Trajectory of 75 Years of Indian Agriculture After Independence

DR. P K GHOSH working as Founder Director and Vice Chancellor, ICAR-National Institute of Biotic Stress Management (NIBSM), Raipur, earlier demonstrated leadership as National Coordinator, National Agricultural Higher Education Project -World Bank aided project, ICAR, New Delhi, Director, Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi and Head, Crop Production Division, Indian Institute of pulses Research. His pioneering works are on climate change, carbon sequestration, Resource use efficiency, conservation agriculture, crop diversification, soil water conservation, Integrated Farming System . He has been identified as one of the two percent of agricultural scientists at global level and Member, Royal Society of Research, London. He is recipient of 19 national awards including M.S. Randhawa Memorial Award for best Administration and also Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India and National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), and three professional society. He served as Chairman by organizing 23rd International Grassland Congress (IGC) held first time in India, executive member of IGC continuing committee representing South-East Asia, Sectional President, Agricultural section of Indian Science Congress. Editor-in-chief, National Academy of Science, India. Considering his academic, administrative and research excellence he was selected as co-opted member of DFI Committee, constituted by PMO and contributed to bring 14 volumes on DFI. He also formulated four policy papers for the country. He published 20 books and 167 research papers in the high impact factor journals with the total citation of 7947, h-index of 40 and i-10 index of 90 and total publication of 304.
DR. ANUP DAS is presently serving as Principal Scientist (Agronomy) at ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Tripura Centre, India. His extensive research works led to development of package of practices for no-till production of pulses and oilseeds in rice and maize fallow areas; organic production packages of 33 important crops on cropping system approach; standardization of Modified System of Rice Intensification and Raised and Sunken Bed land configuration, watershed based Integrated Farming System models, produce quality, input use efficiencies, soil properties and C-pools under different land uses and management practices. He has guided/ co-guided 17 masters and two Ph.D students and taught 6 courses to PG students. He has published 200 research articles, 74 books, compendium & technical bulletins, and many other documents with total citation of 4000 and h-index of 36 in his credit. He is actively involved in technology transfer for livelihood improvement of farmers through large scale capacity building programme and demonstrations benefitting about 50,000 farmers in north east India. He has received several National awards like ICAR-Lal Bahadur Shastri outstanding young scientist award, Swami Sahajanand Saraswati outstanding extension scientist award, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed award for improving tribal farming system, ICAR-Inter-disciplinary team research award in natural resource management and First Dr. H.K. Jain - CAU, Imphal Award for research excellence in north east India among many others. Dr. Das is recipient of the prestigious Fellowships of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (2019), Indian Society of Agronomy (2017), Indian Association of Hill Farming (IAHF-2017) and Society for Biotic and Environmental Research (2020).
DR RAKA SAXENA is currently working as a Principal Scientist at ICAR-National Institute for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (NIAP), located in New Delhi, India. Her areas of interest in research include agricultural trade, animal science, and agricultural economics. She has more than 15 years of research experience and has published more than 50 papers in prestigious publications on anational and worldwide scale. In addition, she has written more than 20 book chapters and eight policy papers, briefs, and working papers. She has contributed via innovative, multi-disciplinary, and multi-institutional initiatives that are founded on evidence-based policy insights. She maintained her research agenda with a focus on the urgent need for prioritizing and evaluating agricultural research in order to directly benefit the nation's farmers. She focused on two important aspects of the country's agriculture, notably those that dealt with market intelligence for handling price volatility and enhancing farmers' incomes. Her most recent study focuses on methods for maximizing the potential of the agricultural trade to raise farm incomes.
DR. GOURANGA KAR is presently the Director of ICAR-Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibres (ICAR-CRIJAF), Barrackpore. Earlier he served as Principal Scientist, ICAR-Indian Institute of Water Management, Bhubaneswar. He has done pioneering contribution in quantification of water footprint in India on farm scale and designed & implemented many national / international project related to water and watershed management, crop growth modelling, climate change research, mitigation and adaptation, land use and cropping system using RS and GIS. He developed GIS based decision rules to prepare sustainable alternative land-use plan on watershed basis. To increase crop productivity and cropping intensity of rainfed rice agro-ecosystem, he has developed crop diversification technology along with in-situ soil conservation, technologies of modification of microclimate, low cost soil amelioration of acidic land, irrigation scheduling of crops of post-rice season. He has designed innovative flood water harvesting system, on-dyke agro-forestry, pond based farming and standardized cultivation of salt resistant crops for coastal agro-ecosystem, designed site specific groundwater recharge structures and validated in different agro-climatic regions of the country. He also significantly contributed in standardizing dugwell based drip-fertigation system to obtain higher land and crop productivity of vegetable crops. He has published more than 200 research papers, review paper and book chapters of immense academic as well as practical importance. He is also fellow of different scientific Societies like National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (FNAAS), Indian Society of Soil Science (FISSS), Indian Association of Soil and Water Conservationists (FIASWC), Association of Agro-meteorologists (FAAM), and West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (FWAST), Indian Society of Coastal Agricultural Research (ISCAR). Also he is a recipient of many prestigious awards namely; ICAR Vasant Rao Naik Award 2004; IARI Sukumar Bosu Memorial Award; ASWC Dr. K. G. Tejwani Award 2006; ICAR Hari Om Ashram Trust Award 2007-08; USDA Norman Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology FellowshipAward 2008; NAAS Recognition Award 2012; ICAR-Swami Sahajananda Saraswati Award 2019; Rajbhasa Gaurav Puraskar 2019.
DR KAUSHIK BANERJEE is a Principal Scientist from ICAR-National Research Centre for Grapes, Pune. He is heading the National Reference Laboratory on pesticide residues and mycotoxins in India. His area of research focuses on the development of efficient analysis methods for the sensitive and confirmatory estimation of pesticide residues and mycotoxins in agricultural and food matrices and risk assessment studies for the fixation of crop-specific maximum residue limits. Dr Banerjee's extensive contributions to science and the community have earned him numerous national and international laurels. He received the prestigious Harvey W. Wiley Award of AOAC INTERNATIONAL in 2017 and the Recognition Award of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) in 2019. Earlier, he was named as a Fellow by the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), NationalFellow- Indian Council of Agricultural Research, and Fellow-NAAS.
DR. D. VIJAY is a Principal Scientist at ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi and has more than 17 years of research, teaching and extension experience in seed science and technology. He specialized in seed physiology and has good expertise in seed production of various crops, including grass species. He worked as a zonal seed production officer and nodal officer (seed) in different institutes for more than nine years. He published more than 30 research articles in various national and international journals, two books, ten book chapters and several bulletins, compendium ch apters and training manuals. He is a gold medalist in UG and PhD and received several young/best scientist awards from different academic societies and is an associate fellow of the Range Management Society of India. He is an editorial board member of four journals and delivered more than 30 invited lectures in severalnational and international training programs. He guided 3 MSc students and presently guiding 4 PhD students at ICAR-IARI. He got nominated as a Regional Representative, India of the International Society for Seed Science, UK.

