Dr. K. Kumar is a Professor in the Dept. of Agrl. Microbiology, Tamil Nadu Agrl. University, Coimbatore. He has got a teaching and research experience of 20 years and is a specialist on biological nitrogen fixation associated with rice. He has developed some practical technologies for biofertilizer application rice. He has visited the University of Nottingham, Nottingham and King’s College, University of London, UK under British Council Academic Exchange Programme. He is a recipient of Prof G. Rangaswami Gold Medal for Best Ph.D student in Microbiology for the year 1995. He has published 50 research papers in national and international journals, actively participated in the national and international conferences and published 4 books. He has been the Principal Investigator of the projects funded by ICAR, DBT, TNSCST etc.