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I hold a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya (BCKV), West Bengal. Since 2007, I have been serving in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya (UBKV), where I am deeply engaged in rigorous academic instruction and research endeavors. Previously, I contributed to the development sector, spearheading initiatives aimed at enhancing rural livelihoods.
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July 2007 - December 2021
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- Professor (Assistant)
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- Research and teaching in the field of Agril. Economics
January 2007 - July 2007
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- Executive
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- Project Implementation
January 2006 - December 2006
Education
October 2001 - December 2005
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An attempt has been made to calculate the growth rates of area, production and productivity of major vegetables and fruits of West Bengal during 1997-98 to 2006-07. The study reveals that proportions of fruit crops’ and vegetables’ area to Net Cropped Area in West Bengal are increasing gradually. Mango occupies the highest proportion of area to NCA...
The study attempts to find out the cost of cultivation and profitability for jute and mesta in Dakshin Dinajpur district of West Bengal. The
study reveals that the cultivation for both the crops is profitable. The operational cost of mesta is slightly higher than Jute whereas the
result is reverse in case of net return. The input-output relationshi...
Tulaipanji is an indigenous aromatic rice landrace grown mainly in Raiganj sub-division of Uttar Dinajpur and small pockets of Dakshin Dinajpur district of West Bengal, India. Farmers cultivate it organically with no/low inputs in the jute cultivated fields after harvesting the crop. A study has been conducted with major objectives to find out the...
Extreme volatility in prices of potato is haunting the producers and consumers of the state for the last few years. The instability is greater in market arrival compared to prices across the markets and months within the same markets. In general, peak/ just after harvesting periods have experienced the higher level of fluctuations than lean periods...
Rice is one of the widely cultivated crops in Dakshin Dinajpur district. Access to farm credit enables rice farmers to meet their required needs and expand their opportunities during production process. Per capita land holding plays a significant role in the magnitude and efficiency of production and income of farm families. To meet the objective,...
Indian agriculture has undergone a significant structural transformation with the rise of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs), particularly Farmer Producer Companies (FPCs), which have emerged as key instruments of collective action. This study critically examines the transition from Farmer Interest Groups (FIGs) to FPCs in the Cooch Behar distric...
Access to agricultural credit plays a vital role for growth and development of agricultural sector in India, hence financing agriculture is an important issue in rural development. Adequate access to credit has the potential to impact technology adoption, by improving agricultural productivity and sustainable agricultural intensification. Agricultu...
"With the passage of time and needs of rural people, the number and activities of PACSs have increased manifold and undergone changes with government patronage. This paper seeks to address how and to what extend the farming people have been benefited from PACS for their economic frontier in Nadia district of West Bengal. Primary data have been anal...
With the passage of time and needs of rural people, the number and activities of PACSs have increased manifold and undergone changes with government patronage. This paper seeks to address how and to what extend the farming people have been benefited from PACS for their economic frontier in Nadia district of West Bengal. Primary data have been analy...
To make short and medium-term recommendations for effective management of water, energy, and other inputs to maximize agricultural production on a sustainable basis in the seven Eastern Indian states, the government of India launched the Bringing Green Revolution to Eastern India (BGREI) mega-program in 2010-11. The objectives of the program were t...
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.), widely considered as 'The king of vegetables', has been the most commonly cultivated food crop after rice, wheat and maize [1]. Potato growers were unable to meet the large expenses for cultivation from their own sources and they are bound to take credit from different sources due to high capital intensive nature of t...
Aims: The researcher has endeavored to analyze impacts of PACS in-terms of selected social parameters using perception of the sample respondents. The study is significant to evaluate the perception of members PACS. Place and Duration of Study: The researchers have employed 290 members in 29 PACS out of the 365 operating PACS found in the Nadia dist...
This is an edited book on new education policy of India-2020. The book tries to inquire the effectiveness of the new education policy in India.
WhatsApp is a cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service owned by Facebook, Inc. It provides an opportunity to users to send text messages and voice messages,make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other media in simple way. In the 21st century WhatsApp sends real-time messages and is one of the m...
The Resource conservation technology (RCT) is an important component for sustainability of natural resources as well as the strategic tool for food security and higher
productivity. A frontline demonstration was carried out at the farmers’ field involving 26 farmers with the surface seeding technology following RCT protocols on toria (Brassica
camp...
Rural women make substantive contributions to all the agricultural activities encompassing crop production, dairying, animal husbandry and fisheries. Their engagements are visible across the value chain. It must be appreciated, that they do this along with their responsibilities as home makers. Human labour is the most important resource in total c...
