Dhritiman Das

• Contributed to departmental goals by serving on various committees focused on curriculum development, assessment strategies, and accreditation requirements, Board of Studies.
• Mentored students and communicated internship and employment opportunities.
• Designed exercises and materials to demonstrate the application of course concepts.

• Company Overview: Professional Assistance for Development Action, a non-government, non-profit organization that works with India's rural poor
• Plans and strategies with respect to Usharmukti Plus deliverables as per project goals and help CSO field teams to execute those
• Designing the sustainable farm sector livelihood models for the project
• Integrating farm-based livelihoods with NRM assets created through Usharmukti Plus project following the principals of agriculture production cluster development
• Capacity building of district and block MGNREGS teams on farm-based livelihoods as per need generated from government administration
• Professional Assistance for Development Action, a non-government, non-profit organization that works with India's rural poor

• Company Overview: Regional Plant Quarantine Station, Kolkata
• Popularizing IPM approach among farming community
• Conducting regular pest surveillance & monitoring to assess pest/disease situation
• Rearing biological control agents for their field use and conservation of naturally occurring bio-agents
• Promotion of bio-pesticides and neem based pesticides as alternative to chemical pesticides
• To play a catalytic role in spread of innovative IPM skills to extension workers, land farmers equally to resource-poor and resource-rich states
• Inspection of imported agricultural commodities for preventing the introduction of exotic pests and diseases inimical to Indian fauna and flora
• Inspection of plants and plant material meant for export as per the requirements under International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) 1951 of FAO to facilitate pest free trade
• Detection of exotic pests and diseases for their containment by adopting domestic quarantine regulations, if introduced
• Regional Plant Quarantine Station, Kolkata

• Company Overview: Regional Plant Quarantine Station, Kolkata
• Conduct research to diagnose problems in the field or establish weed management system
• Identify weeds for farmers and give them agronomical guidance to control weed
• Work to find chemical formulations that are effective in killing resistant weeds
• Plant crop trials both in fields and greenhouses to use for research
• Manage a team of lab staff and/or field labourers
• Organize, analyse research data and Submit research to journals and scholarly papers
• Present presentations on research findings and new techniques at conferences and to farmers
• Regional Plant Quarantine Station, Kolkata

• To visit research fields to scout and collect crop data as scheduled by the system
• To follow-up the IPDM & agronomical advisory delivered by the system for proper compliance
• Multi-disciplinary research, evaluation of germplasm, varieties & technology
• Fibre quality assessment and product diversification
• Technology transfer to farmer

• To adopt an end-to-end holistic approach covering pre-production, production, post-harvest management, and marketing to assure appropriate returns to growers/producers
• Promote R&D technologies for cultivation, production, post-harvest management and processing with special focus on cold chain infrastructure for extending the shelf life of perishables
• Assessment of Cost of cultivation for Agricultural/Horticultural Crops
• Improve irrigation & IPDM management for better yield per acre

GPA: 79%

• Master's Degree Thesis: Effect of planting geometry and foliar nutrition of potassium nitrate on the cultivars of sunflower (Helainthus annus L.)
• GPA: 81.50%

Ph.D. on Agriculture ( Agronomy ) & Crop Science especially on Integrated Nutrient Management practices on Quality Protein Maize.