Dr Gajanan Sawargaonkar
Dr Gajanan Sawargaonkar
Senior Scientist (Agronomy)

Dr Gajanan Sawargaonkar is a system agronomist and is working on designing, planning, and scaling up regenerative agricultural practices across different cropping systems and agroecology. Dr Sawargaonkar has steered various research initiatives, along with a consortium of international and national organizations, pertaining to cropping system designing, management, and crop diversification/intensification. His efforts are directed towards building system resilience in dryland agro-ecologies and contribute to bringing in positive impacts on soil health, system productivity, profitability, and system resilience. Dr Sawargaonkar is involved in the capacity-building of different national and international stakeholders like agricultural and allied departments, development agencies involving SAUs, and ICAR institutes on regenerative agricultural practices. Dr Sawargaonkar contributed significantly towards the implementation of various innovative projects of various Ministries, Departments of Govt. of India (NFSM), RKVY, ICAR, DST, State Governments (Govt of Odisha, Govt. of Telangana, Govt. of Karnataka, Govt of Andhra Pradesh, Govt. of Maharashtra, etc.) and development agencies viz, CSR donors, SDTT, SRTT etc. He has guided 7 Ph.D. (Agri) students, and 3 M.Sc. (Agri) Students. Dr Sawargaonkar has published more than 35 research papers, 25 technical papers/research abstracts, and 30 extension articles.