Ranjit Riar

Ranjit Riar serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Science at California State University, Fresno's Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, where he has been a faculty member since fall 2018. He teaches undergraduate courses including Aspects of Crop Productivity, Row Crops, and Range Ecology and Management, as well as graduate-level Physiology of Cultivated Plants.

His academic credentials include:

• B.S. from Khalsa College, GNDU, Amritsar, India
• M.S. from Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India
• Ph.D. from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Dr. Riar's research program centers on agronomic systems with specialized focus on cotton, sorghum, hops, cereal crops, forage crops, and tillage methodologies. His work investigates critical aspects of crop productivity and sustainable field management practices within agricultural ecosystems.