Institution/Organization: Kansas State University, Manhattan

Email Address: vara@ksu.edu

Committee(s): Collaborator

P.V. Vara Prasad is a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Feed the Future Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab at Kansas State University. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. from Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (India) and Ph.D. from the University of Reading (U.K.). His research focuses on understanding responses of crops to changing environments; and developing best management strategies to improve and protect yields. He has active programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America and Caribbean. He has published over 350 journal articles and book chapters; trained 160 research scholars from 25 countries. His research has been cited over 21,000 times with an h-index of 75. He is an elected fellow of American Society of Agronomy; Crop Science Society of America; and American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the Past President of the Crop Science Society of America.