Editor Profile

Jiban Shrestha

University/Organization: Nepal Agricultural Research Council

Country: Nepal

 Biography

Jiban Shrestha is working as a Scientist (Plant Breeding and Genetics) at Nepal Agricultural Research Council, Nepal since 2010 to till date. Mr. Shrestha has been involved in basic and applied research on maize mainly related to development, maintenance and improvement of hybrid and open pollinated maize varieties as well as soil nutrient management for maize grown in various production systems. He has played vital role for development and release of three hybrid and three early varieties. Currently he is working as a Coordinator at National Commercial Agriculture Research Program, Pakhribas, Dhankuta, Nepal. He has published 65 peer reviewed articles in both national and international journals, 10 proceeding papers and 2 books.

He has been affiliated to 40 journals as editor or reviewer. He has worked as reviewer of 8 international conferences related to agriculture. He has joined as member of Society of Agricultural Scientist, Nepal (SAS-N), Agronomy Society Nepal (ASON), Asian Council of Science Editors (ACSE), European Association of Science Editors (EASE) and Council of Asian Science Editors (CASE). He has guided 6 agricultural graduate and 3 postgraduate students for their thesis research.