Pandian Krishnan

Bay of Bengal Programme Inter-Governmental Organisation (BOBP-IGO)

The policy paper deals with organized sheet and goat meat sector in India towards food security, nutrition and SDGs.

In the current study we have undertaken the scientometric analysis to map research publications from 19 different animal science research institutions under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), for a period of two decades (1998 to 2020), using the Web of Science (WoS) platform of Clarivate Analytics. We analyzed different scientometr...

CRISPR is important because it is a component of the bacterial immune system that can cleave DNA and once the molecular mechanism behind its DNA-cleaving ability was discovered, it quickly evolved into a genome-editing tool and adopted widely. Web of Science, a platform for scientific and scholarly research based on citation index, showed an increa...

Reservoirs are major inland water resources benefitting society through multiple ecosystem services, including fish production. However, the scope of the reservoirs in India is yet to be explored for its full fisheries potential and the scientific/management personnel are engaged in bridging the yield gap. This paper reviews the research progress m...

The study analysed the temporal changes in the perceptions of students of agricultural higher education due to disruption of the COVID 19 pandemic and recommends strategies to deal with it. An online survey was conducted involving students of agricultural higher education at two intervals to capture their perceptions on the academic, physical, and...

Reservoirs have tremendous fisheries potential amongst the inland water resources and aptly referred as 'sleeping giants', as the fish yield potential of these resources are yet to be tapped. Existing gaps in the availability of absolute information and data on the inland water resources hinder the applicability and implementation of various fisher...

The riverine ecosystem provides multiple benefits to human community and contributes to the sustainable development of the ecoregion. The growing dependency on these ecosystems has largely contributed to aggravating the ecological risks, habitat degradation, and loss of ecosystem services. The present study evaluates the ecological risk emanating f...

A meta-analysis of research on fish stock identification in India was performed to examine the trends and patterns of work conducted in fish-stock identification between 2000 and 2021. The publication data extracted from the Web of Science database with different keywords resulted in 214 research articles dealing with fish-stock identification. The...

Inland fisheries resources are vital for the human community and contribute to the development of a particular region. However, inland water bodies are highly dynamic, surrounded by terrestrial ecosystems, and face multiple threats from various anthropogenic stressors. Hence, the conservation and management of aquatic resources are becoming formida...

Green Campus-NAARM covers the various initiatives of Green Energy Utilization, Roof Water Harvesting, Multiple Uses of Harvested Water, Green Cover, Agro-Forestry, Utilization of Crop Residue as Mulch-Cum-Manuring, Solar Energy Systems, Biodiversity Conservation, Waste disposal Systems, Ecosystem Sustainability, Soil Erosion Reduction Activities.

Rivers are dynamic ecosystems with diverse habitats that require ample connectivity to ensure the flow of ecosystem services, thus empowering the sustainable development of an entire basin. Geo-spatial tools offer powerful prospects for monitoring of aquatic ecosystems. The usefulness of Sentinel-2 datasets to assess river connectivity has been exp...

The Chapter deals with research management leadership in ICAR which contributed to great sucess of food security and sustainability

Strategies of attracting best talent in Agriculture Education, Research, Extention and allied fields are summarized.

Herbicides are continuing to be an integral part of weed control in global agriculture and hence the research related to herbicides have paramount importance. Therefore, the present study attempts a scientometric analysis of global herbicide research undertaken during the last decade (2011 to 2020). For this, we collected the bibliometric data on p...

The conservation and management of inland fish and freshwater ecosystems immensely contribute to global sustainable development. The existing ‘Protected Area’ (PA) network does not represent freshwater resources well and seldom considers its fish communities while designating PAs. A study was undertaken to quantitatively assess the role played by t...

Seasonal occurrence of baleen whales along Odisha coast is investigated based on critical evaluation of the stranding data collected from beach surveys, citizen reports and unpublished records during2016- 2020. The study reveals that there have been 18 instances of whale stranding in Odisha of which baleen whales accounted for 12 (66.6%) and Bryde’...

The eight National Fisheries Research Institutes under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) play a significant role in driving fisheries development in the country by advancing knowledge through basic and applied research; technology development and extension/outreach. Collaboration and networking among researchers and institutes are...

Soil is a living and dynamic body, which is prone to degradation under conventional agricultural practices. Healthy soil is one of the most important pillars of sustainability as it delivers several ecosystem services along with its control on microbial activity, nutrient recycling, and decomposition. Nature-based solutions can play an important ro...

Arabidopsis thaliana, a model plant, is intensively researched because of the intrinsic advantages associated with its life cycle, genetics, and other characteristics. In the present study, we analysed the publication data of research work done on A. thaliana during 2001-2020, a period when the whole genome sequence of the plant was available to th...

Sustainable development warrants cognizance of the limits of the ecosystem in terms of carrying capacity and technological externalities and, therefore, the limited extent of substitutability of natural capital with physical capital. The notion of sustainability assumes maximization and/or maintenance of current production without increasing the pe...

