Rate My Professor Harbans L. Bhardwaj

Harbans L. Bhardwaj serves as Professor at the Agricultural Research Station of Virginia State University, where he has conducted research on breeding and production of potential new crops since at least 1991. He holds a Ph.D. in Agronomy from the University of Georgia, completed between 1980 and 1983, following studies at Punjab Agricultural University in Ludhiana, India. His work focuses on agronomy and plant breeding, with extensive publications addressing crop performance, nutritional quality, and adaptation of alternative crops such as pigeonpea, lablab, buckwheat, tepary bean, urdbean, dry beans, coriander, and millets under Virginia conditions and in international settings including Guatemala.

Bhardwaj has served as principal investigator on projects evaluating high-yielding lines for food security and forage uses, contributing to applied agricultural research through the university’s land-grant mission. He maintains an active publication record with over 100 works, including recent articles on genotype and production year effects for urdbean in Virginia (2026), production of black and navy beans in Virginia (2026), anti-nutrients in tepary beans (2025), and characterization of pigeonpea as a forage crop (2025). His research emphasizes crop quality, utilization, quantitative genetics, and management of specialty crops suited to regional and challenging environments.