The district of Dakshin Dinajpur of West Bengal has higher Scheduled Tribe (ST) population (16.4%) as compared to state average (5.8 %) and the district is economically backward as there is no big industry, and peoples’ economy solely depends on traditional agriculture and other smaller ventures. So three blocks namely Tapan, Kumarganj and Hili blo...
Maize is grown under varied agro-climatic conditions. The area under maize is increasing gradually due to its commercial importance in West Bengal. The present study is conducted in randomly selected village of a block from the district of Cooch Behar based on the highest area and production under the crop. The information has been collected from 4...
The study is a synthesis of available information on different yield attributing traits of Indian mustard as influenced by varied irrigation schedules and sulphur levels. Pooled data of two years of study (rabi, 2010-11 and 2011-12) on nineteen traits were subjected to principal component analysis (PCA). Among the variables, test weight had the hig...
The potential impacts of climate changes on aromatic rice have been studied extensively in recent decades all around the world by different empirical and simulation models. Studies have revealed that the global temperature has risen by 0.74ºC in the past 100 years with a substantial increase in the CO2 level in the atmosphere. The sea level is expe...
This study aimed at viewing regional disparity within the state of West Bengal, India, over a long span. The study attempted to examine the pattern of relative changes in agricultural development across districts between two sub–periods. ‘Agricultural Development Index’ has been constructed in different methods. Ranking Method and Weighted Composit...
Estimation of evaporation, a major component of the hydrologic cycle, is essential for any efficient management of water resources and irrigation water demand. In this paper, an attempt has been made to study the simulation of weekly evaporation by using multiple linear regression model, multilayer perceptron MLP) and an artificial neural network (...
Agriculture in North Bengal part of West Bengal is mostly rainfed, where inter-annual and seasonal rainfall variability is high. Though the rainfall variability has been a major cause of food insecurity and famines throughout the country, the relationships between rainfall variability and fluctuations in total foodgrains production at regional scal...
Tulaipanji is an indigenous aromatic rice landrace grown mainly in Raiganj sub-division of Uttar Dinajpur and also grown in small pockets of Dakshin Dinajpur district of West Bengal, India. In general, farmers cultivate it organically with no/low inputs in the jute cultivated fields after harvesting the crop. The area of Tulaipanji has been reducin...
Intensive exploitation of synthetic pesticides pollutes the environment by contaminating soil, water, air and food. Since antiquity, neem as a botanical insecticide
is used by our predecessors. But with the onslaught of synthetic pesticides during 1940s the use of neem pesticide becomes obsolete. There is an urgent need to switch over from chemical...
Intensive exploitation of synthetic pesticides pollutes the environment by contaminating soil, water, air and food. Since antiquity, neem as a botanical insecticide is used by our predecessors. But with the onslaught of synthetic pesticides during 1940s the use of neem pesticide becomes obsolete. There is an urgent need to switch over from chemical...
The major objective of the study is to find out the major yield determining factors and their relative contribution towards farm to farm variation on vine yield in costal and saline zones of West Bengal. The input-output relation in the conservatory level has been analyzed on two econometric aspects. The first aspect highlights the mean value of de...
This study based on primary data collected from 50 sample farmers selected randomly from three development blocks namely, Kakdwip, Namkhana and Sagar blocks of South 24-Parganas district of West Bengal. The study suggests that betel-vine cultivation in the selected areas is remunerative in terms of value of viability parameters like, net present va...
Instability is very common feature in agriculture. The measurement of insatiability always bears much importance to frame a proper agricultural policy in a country. Rice in India is the major contributor of total food grains produced in India. Coefficient of Variation is commonly considered as the measure of Instability for a non-trended time serie...
An attempt has been made in this paper to estimate the inter-year variability of rice grown in different seasons in West Bengal and its constituent districts with respect to yield rate, harvest price and gross value of output per hectare for an inter-district comparison for the period from 1977-78 to 1998-99. Among the three seasonal rice grown in...
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How to calculate Mahalanobis D2 statistic in Discriminant Analysis by SPSS or any other statistical package?
Distribution of monsoon rains during the last 10 years has changed. In recent past, monsoon rains touched the mainland 15 days to 1 month later, then few weeks later were activated. This natural phenomenon is affecting the rain-fed agriculture in almost all the countries.
I would like to start a discussion to point out the possible measures to assess this change, so that food production isn't affected.
Distribution of monsoon rains during last 10 years has been changed. In recent past, monsoon touches the main land 15 days to 1 month later. Then it takes another few weeks to get activated. This natural phenomena affecting the rain-fed agriculture in almost all the countries. Lets a start a discussion to point out the probable measures to combat this change without affecting the food security.