Soil is a living and dynamic body, which is prone to degradation under conventional agricultural practices. Healthy soil is one of the most important pillars of sustainability as it delivers several ecosystem services along with its control on microbial activity, nutrient recycling, and decomposition. Nature-based solutions can play an important ro...

Agricultural research is the driver to pull the economy of any country out of hunger and poverty and leads to the path of socio-economic equity and prosperity. However, research focus and components are varied across the globe. The major underlying reason for this is region-specific research demands based on food requirement and its delivery system...

Coral reefs of Lakshadweep perform a range of vital ecosystem functions and sustain the livelihoods of island communities. Coral reefs provide ecosystem services that are vital to human societies and industries through fisheries, coastal protection and tourism. The present study was undertaken during September and October 2015 to assess the status...

The increasing threat to sustainable agriculture is a major concern of planners worldwide. Human population growth together with increasing food requirements and competition for land use is leading to land scarcity for agricultural purposes. Farm size influences the extent of the adoption of mechanization and modern methods of farm management pract...

The coastal communities are the most vulnerable to climate vagaries, which affect their habitat and livelihood alike. Vulnerability assessments undertaken using quantitative or qualitative methods at macro- or micro-level need to capture the location and context so as to be able to use them towards improving mitigation and resilience strategies at...

Climate Change and Indian Agriculture (Hindi Book) Challenges and Opportunities for Adaptation

Food legumes, especially pulses, have a significant role in ensuring food and nutritional security of human and animal population. India is the largest producer of pulses in the world, accounting for 28% of the global pulses production. The current study evaluates the trends in research on pulses in India. The research productivity data for the per...

Biodiversity Laws NAARM Training

Advances in science have led to understanding nature and its vital ecosystems. Simultaneously, the technological advances have opened new vistas for exploring, identifying, and characterizing biological materials from biological resources for nutrition, therapeutics, and other commercial products. However, all the nations have not advanced equally...

The extent of surface-water spread influences the hydrogeology and ecology of waterbodies. Remote sensing technology provides spatial and temporal datasets which aid in mapping the dynamics of surface waterbodies at the regional and global scale. In the present study, temporal changes in the surface area of waterbodies in Telangana, India, were mon...

The growth trajectories of the fishes during their early developmental phase are not adequately understood due to the continuous changes in their morphology, behaviour, and feeding habits. Understanding these interactions in relation to the habits, habitat, rate of growth, rate of development, and duration of different stages of growth are useful i...

ICAR-NAARM Training and Capacity Building Programmes (2021)(April-July)

Kappaphycus alvarezii, a red seaweed cultured in tropical waters for extraction of carrageenan, is widely considered a bioinvader of coral reefs. In India, this seaweed is cultivated in Palk Bay, South India by the coastal community amidst the concern of its invasion in the sub-tidal reef regions of adjoining Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park (Go...

Globally, marine fisheries sector provides livelihood, food security and employment to the fishers engaged in subsistence, artisanal and industrial fishing activities. The dependency on marine fish supplies keeps rising globally leading to intense competition, fishery conflicts and unsustainable fishing practices which threatens the sustainability...

Why and how do some research institutions perform extraordinarily better and produce path-breaking innovations while others do not? Are there any key drivers or characteristics that clearly mark out these exemplary centres of excellence? Why does research productivity differ significantly across institutions? What are the bottlenecks responsible fo...

The national fisheries research in India is spearheaded by domain-specific fisheries research institutions under the aegis of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi. The current study was undertaken to assess the temporal trends in research publications during the period 2009-2018, from eight fisheries research institutes und...

Identification of a suitable site is a crucial step for the sustainability of an aquaculture venture. This study shows a framework for identifying areas suitable for freshwater and brackishwater aquaculture in India while integrating the governing regulations. Land use and land cover (LULC) maps at 1:10,000 scale derived from high-resolution imager...

Science-led Agricultural Development: Gandhian Thoughts

Gandhiji considered agriculture as the main stay for the upliftment of the entire nation. He also had the firm belief that “the future of India lies in its villages”. To Gandhiji, the practice of agriculture signified a promise of limitless reach. Gandhiji desired that the workers in village should feel confident of the science inherent to their wo...

Climate change impact on horticulture sector and adaptation strategies

Providing personalized learning path according to the individual learning characteristics poses great challenge. In the personalized learning environment, the content and the sequence of contents into path vary with individuals depending on their needs. Researchers have been proposing several variations on swarm intelligence and evolutionary algori...

Mesoscale eddies are important ocean phenomena that enhance biological productivity by mixing of water column and influence fishery catches, especially in stratified seas such as Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea. The current study was conducted around the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (ANI), India located in the Eastern Indian Ocean. The study tested th...

