Dr. Monisankar Bera
Assistant Professor
Department: Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry
School: School of Agriculture and Allied Science
Highest Educational Qualification: PhD
- Details of professional experience:
| Name of the employer | Post held | Period/Duration | Nature of duties |
| Total | |||
| Visva-Bharati | Skilled personnel
(NIRJAFT, West Bengal.) |
2 year | Performance Analysis of Crop Specific Agro-textiles” |
| Visva-Bharati | Research Assistant
(Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of West Bengal.) |
3 year | Field as well as laboratory experiments, training programme, analysis of data and preparation of technical reports of organic farming etc. |
| Soil Testing Laboratory, (Soil Health Card Scheme.) Visva-Bharati. | Soil Analyst | 2.8 year | Soil, water and plant Analysis, training programme, analysis of data etc. |
| Centurian University of Technology and Management, Paralakhemundi, Odisha. | Assistant Professor
in Soil Sc. &Agril. Chem. |
3.8
year |
Teach the theory and practical courses and guidance the M.Sc. student and other university activity etc. |
- Academic Experience:
- B.Sc. (Ag.) courses i.e. Fundamentals of Soil Science (2+1) of 1st Sem., Manures, Fertilizers & Soil Fertility Management (2+1) of 4th Sem., Problematic Soils and Their Management (1+1) of 5th Sem. and M.Sc. (Agro.) courses i.e. Soil Fertility and Fertilizers use (2+1) theory and practical were delivered by me during previous three academic session.
- Developed the e-material and Lab. Manual of “Manures, Fertilizers & Soil Fertility Management” and Lab. Manual of “Problematic Soils and Their Management”.
(http://courseware.cutm.ac.in/courses/manures-fertilizers-and-soil-fertility-management/)
- Four M.Sc. students were completed their research work under my advisory and two no of M.Sc. students are continuing their research work under my advisory.
- Technical Experiences:
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- Analysis of soil nutrient in respect to major, micro nutrients for recommendation of fertilizer and heavy metals i.e. As, Cr, Hg, Pb etc.
- Analysis Experience on AAS (Flame)with FIAS hydride generation system, HPLC, UV-VIS Spectrophotometer, Flame photometer, BOD shaker, Colony counter, Laminar Air Flow, Autoclave, Centrifuge, Muffle Furnace, pH, EC, N analyzer and so on.
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- Experience on soil microbial analysis viz. microorganisms in respect to its isolation, sub culturing, mass culturing, MBC, bacterial species identification by kit etc.
- Experience on Vermicomposting and organic farming.
- Experience on methods of statistical analysis with SPSS 25.
- Working experience on computer application viz. MS-Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- Having good experienced about purchase and quality of various company’s Lab. equipment’s and chemicals viz. PerkinElmer, Systronics, Tulin, Pelican, Borosil, Merck etc.
- Extension Experiences:
- Experience in Soil Testing training programme in different villages by soil testing kit, for analysis as well as recommendation directly to the farmers soil samples.
- Experience in student exposure visit under different research station and biggest horticulture market in Southern India.
Research Interest: Soil Fertility, Organic Farming
Publication details:
| Annual Member of Indian Society of Soil Science | ID- M/B/548 | |
| Life Member of Indian Society of Costal Agricultural Research | ID- LM/478/21 | |
| International Research Publication | 15 | |
| Book Chapter Publication | 2 | |
| Publication of Extended Summery and Abstracts | 19 | |
| National Seminar Presented | 3 | |
| Webinar Attended | 3 | |
| Certificate Course | 1 | |
| National Workshop Attended | 2 | |
| Faculty Development Programme Attended | 1 | |
| No. of Citation | 45 | |
| h-index | 4 | |
| i10-index | 2 |
Total Experience( Teaching/Research/Extension) in Years: 10
No. of Publication: 15 (International)
No. of Book/ Book Chapter: 2
No. of Abstracts Presented in Seminar/Conference/Symposium: 19
Distinction / Award: NIL
Project: NIL
Additional Qualification: NIL