Dr. PR Pradhan
Assistant Professor
Qualification: BSc (Agriculture), MSc (ICAR JRF) and PhD (IARI Meritorious & DST Inspire Fellowships) in Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry
College/University: Orissa University of Agriculture & Technology, Bhubaneswar, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi

Introduction: Pradhan’s expertise is in soil science, climate change mitigation and sustainable agriculture. He has more than 8 years combined post-doctoral experience in research, short-term teaching to students, imparting training to farmers and technicians on soil-plant-environment system as well as provision of consultancy on sustainable agriculture. He is also having experience of working with different analytical instruments like spectrophotometer, autoanalyser, CHNS elemental analyser, atomic absorption spectrometer, mass spectrometer and gas chromatograph, and statistical softwares like MSTAT-C, SPSS and SAS. Pradhan has completed his MSc (ICAR JRF) and PhD (IARI Meritorious & DST Inspire Fellowships) in Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry from Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi and BSc (Agriculture) from Orissa University of Agriculture & Technology, Bhubaneswar. He has post-doctoral work experience with International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad and Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS), Tsukuba Pradhan has also completed several online as well as offline certificate courses on Remote Sensing, Climate Smart Agriculture, Leadership and Management, Sustainable Agriculture, Climate Change, Research Ethics, Digital Agriculture, Digital Skills, Diversity and Inclusion, Global Citizenship and Harassment Prevention conducted by IIRS-Dehradun, FutureLearn, FAO, JSPS, edX and Last Mile Learning. He has received training on DSSAT crop modelling by researchers from Washington State University, University of Florida, and ICRISAT, India. He has acquired expertise on greenhouse gas quantification from crop production systems using automated sampling system by trainers from Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
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