Name | Goutam Mondal |
Designation | Associate Professor (Plant Pathology) |
Complete postal Address with city code | AICRP on MAP & Betelvine, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Kalyani (Nadia) - 741235, West Bengal |
Email IDs | gmbckv@gmail.com |
Mobile No. | 9433391247 |
Goutam Mondal,
born on 09th February, 1969, working at present as Associate Professor, Bidhan
Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, West Bengal, India being posted at All India
Coordinated Research Project on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants & Betelvine
since, 2014. He obtained his BSc (Ag) Hons degree from Bidhan Chandra Krishi
Viswavidyalaya (BCKV) in 1991 and both MSc degree in Mycology and Plant Pathology
and PhD degree in Plant Pathology from Indian Agricultural Research Institute
(IARI) in 1994 and 1998 respectively. He has qualified NET conducted by ICAR
(1994 & 1995) and by CSIR-UGC (1994) and selected two times for Agriculture
Research Scientist (ARS) in ARS’ 94 and ARS’ 95 conducted by ASRB, ICAR, India.
He received IARI-JRF for Master degree in 1992-94 and IARI-SRF for Doctoral
degree in 1994-98. Before joining in BCKV, he served in West Bengal Government
Agricultural Research Service as Assistant Plant Pathologist (1998-2002) and in
Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya (UBKV) as Assistant Professor, Associate
Professor and Professor (2002-2014), Additional Director of Research, Regional
Research Station, Old Alluvial Zone, UBKV (2009- 2014), Scientist In-Charge for
South Dinajpur District to the programme “Bringing Green Revolution to Eastern
India” (2011-14), Member of Academic Council, UBKV (2011-12), Nodal Officer of
Agro-Met Field Unit, IMD, Majhian, DD, WB (2012-2014), Member of the Advisory
Committee of AMFU UBKV (2011-2012) & BCKV (since 2017) etc. He has extended
his expertise through different entrepreneurs’ development and Farmers’
training programme by organising and also as a resource person, where more than
5000 farmers have benefited till now. He was involved in formation and
strengthening of three Farmers’ Producer Organisations (FPOs), Farmers’
Federation and Farmers’ Club for cultivation and promotion of “Bengal Scented
Rice” at North Dinajpur, West Bengal. He is life member of seven scientific
societies. He has mentored three PhD and ten MSc students. He has served as
Principal Investigators of several external funded projects like, NMPB, RKVYs
etc. As a Scientist, he contributed to get two GI certificates of for
indigenous scented rice namely, Gobindo bhog and Tulaipanji, the recommendation
from Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce for export in their 98th
report on “Export of Food GrainsPremium Non-Basmati Rice & Wheat (August,
2011 / Sravana, 1933 (saka), Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi) and also in
development of market chain and market promotion for “Bengal Scented Rice”.
Under his super vision, Tulaipanji rice was sent to the London Olympic-2012
from the grower/ Samity/Farmers’ Federation for popularization in the International
Market. As a team member, he has developed two bioformulations, Kalisena SL and
SD which has been sold to a private company for commercialization. He has
isolated and characterised two novel secondary metabolites related to plant
growth promotion from biocontrol agent and showed the necrotrophic interaction
of biocontrol agent-pathogen through SEM and fluorescence microscopy. His
publications include a patent, peer reviewed full paper: 21, books: 7, books
chapter: 5 and proceedings: 10. He has attended symposium/ workshop more than
30 nos. of National and International level. His field of specialization is
biological control of plant pathogen, secondary metabolites of beneficial
microorganisms, systematic mycology, molecular characterization of plant
pathogens etc.