He was born in a small village Rajapur in the Mau District of Uttar Pradesh, India.

[1] He has coordinated several large multi-institutional network projects in the area of plant biotechnology and molecular breeding and has developed more than a dozen climate-resilient varieties of rice tolerant to drought, flooding and salinity for cultivation by the Indian farmers.

in Genetics and Plant Breeding in 1980 from Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.

He works at the Indian Council for Agricultural Research with a motive to make India more self-reliant in area of food security and crop improvement and for the welfare of farmers by playing a leading role in applying the power of Genomics revolution.

Singh has worked worldwide with researchers to improve various traits of crops like rice, wheat, pigeonpea and tomato.

He has been a part of many national and international research projects in the area of plant biotechnology and genomics.