
Kabita MondalNorth Bengal Agricultural University · Department of Agricultural Extension
Kabita Mondal
Ph.D. in Agricultural Extension Education
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Introduction
Currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Extension in Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Majhian Campus.
Additional affiliations
May 2015 - July 2020
Education
July 2012 - August 2014
July 2008 - July 2012
Publications
Publications (43)
The rapid advancements in agricultural technology and the liberalization and globalization of the economy necessitate a comprehensive overhaul of the agricultural extension system. This reorientation and modernization are crucial for ensuring that agricultural extension services remain effective and relevant. Role and activities of agricultural ext...
"Never ever in the annals of human civilization, the importance of ecological resilience has become so important and imperative as we are perceiving now. Both the need and greed of food economics have driven the resource bases of our ecosystem, to a dilapidated and fragile status. By 2050 the world population will touch close to 9.5 billion and we...
In an era marked by rapid technological advancements and global shifts, the fields of rural development and agricultural extension remain pivotal in shaping sustainable futures for communities worldwide. This book seeks to delve deep into the complexities and innovations within these crucial sectors, offering a comprehensive overview that bridges t...
“Fundamentals of Extension Education” endeavors to introduce readers to the foundational elements that constitute the realm of extension education, particularly tailored for students pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture. This book emerges as an essential guide, meticulously designed to bridge the theoretical constructs and practical applic...
Public health nutrition programs play a pivotal role in
safeguarding the health and well-being of populations across the
globe. This chapter provides an in-depth exploration of the
foundational principles, key components, and overarching goals of
public health nutrition initiatives. It highlights the determinants of
health and nutrition, empha...
This review paper comprehensively examines the multifaceted effects of climate change on fruit crops, delving into physiological, phenological, and pest-related responses. Climate change, characterized by shifts in temperature, precipitation patterns, and extreme events, presents profound challenges to fruit crop cultivation and production. By anal...
This review paper comprehensively examines the multifaceted effects of climate change on fruit crops, delving into physiological, phenological, and pest-related responses. Climate change, characterized by shifts in temperature, precipitation patterns, and extreme events, presents profound challenges to fruit crop cultivation and production. By anal...
Millet, an often-overlooked cereal grain, has recently garnered attention due to its rich store of health-promoting phenolic compounds. This comprehensive review delves into the myriad facets of millet phenolics, from their extraction and analysis to their implications for health and disease risk reduction. The varied methodologies for phenolic ext...
Sustainable farming emerges as a comprehensive approach capable of addressing many of the challenges our world faces today-from climate change and biodiversity loss to food insecurity and socioeconomic disparities. It's a concept grounded in the three key principles of resource efficiency, ecological balance, and social equity. Through practices li...
Soil a significant carbon sink, plays a pivotal role in mitigating climate change. This review underscores the potential of soil amendments for enhancing carbon sequestration, focusing on the intricate relationship between these amendments and soil microbial communities. Soil amendments, ranging from biochar and organic compost to mineral additives...
This comprehensive review highlights the multifaceted potential of millets as a nutritional powerhouse, a sustainable agricultural choice, and a means to tackle global nutritional challenges. Coinciding with the International Year of Millets, the paper focuses on the significance of millets as highly nutritious and resilient cereal staples that can...
Climate has got a direct impact on global food production. Soil erosion, crop disease-pest outbreaks, and other problems are caused and accentuated by rapid climate change (or other factors), necessitating more resource surveillance and management in order to develop new adaptation techniques and strategies in the face of changing climate and resou...
The excessive reliance on chemical fertilizers and the negligence shown to the conservation and use of organic manures (OM) have led to the exhaustion of organic carbon level, soil moisture level, and retention of microorganism population in the soil. The present study reveals that the farmers merely have any perception or they are not technically...
The excessive reliance on chemical fertilizers and the negligence shown to the conservation and use of organic manures (OM) have led to the exhaustion of organic carbon level, soil moisture level, and retention of microorganism population in the soil. The present study reveals that the farmers merely have any perception or they are not technically...
Energy is the main text of agricultural modernization as well as civilization as a whole. The energy consumption pattern is an indicator on the kind and nature of energy balances in 'social ecology' where we have to organize all sets of factor productions. The indiscriminate consumption of energy, as has been reflected in water management, soil and...
Indian farming has been evolving mostly with an intrinsic and systemic contradiction; when productivity increases, income plunges; and, when both income and productivity improve simultaneously, livelihood may decline. This is mainly due to the non-integration amongst and between the production, market and livelihood. Global observers are shocked to...
Many developing countries, including India are characterized by non-uniformity in level of education, poverty, awareness, socioeconomic development, practices and rituals which add to the complexity of getting proper sanitation and hygiene. One of the most neglected aspects of Indian agriculture is that it seldom ignores the health and hygiene issu...
Yellow flesh watermelon a newly introduced cash crop gaining a high level of economic importance in the generation of income as the exterior doesn't look any different than red variety of watermelon. But these are the hybrids of different varieties of melon but not genetically modified products. The flesh colors in watermelon are due to the intrins...
Modern agricultural practices are decisively dependent on the application of synthetic fertilizers to meet the food requirement of their people; but it leads to the deterioration of soil fertility profile. Photoautotrophic organisms, Cyanobacteria, in this context can be very effective or enriching soil organic carbon and nitrogen and enhancing pho...
Aims: In this empirical study an attempt is made to examine the relative importance of some socioeconomic and demographic variables that affect the nutrition of farming community. This empirical study has been carried out for farmers and farm women separately and also for both combined to understand both ecological and gender dimensions. The major...
