Dr Charanjit Singh Aulakh joined PAU in 1995 and was elevated to the position of Director, School of Organic Farming in 2017. He has 28 years’ extensive experience in teaching, research and extension. He taught different UG & PG courses and guided three Ph.D. and ten M.Sc. students as major advisor. He has to his credit seven books, two teaching manuals and 18 book chapters. He has been Secretary of Alumni Association, College of Agriculture; Coordinator of College Placement Cell and President of PAU-INSPIRE Club.

Dr Aulakh has handled several externally funded research projects in the field of organic farming, Good Agricultural Practices and Integrated Farming System. He has developed 50 production technologies on different crops/cropping systems, organic farming, INM, integrated farming system (IFS), vermicomposting, weed management, biofertilizers and zero tillage. He has published 71 research papers, two review papers, five conference papers and two invited papers. He has received three best research centre team awards, three best paper presentation awards and one best research paper award. He organized 52 training programmes and three certificate courses; delivered 49 invited lectures, 249 training lectures and 46 TV and radio talks, and published 81 extension articles and six extension folders. He attended 132 international and national seminars/workshops including four in Philippines, The Netherlands, Mauritius, and Switzerland. As Director of the School, he was instrumental in getting two DBT and one DST funded projects; signed MOU with FiBL, Switzerland; established ‘PAU-Organic Farmers’ Club’ and PAU-Aromatic & Spice Growers’ Club, and developed ‘PAU SAFEFOOD Production Practices’ certification programme for certified safe food production. He has been expert member in different committees of ICAR, DST, CSIR and PHDCCI.