Dr. Akath Singh, Senior Scientist (Horticulture) at ICARCentral Arid Zone Research Institute with more than 15 years of experience in production and improvement of various fruit crops. He had his post graduation from Dr. Y.S. Parmar UHF, Solan (H.P) and Ph.D. from BHU Varanasi U.P. During his early career as Scientist at ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region Meghalaya he immensely contributed in hill horticulture. Presently he has been engaged in various aspects of resource management in arid fruit crops worth mentioning are pomegranate, ber and lasora. He was a delegate Indian scientist to China. He has been honoured with BIOVED Young Scientist Associate Award 2014. He has more than 80 publications to his credit.