Dr. A.K. Srivastava, having received his M.Sc.(Ag) and Ph.D in Soil Science from  world famous Banaras Hindu University  is currently perched as Principal Scientist (Soil Science) at ICAR-Central Citrus Research Institute , Maharashtra, India. He is specialized in nutrient constraints analysis and mapping by DRIS-based soil-plant nutrient diagnostics, orchard efficiency modeling, targeted yield-based site specific nutrient management, rhizosphere specific microbial consortium , INM concept, rhizosphere hybridization ,fertigation partitioning , substrate dynamic, and soil  fertility map as decision support for fertilizer recommendation. He is the  life Member of as many as 33 Academic Societies,  Honorary Fellow of  3 academic Societies, and Lif eTime Achievement Awards by 3-Academic Societies.

He is the member of Editorial Board of some prestigious peer reviewed journals like Journal of Plant Nutrition, Communications in Soil Science and  Plant Analysis , Int. J. of Fruit Science (Taylor & Francis, USA),Journal of Agronomy and Crop Sciences (Crop Sci. Soc. Am.), and Associate Editor, Agronomy Journal (Am. Soc. Agron.) , Folia Horticulturae ( Polish Acad. of Sci. ), Scientia Agricola (Brazilian Acad. Agri. Sci.), Fruits( ISHS) , Frontiers in Pl. Science and Frontiers in Hort. ( Frontiers Sci. , Switzerland), BMC Pl. Biology ( Springer ), Discover Agriculture( Springer) , PlosOne( Springer) to name few important journals. He is Adjunct Faculty of three agricultural universities in India and Visiting Professor at Huazhong Agriculture University, Hubei and Yangtze University, Jingzhuo, China and Visiting Scientist , AREEO, Iran.