Thermal power stations are now considered as the foremost global concern as these are
responsible to produce detrimental effects on the environment. Environmental Impact Assessment
(EIA) is a process of evaluating the likely environmental impact so a proposed project or development,
taking into account inter-related socio-economic, cultural and hum...
Thermal power stations are now considered as the foremost global concern as these are
responsible to produce detrimental effects on the environment. Environmental Impact Assessment
(EIA) is a process of evaluating the likely environmental impact so proposed project or development,
taking into account inter-related socio-economic, cultural and human...
Aims: To delineate the general status of pulse cultivation and enterprise in West Bengal and estimate the nature, level and direction of interactive relationships among the dependent variables, wages and man-days required in pulse crop cultivation, a set of economic and ecological variables were selected for the study. Study Design: The locale was...
Pulses are an important component of the diet in India, mainly for being one of the leading cheap and reliable sources of protein. The emphasis of the Government has, accordingly, been on increasing production of pulses through area expansion and adoption of improved technology. Equally important is the marketing of the pulses, particularly in an o...
Thermal power stations are now considered as the foremost global concern as these are
responsible to produce detrimental effects on the environment. Environmental Impact Assessment
(EIA) is a process of evaluating the likely environmental impact so proposed project or
development, taking into account inter-related socio-economic, cultural and human...
Aims: To study the relationship between the women farmers' engagement in the transformed tea gardens from conventional farming practices with various socio-economic exogenous variables, their socio-economic condition, economic vulnerability, and empowerment. Study Design: The locale was selected by the purposive sampling technique and the responden...
Technology socialization process has operationally been defined as the interactive summation of all possible responses to a technology application process in terms of adoption, rejection, discontinuance and reinvention. Here, this interactive summation is measured against a set of standard practices applied in pulse enterprises and the level of soc...
Aims: To study the relationship of total income was incurred from the rooftop gardening with various socio economic and behavioural aspects and elicit the future opportunity for this innovative method in this global warming situation where the world is facing the increasing crisis of availability of the land resources, support sustainability, conta...
Krishi Vigyan Kendra is now-a-days taking a pivotal role in agriculture and rural
development through transferring new agricultural technologies and enhancing the
productivity of crops through trainings and Front Line Demonstrations (FLDs). An agricultural innovation, adoption and dissemination continuum in all facets of agriculture and allied acti...
Transgenic crops have the potential to solve world's hunger and malnutrition problems,
and to help, protect and preserve the environment with the elevation of production and reducing reliance upon chemical pesticides and herbicides. Apart from these it add benefits such as higher nutritional value, herbicide tolerance, virus resistance, tolerance t...
Energy is the prime mover for any produccon funccon and farming is certainly the no excepon. Indian farming has got a clear lt for chemical input use and farmers are less literate on energy metabolism. The loss of thermal energy from soil regime has been auned to equal damages to soil ferrlity vis‐à‐vis crop produccvity. Our farmers are made to inp...
The farm economy of India is undergoing fast, dramatic and swashbuckling changes, of which some are of metamorphic, others are clichés of rigmaroles. While extension is emerging out as a science of social ecology, the energy extension is must to accentuate the concept and application of a polymorphic-energyextension regime. This would certainly fos...
Energy is the prime mover for any produccon funccon and farming is certainly the no excepon. Indian farming has got a clear lt for chemical input use and farmers are less literate on energy metabolism. The loss of thermal energy from soil regime has been auned to equal damages to soil ferrlity vis‐à‐vis crop produccvity. Our farmers are made to inp...
Farm energy emission, a huge emission from 120 million holdings of Indian Agriculture covering 143 million ha of land, can be held responsible for holding a marginal energy balance between energy trapped in and energy emitted. The 'cooling of farm soil' may be one of the reasons why do Indian farms cannot scale up productivity of crops, comparable...
Social ecology criticizes the human-nature duality and mastery of nature hiding patriarchy while Bauman defines the power of humans as freedom against nature (2006:162). Nature is neither a natural resource deposit nor a pastoral landscape. Nature is not environment as one of ―the others of patriarchy, but it is beyond environment which is a pragma...
The study was undertaken in two districts of West Bengal namely Hooghly and Nadia with 100 beneficiaries as respondents to assess an innovative idea by including energy as the most important input to sustain and support productivity as well as ecological balance. The study depicted that the variables Age and Innovation index have made highest and s...
The transformation of Indian farming stands at a crossroad, a systemic conflict between ecology and economy, and thereafter, amongst ecology, economy and energy. The grim absence of energy auditing in Indian farms has led the entire agro-ecology to a kind of energy entropy and chaotic metabolism. The unabated emission of energy from soil ecology wi...
The sociology of energy consumption and generation, trapping and utilization, has got unique features that again can be configured as the farm metabolism as well as energy ecology in farm management. Most of the Indian farms, as few researches start evincing the fact, are suffering from moderate to high energy imbalances leading to an energy entrop...
The sociology of energy consumption and generation, trapping and utilization, has got unique features that again can be configured as the farm metabolism as well as energy ecology in farm management. Most of the Indian farms, as few researches start evincing the fact, are suffering from moderate to high energy imbalances leading to an energy entrop...
Any kind of enterprise across the world needs a clandestine management intervention. Agribusiness is the simmering character for Indian agriculture for which an interactive design is needed to organize the agribusiness factor production. In most cases farmer makes mistake in allocating resources, rationalizing cost structure and organizing farm ope...
This is a book chapter on Family Farming: The concept and the focus in the transforming global agricultural enterprise which is the 15th chapter on the book on Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Agribusiness Management published by Agrotech Publishing Academy, ISBN - 8183213847, 9788183213844
Change is the essence of evolution. But the change in recent years has been much faster and unforeseen, which is a matter of concern. Climate change and global warming attributed to emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from human activities are a major threat to our survival and well-being. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...