Rajiv Khosla is an Indian-American

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and professor of precision agriculture. He is best known for his work on measurement and management of in-field soil and crop spatial variability for nutrients.

Biography

Khosla received his B.Sc. in agriculture sciences from the

University of Allahabad , mottoeng = "As Many Branches So Many Trees" , established = , type = Public , chancellor = Ashish Chauhan , vice_chancellor = Sangita Srivastava , head_label ...

India in 1992. He received his M.S. in soil physics and his Ph.D. from

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in 1992 and 1995, respectively. Since 1999, he has been on the faculty of

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where he held the Monfort Professorship from 2008-2010. Khosla is an Honorary Lifetime Fellow of International Society of Precision Agriculture, a selected

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, and a Fellow of the Soil and Water Conservation Society, the American Society of Agronomy, and the Soil Science Society of America. In 2012, he served as Jefferson Science Fellow in the Bureau of East Asia Pacific Affairs at the

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. In 2015, he was named the Precision Agriculture Educator of the Year.

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* Living people University of Allahabad alumni Virginia Tech alumni Colorado State University faculty Jefferson Science Fellows Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences alumni Year of birth missing (living people) American soil scientists {{India-scientist-stub