SUMMARY BIODATA OF DR. C. PARMAR

1. Name: Chiranjit Parmar

2. Age: 69, born on 16 March 1939.

3. CONTACT ADDRESS:   Dr. C. Parmar

                                                       186/3 Jail Road

                                                       Mandi   HP.   175 001   INDIA.

                                                       Phone: (01905)222810, 94181-81323

       e-mail: parmarch_mnd@dataone.in

      Website: www.fruitipedia.com

4. Academic qualification: Ph.D. in Horticulture from University of Udaipur, India.

5. Major field of research: Wild, unexploited and lesser known fruit and multipurpose plants.

6. Experience:

    Total experience in the profession:  40 years.

        Serving corporate clients, mostly US companies, as CONSULTANT, in the area of :  10 years

           lesser known plants.

          Setting up and management of project on the domestication and cultivation of a  :  2 years

            wild growing medicinal plant for an Indo-Italian Pharmaceutical Company.

       Establishment, development and management of Fruit Research Stations as:  8 years.

        Scientist In charge of each research station; research on fruits

     Teaching, research and supervision of M. Sc. and Ph.D. students at universities in:  14 years.

       India and abroad.

       Horticulture extensions work in an International Agricultural Development Project:  2 years.

       Research on the evaluation of germplasm of subtropical fruits as a research assistant:  4 years.

7. Number of students supervised: Ph.D., 2; M. Sc., 6.

8. Experience out of India:

     Employment:    a. University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq.

                                b. University of Liberia, Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa.

                                c. The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,  Balsgard, Kristianstad, Sweden.

     Fellowship:    Senior Fellowship, The Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan.

     Countries visited: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bhutan, Brazil, China, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Liberia, Maldives, Malaysia, Nepal, Russia,                  Singapore, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, UK and USA.

9. Publications:

     Books: One published in 1982; second likely to go to press shortly.

     CD Rom: One, entitled SOME WILD GROWING FRUITS, NUTS AND EDIBLE PLANTS OF THE WESTERN HIMALAYAS, released in in              2007.

     Online encyclopedia on edible fruits – Launched on 16 May, 2008 on the website, www.fruitipedia.com .  This has information on 200 edible  fruits from various parts of the World.  Pages on new fruits are being added every week.

     Research papers: 35.

     Magazine/Newspaper articles: 130.

     Newspaper column: I regularly wrote a fortnightly column on improved farm practices from August 1982

                                          to December 1983 in The Daily Observer, the largest circulated newspaper of Liberia.

10. Awards & honours:  I was given Himachal Shree Award on for 2007 in recognition for my efforts and

                                             contribution for the promotion of wild growing fruits of Himachal Pradesh.

11. Present position held: 

Proprietor and Chief Horticulturist, Horticultural Sales & Services, a consultancy and export company engaged in the business of providing technical information and supplying plant material of lesser known Indian plants.

4-2-08