K Rajan

About

Principal Scientist in ICAR. Specialized in Soil Science on soil quality, nutrient dynamics, carbon sequestration and biochar

Employment

• ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Research Centre Principal Scientist

Education

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Publications (30)

• Soil Cracking in Vertisols: Mechanism, Impacts and Management Strategies
  Soil Use and Management 2026 DOI: 10.1111/sum.70311
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• Optimising irrigation and zinc management improves wheat yield, quality and resource use-efficiency in the Indo-Gangetic Plains
  Plant Science Today 2026 DOI: 10.14719/pst.14238
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• Runoff, soil loss and crop responses to Palas (Butea monosperma) leaf mulch in Semi-arid Vegetable Production.
  Journal of Agriculture and Food Research. 2026
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• Potential Grass Species for Soil Conservation and Fodder Production in the Nilgiri Hills of the Western Ghats
  Indian Journal of Soil Conservation 2025 DOI: 10.53550/ijsc.v53.i2.199
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• Unveiling microbial diversity in slightly and moderately magnesium deficient acidic soils
  Scientific Reports 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-87943-3
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• Improving Soil Resilience and Crop Productivity Through Recycling of Spent Mushroom Substrate: A Transition Towards Circular Economy in Hill Agriculture
  Sudheer Kumar Annepu, Raja Pushpanathan, Rajan Karuppasamy +6 more
  CLEAN – Soil, Air, Water 2025 DOI: 10.1002/clen.202400050
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• Impact of rainfall and slope conditions on soil organic carbon dynamics under tea and coffee land cover in Western Ghats Mountain ranges, India.
  Current Science 2024
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• Exploring the impact of formulated bacterial consortia on the growth of Solanum lycopersicum; towards sustainable biofertilizer development
  Naveen Arakkal Thaiparambil, Bharath Raja, Radhakrishnan Vidya +4 more
  Biologia 2024 DOI: 10.1007/s11756-024-01663-z
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• Agroforestry for improving soil physical, chemical and biological properties
  Indian Journal of Agroforestry 2024
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• Characterization of Some Chemical Qualities of Red Ferruginous Soils (Inceptisols, Alfisols and Ultisols) Affected by Water Erosion in Kolar District of Semi-Arid Tropical Karnataka, India.
  Agropedology 2023
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• Unravelling the Release Kinetics of Exchangeable Magnesium in Acid Soil of Nilgiris
  Munmun Dash, Subramanium Thiyageshwari, D. Thirusendura Selvi +7 more
  Sustainability 2023 DOI: 10.3390/su15129848
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• A controlled experiment to verify the effect of magnesium fertilizers on soil pH and available soil nutrients in acid soil of Nilgiris, India
  Journal of Applied and Natural Sciences 2023
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• Design a Soft Computing DECEL Model to Optimize Water Usage in Irrigation Management.
  Statistics and Applications 2022
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• Drivers of soil salinity and their correlation with climate change
  Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2020.10.015
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• Quantifying carbon sequestration potential of soils in an Agro-Eco Region scale.
  Current Science 2021
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• Growth, Yield and Yield Attributes as Influenced by Treated Distillery Effluent Application in Maize (Zea mays L.) under Vertisols
  International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences 2021 DOI: 10.20546/ijcmas.2021.1001.105
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• Automation of USDA Triangle Soil Texture Classification Using Finite State Machine: A Novel Conceptual Modeling Approach
  Statistics and Applications 2021
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• Irrigation Practices and Soft Computing Applications: A Review Statistics and Applications
  Statistics and Applications 2021
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• Soil Moisture based Automatic Irrigation System to Improve Water Productivity
  H K Pradeep, Jasma Balasangameshwara, K. Rajan

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  • Prabhudev Jagadeesh
  Journal of AgriSearch 2020 DOI: 10.21921/jas.v7i04.19393
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• Soil Moisture based Automatic Irrigation System to Improve Water Productivity.
  Journal of Agrisearch 2020
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