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We welcome Raman on April 1, 2025 to Salem County Cooperative Extension. In his role as County
Extension Agent in Commercial Agricultural Production for Salem County, Raman will provide leadership in assessing local agricultural needs and implementing relevant educational programming and research in commercial agronomic crop production.
Raman comes to us from USDA–Agricultural Research Service in Mississippi. He holds a Ph.D. in
Plant and Soil Sciences with a specialization in Agronomy, an M.S. in Agribusiness Administration,
and a B.Tech. in Agricultural Engineering.
He worked for six years as an Agriculture Extension Officer in India and as a Teaching Assistant at
Mississippi State University. He has several published research articles on topics such as the
production of corn, soybeans, oats, sorghum, wheat, the role of sulfur in crop production, and
economics in commercial crop production. He can be contacted at the Rutgers Cooperative
Extensionof Salem County- 856-769-0090- Suite 1, 51 Cheney Rd., Woodstown, NJ 08098.