博士 P K GHOSH 擔任 ICAR-國家生物性壓力管理研究所 (NIBSM) 的創始主任及副校長，之前曾擔任國家農業高等教育項目（世界銀行資助項目）國家協調員、印度草地與飼料研究所所長及印度脈衝作物研究所作物生產部門負責人。他在氣候變遷、碳封存、資源利用效率、保育農業、作物多樣化、土壤水分保育及綜合農業系統等領域的開創性工作，使他被認定為全球僅有的兩個百分比的農業科學家之一，並成為倫敦皇家研究學會的成員。他獲得了19項國家獎項，包括 M.S. Randhawa 紀念獎（最佳行政獎），同時也是印度國家科學院及國家農業科學院（NAAS）的院士，以及三個專業學會的成員。他擔任了第23屆國際草地大會（IGC）主席，該會議首次在印度舉行，並作為東南亞的代表成為 IGC 繼續委員會的執行委員，還擔任印度科學大會農業分會的區域主席。擔任印度國家科學院的主編。考慮到他的學術、行政及研究卓越，他被選為由總理辦公室成立的 DFI 委員會的共同成員，並為 DFI 編寫了14卷資料。他還為國家制定了四份政策文件。他出版了20本書籍及167篇高影響因子期刊的研究論文，總引用次數為7947，h-index為40，i-10指數為90，總出版物為304。

博士 ANUP DAS 目前擔任印度 ICAR 研究中心東北地區的首席科學家（農藝學）。他的廣泛研究工作促成了在水稻和玉米休耕區域進行無耕作脈衝作物和油料作物生產的實踐包的開發；基於作物系統方法的33種重要作物的有機生產包；改良水稻強化系統的標準化及高低床地形配置、以流域為基礎的綜合農業系統模型、不同土地利用及管理實踐下的產品質量、投入使用效率、土壤特性及碳庫。他指導或共同指導了17名碩士及2名博士生，並教授了6門研究生課程。他發表了200篇研究文章、74本書籍、彙編及技術公報，以及許多其他文件，總引用次數為4000，h-index為36。他積極參與技術轉移，透過大規模能力建設計劃及示範，改善農民生計，惠及約50,000名東北印度的農民。他獲得了多項國家獎項，如 ICAR-Lal Bahadur Shastri 傑出青年科學家獎、Swami Sahajanand Saraswati 傑出推廣科學家獎、Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed 獎以改善部落農業系統、ICAR-跨學科團隊自然資源管理研究獎及第一屆 Dr. H.K. Jain - CAU, Imphal 獎以表彰在東北印度的研究卓越等。Das 博士是國家農業科學院（2019年）、印度農藝學會（2017年）、印度山地農業協會（IAHF-2017）及生物性與環境研究學會（2020年）的榮譽院士。

博士 RAKA SAXENA 目前擔任位於印度新德里的 ICAR-國家農業經濟與政策研究所（NIAP）的首席科學家。她的研究興趣包括農業貿易、動物科學及農業經濟學。她擁有超過15年的研究經驗，並在國內外的知名出版物上發表了超過50篇論文。此外，她還撰寫了超過20篇書籍章節及八份政策文件。