Dr. U.N. Joshi worked on various forage crops and guar as Senior Scientist (Biochemistry) at CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar. He is engaged in the research work related to guar and forage crops since last 29 years. He has contributed to the quality work for development and release of varieties viz., HG-182, HFG-156, HG-258, HG-365, HG-563 and HG 2-20 of guar, HM-65 of Methi and HFWS-55 of Senji. He has published more than 90 research papers in national and international journals of repute. He is one of the authors of the book : Environment-111. He is recipients of “Rafi Ahmad Kidwai Memorial Prize for Agricultural Research for the biennium 1982- 83”, “ICAR Team Research Award on Forage Sorghum for the biennium 1983-84 and also received Jawaharlal Nehru Award For best Post Graduate Resesearch” for the year 1991. He was Principal Investigator of project funded by ICAR and Co PI of project funded by NATP and MFPI. He is also looking after the work of Secretary, Indian Society of Forage Research.