
CHANDIGARH, Nov 12: The Punjab government has appointed Dr Sukhdev Singh, former agriculture commissioner of Government of India as eminent scientist member of the Board of Management of Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana for a period of three years. Dr Sukhdev Singh has also worked as Director of Agriculture, Punjab for a number of years. During his period as Director of Agriculture, a number of new crops were experimented with and successfully introduced in the state fields.