Dr. Kamal Prasad Mohapatra

Dr. Kamal Prasad Mohapatra
Principal Scientist

Division/RS/Unit

Division of Germplasm Evaluation

Contact

Off.-011-25802844
Email- k.mohapatra(AT)icar.gov.in, kpmbbsr(AT)gmail.com

Qualification

Degree

Discipline

Year

M.Sc. (Forestry).

Forestry

1996

Ph.D. (Forestry)

Forestry

2003

SPECIALIZATION
Agroforestry

Salient Achievements

  • Developed a technology for digital monitoring system for tree germplasm in field genebanks.
  • Characterized Mucuna pruriens germplasm of North East India and identified lines rich in L-DOPA
  • Developed technology packages for improvement of the productivity and sustainability shifting cultivation (Jhum) areas of Meghalaya
  • Developed fruit tree-based agroforestry systems for the NE India.
  • Optimized location specific farming system models for the NE region.
  • Developed soil carbon stock map of NE India covering different landuses.

Awards/Honours

  • Fellow National Academy of Biological Sciences-2020
  • Fellow Indian Society of Hill Farming- 2017
  • IASWC Gold Medal -2018 by Indian Society of Soil and Water Conservationists, IISWC, Dehradun

Recent Publications Research Papers

  • Yadav G.S., Kandpal B.K., Anup Das, Babu S, K.P. Mohapatra, A. Gangarani Devi, H. Lembisana Devi, Puran Chandra, Raghavendra Singh, K. K. Barman. 2021. Impact of 28-year-old agroforestry systems on soil carbon dynamics in Eastern Himalayas.  Journal of Environmental Management. doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.111978
  • Babu S, Anup Das, Raghavendra Singh, K. P. Mohapatra, S Kumar,S S Rathore, S K. Yadav, Poonam Yadav, M. A. Ansari, A. S. Panwar, Owais Ali Wani, Mahak Singh, N. Ravishankar, Jayanta Layek, Puran Chandra and V K. Singh. 2023. Designing an energy efficient, economically feasible, and environmentally robust integrated farming system model for sustainable food production in the Indian Himalayas. Sustainable Food Technology, 1, 126–142. DOI: 10.1039/d2fb00016d
  • Mohapatra KP, Puran Chandra, S.P. Ahlawat, Ashok Kumar, Veena Gupta, Rashmi Yadav, SS Awasthi, Sunil Archak, Devashree Nayak, SK Dhyani, Javed Rizvi and Kuldeep Singh. 2021. Highway Genebank: An Ideation for Plant Genetic Resources Conservation on the Highway Margins. Indian J. Plant Genet. Resour. 34(1): 13–24
  • Rajarajan K, Bharati A, Anuragi H, Handa AK, Gaikwad K, Singh NK, Mohapatra KP, Chandra P, Chavan SB, Chand L, Gupta V, Dhillon RS, Sirohi C, Shirin F, Saravanan S, Ravishankar KV, Sankaran M, Mehta H, Venkatesh G, Verma A, Kalia RK, Dasgupta MG, Yasodha R, Ginwal HS, Deshmukh R, Malik SK, Bhaskar S, Nadaf A, Nayak D, Dhyani SK, Hendre PS, Rizvi J. 2020. Status of perennial tree germplasm resources in India and their utilization in the context of global genome sequencing efforts. Working Paper number 311. World Agroforestry, Nairobi, Kenya. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5716/WP2020050.PDF
  • Krishnappa Rangappa, Anup Das, Jayanta Layek, Savita Basavaraj, Supriya Debnath, Ingudam Bhupenchandra, Ayam Gangarani Devi, K P Mohapatra, B U Choudhury, V K Mishra. 2024. Conservation tillage and residue management practices in rice improves stress tolerance of succeeding vegetable pea by regulating physiological traits in Eastern Himalayas. Scientia Horticulturae. doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2024.112842

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