Narendra Kumar, completed his Ph.D. from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi and joined Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of ICAR in 2003. Dr. Kumar received Junior Research Fellowship and Senior Research Fellowship of ICAR for his post-graduation and doctoral degree. Dr. Kumar started his career as scientist at VPKAS, Almora and developed technologies for crop diversification with off-season vegetables and pulses, intercropping, relay cropping, protected agriculture, weed management and resource conservation practices. He was associated in release of 15 varieties of pulses and oilseeds for different zones of country. He is recipient of Dr. P.S. Deshmukh Young Agronomist Award 2009 by Indian Society of Agronomy. He has published more than 35 research papers in international as well as national journals. Dr. Kumar is presently working as senior scientist at Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur and involved in research activities related to crop diversification, resource conservation technology and weed management in pulse based cropping systems.