
Passionate about Teaching. Extension Officer with practical experience in disease and pest diagnosis and chemical treatment. Strengths include effective teaching to students in academics. strategies, providing technical advice to farmers, and enhancing rural livelihoods through sustainable practices. Previous work has positively impacted diploma students to admit in graduation communities.
Laboratory Skills : Chemical analyses of soil and water samples, seed testing, isolation of phytopathogenic bacteria and fungi from diseased plants, gram staining, identification, isolation, and maintenance of fungi, and preparation of different media such as potato agar, potato dextrose agar, and King’s B media, sampling and extraction of nematodes from soil, and mass production of bio-control agents including Trichoderma and Trichogramma species
Gained hands-on experience with Systronics UV-VIS Double Beam Spectrophotometer (AU-
2702), Systronics Flame Photometer, Kelplus Classic DX Kjeldahl Nitrogen Distillation
Apparatus, Soil Compaction Meter, Pressure Plate Apparatus, Tensiometer, and Soil
Thermometer, Gas Chromatography for Greenhouse Gas Estimation and received training on
Lab Safety and Precautionary measures
Molecular Biology:DNA extraction, PCR, agarose gel electrophoresis
Software: Data analysis using MS Office
Field research: Experimental plot designing, layout, and preparation for sowing, planting,
harvesting, soil nutrient sampling, soil moisture profiling, diagnosis, and management of
major diseases, and disorders Insect pest identification in agronomic and horticultural crops
Maintaining Material Safety data sheet (MSDS) of various chemicals and driving 2 and
4-wheelers