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Souvik Ghosh

Visva-Bharati, Indian Council of Agricultural Research- Indian Institute of Water Management, Indian Agricultural Research Institute

ORCID iD 0000-0002-2161-2984
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Dr. Souvik Ghosh is presently Professor (Agricultural Extension) at Department of Agricultural Extension, Visva-Bharati University, West Bengal, where he joined on June 2013 and also served as Head of the Department from November 2016 to October 2019. He was positioned as Visiting Scientist at College of Agriculture and Biological Sciences, South Dakota State University, USA during 2016. Earlier he worked as Scientist and Senior Scientist at ICAR-Indian Institute of Water Management, Bhubaneswar during 2000-09 and 2009-13, respectively. He graduated as Gold Medalist in B.Sc. (Agril.) Hons. from Visva-Bharati University in the year 1995 and passed M.Sc. (Dairying) in Dairy Extension Education with Director’s Gold Medal at National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal in 1997. After completion of Ph.D. (Agricultural Extension) from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi with distinction of Significant Post-Graduate Research in 2000, Dr. Ghosh joined Agricultural Research Service of ICAR on 10th July 2000. Dr. Ghosh has completed eight projects as PI and 22 projects as Co-PI. He has guided six Ph.D. Thesis and 15 M.Sc. Thesis works. A total of 279 publications of Dr. Ghosh includes 114 research papers (30 papers in the journals with NAAS score> 6.0) and 46 technical/ popular article in national and international journals and nine books. For his book on “वैश्वीकरण और भारतीय खाद्य सुरक्षा“- Globalisation and Indian Food Security (ISBN-978-81-910947-0-1), Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha Puraskar (First Prize) of Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India conferred by His Excellency President of India at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi on 14th September 2012. His outstanding work done in the field of Agricultural Extension research has brought many laurels including Lal Bahadur Shastri Outstanding Scientist Award 2011 of ICAR, ICAR Outstanding Team Research Award 2006, BKJF-INCSW Sookshma Sinchai Puraskar 2018 of INCSW, Central Water Commission, Govt. of India, Prof. Y.P. Singh Memorial Award 2018 of Indian Society of Extension Education (ISEE), Dr. K.N. Singh Memorial Award 2017 of ISEE, Best Scientist Award of ICAR-Indian Institute of Water Management 2008, Institution Award 2006 of Institution of Engineers (India)- Orissa State Centre, ISEE Young Scientist Award 2005, etc. He is Fellow of ISEE, IARI, New Delhi and Society for Community Mobilization for Sustainable Development, IARI, New Delhi. Notable contributions of Dr. Ghosh include development of methodologies for integrated assessment of recommended agricultural water management technologies from multi-layer multi stakeholders’ perspectives, formulation of impact assessment framework for participatory irrigation management (PIM) reforms, evaluation of an irrigation system from the farmers’ perspectives following fuzzy logic, construction of water user group dynamics index, assessment of irrigation-agriculture-livelihood-poverty links in eastern Indian states, mapping of vulnerability on the basis of livelihood sensitivity, resilience and adaptation of farm households to climate change through climate smart agriculture, studies on various issues of agricultural extension management, communication, diversified farming and rural livelihoods. He coordinated many National level trainers’ trainings sponsored by Ministry of Water Resources and Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India for states’ line departments, irrigation departments, NGOs officials of different states as well as 10 farmers’ trainings each of seven days duration on scaling-up of water productivity at different locations in which more than thousand farmers were trained. He delivered more than hundred invited lectures in farmers’ and trainers’ training programmes. His presence as invited/guest speakers in different forums and events organized by ICAR institutes, Central and State Agricultural Universities, Central and State Government organizations as well as International organizations shows his recognition as an expert in the discipline of Agricultural Extension. He has also been involved in many other assignments like external expert in selection committees, editors in editorial committees of professional society’s journals, reviewer in the national and international journals, etc. He has made significant contributions for advancing the cause of Agricultural Extension research and education.

Employment

  • Visva-Bharati Professor
    2013 - Present
  • Indian Council of Agricultural Research- Indian Institute of Water Management ARS - Scientist (2000-2009) and Senior Scientist (2009-2013)
    2000 - 2013

Education

  • Indian Agricultural Research Institute Ph.D
    1997 - 2000

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Publications (157)