Dr. Shantanu Bhunia

About

Dr. Shantanu Bhunia is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Agro and Rural Technology, IIT Guwahati. Prior to this, he was a Research Associate at IIT Kharagpur. He graduated PhD in Organic Farming from Jadavpur University and holds an MSc degree in Botany. Dr. Bhunia is an expert in Sustainable Agriculture, Rural Development, and Innovative Technologies. Apart from his publications, he holds a patent granted by the Government of India. Additionally, he has served as Scientist at SAFE (ISO 14001:2015 CSO) on a UNDP project and has received recognitions from ICSSR (GoI), APN (Japan), and the British Council.

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Institute Post Doctoral Fellow
  2024 - Present
• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur DST GoI Research Associate
  2023 - 2024

Education

• Jadavpur University PhD
  2018 - 2023
• Vidyasagar University MSc
  2015 - 2017
• Vidyasagar University BSc
  2012 - 2015

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (13)

• Carbon and nitrogen dynamics in hilly soils as affected by land use change and soil management practices
  Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s43538-026-00811-0
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• Understanding factors influencing vegetable farmers’ choice of marketing channels in India
  Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies 2025 DOI: 10.1108/jadee-09-2024-0283
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• Producer organizations in the last 25 years: a bibliometric analysis and meta-review of the literature
  Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 2025 DOI: 10.1057/s41599-025-04526-3
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• Successive cultivation of cabbage and spinach by land application of recycled slaughterhouse waste: Benefit to farmers and agro-ecosystem health
  Environmental Technology & Innovation 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.eti.2022.102967
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• Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon sequestration by intertidal phototrophic biofilms cultivated in hydrophobic and hydrophilic biofilm-promoting culture vessels
  Journal of Hazardous Materials 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.129318
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• Waste management of rural slaughterhouses in developing countries
  Advanced Organic Waste Management: Sustainable Practices and Approaches 2022 DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-323-85792-5.00019-8
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• Development of a Novel Helical-Ribbon Mixer Dryer for Conversion of Rural Slaughterhouse Wastes to an Organic Fertilizer and Implications in the Rural Circular Economy
  Sustainability 2021 DOI: 10.3390/su13169455
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• An Apparatus for Recycling Slaughterhouse Waste and Method thereof
  2021
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• Agronomic Efficiency of Animal-Derived Organic Fertilizers and Their Effects on Biology and Fertility of Soil: A Review
  Agronomy 2021 DOI: 10.3390/agronomy11050823
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• Application of recycled slaughterhouse wastes as an organic fertilizer for successive cultivations of bell pepper and amaranth
  Scientia Horticulturae 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2021.109927
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