Jiban Shrestha is working as a Scientist (Plant Breeding and Genetics) at Nepal Agricultural Research Council, Nepal since 2010 to present. Mr. Shrestha has been involved in basic and applied research on crops mainly maize and rice related to their development, maintenance and improvement as well as soil nutrient management for these crops grown in various production systems. Currently he is working as a Scientist at Agricultural Botany Division, Khumnaltar, Lalitpur, Nepal. He has published more than100 peer reviewed articles in both national and international journals, 10 proceeding papers and 8 books. He has been affiliated to more than 40 journals as editor or reviewer. He has worked as reviewer of 11 international conferences related to agriculture. He has guided 10 agricultural graduate and 4 postgraduate students for their thesis research. His research of interest are plant breeding, agronomy, plant biotechnology and plant Science.Dr. Subash Subedi is a senior scientist (Plant pathology) of Nepal Agricultural Research Council, Nepal. He was born in 15th September 1982 in Sarkuwa- 7 Baglung, Nepal. He is the elder son of Mr. Kamal Subedi and Mrs. Purna kala Subedi. He completed his Ph.D. in Agriculture (Plant Pathology) from Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Tribhuvan University (TU) Kirtipur, Kathmandu in 2016. He lived in a subtropical area and he is very concerned by the agricultural development, biodiversity preservation, social welfare and natural resource management. As a member of the national NGO and INGO, he participated in several programs for the protection and assistance for victims of social conflict and internal tensions and also for the cultivation of medicinal as well as agronomic crops in the farmers field, which have a national interest. He had an almost 12 -years working experience as a project coordinator in the French INGO for the medicinal plant project (4 years), scientist (6 years) and currently as a senior scientist (Plant pathologist) in Nepal Agricultural Research Council for 2 years. He has been affiliated to more than 10 national and international journals as reviewer. He has guided 10 agricultural graduates and 2 postgraduate students for their thesis research and also served as an external examiner for many graduate and post graduate students of PU and AFU. His research interests are plant pathology, integrated disease management, mycology and virology. He has actively participated in various national and international seminars, conference, workshops trainings and research activities related to pathological research. He has been already published more than 25 national and international peer reviewed articles regarding plant pathological and agricultural research.Dr. Krishna P. Timsina is currently a Senior Scientist at Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC), Socio-Economics and Agricultural Policy Research Division (SARPOD), Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Nepal. He obtained his PhD (AgriBusiness Management) degree in 2015 from Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. He has interest on different research areas such as farm business analysis, value chain, supply chain, agricultural policy analysis, agribusiness and international trade analysis. He has published more than 30 peer reviewed articles in both national and international journals, 11 proceeding papers, two books, and one book chapter. He has experience as editor and reviewer in both national and international journals. He has guided three postgraduate students and served as external examiner for nine masters and two PhD candidates. He was awarded several grants/fellowship such as endeavor post-doctoral research fellowship by Australian Government; Hort.CRSP PhD research grants by Horticulture Innovative Lab, USA; civil society scholar awards by Foundation Open Society Institute (FOSI), Baarerstrasse, Switzerland and global supplementary research grant by Open Society Foundation, New York, USA.Samaya Gairhe has been working as a social scientist in Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC), Singhdurbar Plaza, Kathmandu from seven years. He obtained his master degree in agricultural economics in 2011 from University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, India. He has done research on seed system, adoption, land use, insurance, value chain and marketing issues. He has published more than 20 articles in both journals and proceeding. He is a life member of Nepal agricultural economic society, Nepal.Manoj Kandel is currently a plant breeder at Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC), Hill Crops Research Program, Kabre, Dolakha, Nepal. He was born on 6th April 1993 in Bharatpur, Chitwan, Nepal. He is youngest son of Mr. Bhim Prasad Kandel and Ms. Tara Kumari Kandel. He obtained his Master in Agriculture Science (M.Sc. Ag) with major in Genetics and Plant Breeding in Agri-Botany and conservation Ecology at Agriculture and Forestry University (AFU), Rampur, Chitwan in 2018. He has interest on biotic and abiotic stress tolerant breeding program, molecular genetics and biotechnology, diversity of crops, contribute and change the scenario of breeding status of Nepal. He has published more than 13 research articles, 2 review papers in both national and international one book chapter.Mahesh Subedi is currently working as scientist (plant breeding and genetics) at Agriculture Botany Division, Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC), Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Nepal. He has obtained his master's degree (M. Sc. Ag) in Plant Breeding from Institute of Agriculture and Animal Sciences, Tribhuvan University, Rampur, Chitwan, Nepal in 2013. He has been involved in cereal breeding, varietal research, multi-environment trial (MET), in-vitro culture and mutagenesis, marker assisted selection, DNA fingerprinting and genomic studies in NARC since 2013. He has published more than 20 research articles in journals and proceedings, two books, a book chapter, and has also worked as the editor of books and reviewer in a journal.