Climate change, whether driven by natural or human forcing, can lead to changes in the likelihood of the occurrence or strength of extreme weather and climate events or both. In the recent past, the increased occurrence of extreme climatic events has caused enormous damage to

Fisheries and tourism are two important sectors that provide livelihood and employment in the tropical Islands. Andaman and Nicobar group of Islands is a biodiversity hotspot in the Bay of Bengal inhabited by settler population along with indigenous tribal communities. The Nicobar tribal community is one among occupying the Nicobar group of Islands...

The quality of any educational program is largely determined by the competence and performance of its teachers. The definition of quality teaching is related to teacher's knowledge, values, aptitude and attitude.Teaching competences focused on the role of the teacher in action in the classroom, therefore directly linked with the craft of teaching....

India is all set to reach its target of Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) in higher education (32%) by 2022 (against the global average of 36.7%), suggesting Higher Education (HE) in India as a mass system, where HE is seen as a right for those with certain formal qualifications. Expanding GER through creating additional brick and mortar structures with...

India is all set to reach its target of Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) in higher education (32%) by 2022 (against the global average of 36.7%), suggesting Higher Education (HE) in India as a mass system, where HE is seen as a right for those with certain formal qualifications. Expanding GER through creating additional brick and mortar structures with...

Salt marshes are one among the most productive coastal ecosystems, mostly confined to low-energy coasts of temperate and high latitude. Tropical and sub-tropical salt marshes are generally less studied. The present study attempts to assess the status of salt marsh vegetation along the Indian coast regarding its species composition, density and zona...

Education is the backbone for the growth and development of a nation. As India is an agrarian dominated economy, agricultural education plays an important role in providing human resources for improving agricultural productivity and natural resource management in a sustainable manner. The competence and performance of teachers are the key factors d...

Recent studies have shown that coastal and shelf cephalopod populations have increased globally over the last six decades. Although cephalopod landings are dominated by the squid fishery, which represents nearly 80% of the worldwide cephalopod catches, octopuses and cuttlefishes represent �10% each. Total reported global production of octopuses ove...

The Bivalvia family Placunidae Rafinesque, 1815 in India is reviewed in this paper based on previous literature and records. Additionally, the species Placuna quadrangula is described from the Indian sub-continent. Being an economically important family in this geographic region, this paper can be regarded as a baseline for further ecological, mana...

Recent studies have shown that coastal and shelf cephalopod populations have increased globally over the last six decades. Although cephalopod landings are dominated by the squid fishery, which represents nearly 80% of the worldwide cephalopod catches, octopuses and cuttlefishes represent ∼10% each. Total reported global production of octopuses ove...

Recent studies have shown that coastal and shelf cephalopod populations have increased globally over the last six decades. Although cephalopod landings are dominated by the squid fishery, which represents nearly 80% of the worldwide cephalopod catches, octopuses and cuttlefishes represent ∼10% each. Total reported global production of octopuses ove...

Saltmarshes are an important marginal coastal ecosystem influenced by tidal movement and are created by the interaction of the halophytic vegetation and sediment trapped from inundating water. This study gives the saltmarsh distribution and diversity along a type of poorly studied saltmarsh on the southeast coast of India. Saltmarsh locations were...

White spot syndrome virus (WSSV) is one of the most devastating pathogens, which inflicted huge losses to the shrimp farming sector in India and the world. The current study maps the WSSV research output during 1998–2017 using Web of Science (WoS) database. A total of 1786 tags were subjected to the present analysis which covers various parameters...

Planning aquaculture and fisheries activities in a reservoir requires knowledge of dynamics of water spread. We studied water spread dynamics of three reservoirs in the Godavari river basin, India using multi-temporal satellite imagery for the period 1990–2018 and developed a framework for mapping the spatial extent of water spread area (WSA) havin...

Planning aquaculture and fisheries activities in a reservoir requires knowledge of dynamics of water spread. We studied water spread dynamics of three reservoirs in the Godavari river basin, India using multi-temporal satellite imagery for the period 1990–2018 and developed a framework for mapping the spatial extent of water spread area (WSA) havin...

Generally speaking, various seaweed resources, if properly managed, can be a renewable resource, with the ability to be sustainably, commercially exploited on a global basis, according to the species available, for a variety of products of industrial importance. In recent times, agar, derived from certain red seaweeds, is the only phycocolloid to h...

The present report describes the first record of two brachyuran crabs, Drachiella morum Alcock, 1896 and Quadrella maculosa Alcock, 1898 along the coast of Tamil Nadu, India. The morphometric characters of the examined specimens are described and discussed herein. The occurrence of these rare crabs reveals their extended distribution in the Indian...

In e-learning, learning object sequencing is a challenging task. It is difficult to sequence learning objects manually due to their abundant availability and the numerous combinations possible. An adaptive e-learning system that offers a personalized learning path would enhance the academic performance of learners. The main challenge in providing a...