General Informations

  • Join Date: 26/10/1988
  • College: College of Agriculture
  • Department: Agronomy
  • Office Email: nikunja.deka[at]aau.ac.in

Education Details

 
 
 
 
 
1986
B Sc. (Agri)

AAU

 
 
 
 
 
1988
M Sc. (Agri)

AAU

 
 
 
 
 
1998
Ph D (Agri) in Agronomy

AAU

Employment History

 
 
 
 
 
01-07-2006 - Till date
professor

AAU

 
 
 
 
 
29-07-1997 - 30-06-2006
Associate professor / Senior scientist

AAU

 
 
 
 
 
26-10-1988 - 28-07-1997
Junior scientist

AAU

Achievements
  • 1. Empaneled and serving as an Advisor to the Union Public Service Commission, Govt. of India, New Delhi
  • 2. Served as a Visiting Fellow for teaching in M.SC and Ph. D. programme in the prestigious Central University, the North Eastern Hill University, Meghalaya
  • 3. Served as a Member (Special invitee) of Research Advisory Committee, CMER&TI, National Silk Board, Ministry of textile, GOI
  • 4. Awarded Appreciation Certificate from the NAIP, ICAR for the coveted project on "Livelihood promotion through integrated farming system in Assam," in the 21st Regional Committee meeting of ICAR.
  • 5. Developed and innovated several new technologies specially in, Potato crop, True Potato Seed; Groundnut and weed science etc.
  • 6. Served as one of the Members of the Review Team on “Functional Study of Human resource requirement of AAU” Chaired by Prof. B Senapati, Former Vice Chancellor, OUAT
  • 7. Developed the course curriculum for the Ph. D. programme in the subject ‘Rural Development and Agricultural Production’, North Eastern Hill University, Meghalaya
  • 8. Served as a Member of the Team assigned to review the AAU Act, 1969 Chaired by Sjt. C Chaliha, hon’le Member of the Board of Management, AAU.
  • 9. Served as External Examiner for the Central Universities, NEHU; CAU, Imphal and Nagaland University.
  • 10. Delivered key note address as a Key speaker on “Creation of crop-wise knowledge model” for “Academic workshop” in AAU on 2.7.10 at AAU, Jorhat.
  • 11. Served as an External examiner of APSC, Guwahati
  • 12. Served as a Convener, Editorial Board, National Seminar on Alien Invasive Weeds in India, April 27-29, 2003
  • 13. Served as a Referee for the Official research publication 'Journal of Maharashtra Agricultural Univer
  • 14. Empaneled and served as an external examiner for the Ph. D programme of prestigious central University, the BHU, Benaras.
  • 15. Served a member of the FUNCTIONAL STUDY COMMITTEE ON MAN POWER REQUIREMENTS OF AAU, constituted by the Honourable Board of Management, AAU.
Membership
  • Indian Potato Association
    Life Member
  • Indian society of weed science
    Life Member
Projects
  • World bank-GOI sponsored project on "NAIP project on "Livelihood promotion through integrated farming system in Assam"", project cost Rs.11.16 Crore implemented in 2008.
  • UGC sponsored project on "A study of the problems associated with wastage and stagnation among tea garden labor children in the elementary stage in Jorhat", project cost Rs.0.7 Lakh implemented in 2012.
  • ICAR sponsored project on "Competitive grant Ad-hoc project funded by the ICAR titled “Production technologies of rabi / summer groundnut under high rainfall areas (Sanction no. F. No. (23)/92-AFC dtd. 24.5.95). implemented the project as Co-PI during 1.1.96 to 31.3.99", project cost Rs.2 Lakh implemented in 1996.