., Prajapat, K., Kumar, S., Chandra, P., and Rani, S., 2024. Fourteen-years impact of crop establishment, tillage and residue management on carbon input, soil carbon sequestration, crop productivity and profitability of rice-wheat system. European Journal of Agronomy, 161: 127324.
7. Mukhopadhyay, R., Fagodiya, R.K.*, Narjary, B., Barman, A., Prajapat, K., Kumar, S., Bundela, D.S., and Sharma, P.C., 2023. Restoring soil quality and carbon sequestration potential of waterlogged saline land using subsurface drainage technology to achieve land degradation neutrality in India. Sci. Total Environ., 885: 163959.
8. Pathak, H., Fagodiya, R.K.*, and Singh, A., 2024. Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium budget in crop production in South Asia: regional and country trends during the last five decades. Sci. Rep., 14: 29136.
9. Singh, R., Singh, A., Sheoran, P., Fagodiya, R.K.*, Rai, A.K., Chandra, P., Rani, S., Yadav, R.K., and Sharma, P.C., 2022. Energy efficiency and carbon footprints of rice-wheat system under long-term tillage and residue management practices in western Indo-Gangetic Plains in India. Energy, 244: 122655.
10. Wakchaure, G.C., Minhas, P.S., Biswas, A.K., Meena, K.K., Pradhan, A., Gawhale, B.J., Choudhary, R.L., Kumar, S., Fagodiya, R.K., Reddy, K.S., and Pathak, H., 2025. Assessment of gains in productivity and water-energy-carbon nexus with tillage, trash retention and fertigation practices in drip irrigated sugarcane. Renew. Sustain. Energy Rev., 211: 115294.