General Informations

  • Join Date: 02/08/2019
  • College: Directorate of Research(Agri)
  • Department: AAU-Assam Rice Research Institute, Titabar
  • Office Email: parinda.barua[at]aau.ac.in

Education Details

 
 
 
 
 
2014
B.Sc. (Agri)

Assam Agricultural University

 
 
 
 
 
2017
M.Sc. (Agri)

Assam Agricultural University (Masters research: Agricultural University of Athens)

 
 
 
 
 
2022
Ph.D (Agri)

Assam Agricultural University

 
 
 
 
 
2017
Other Qualifications

Agricultural University of Athens and University of Thessaly, Greece

 
 
 
 
 
2019
Other Qualifications

FERA Science Ltd., UK

Employment History

 
 
 
 
 
02-08-2019 - Till date
Scientist

Assam Agricultural University

Achievements
  • Recipient of the Erasmus Mundus BRAVE fellowship to pursue the masters research at Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), Athens, Greece and University of Thessaly, Greece from 2015-2017.
  • Awarded the “Best Master Thesis award-2019” by the Agricultural Technology Development Society (ATDS) in the 3rd International Conference entitled “Global Initiatives in Agricultural and Applied Sciences for Eco Friendly Environment (GIASE-2019)”, held at Kathmandu, Nepal from 16-18 June, 2019.
  • Recipient of a short-term training voucher under CONNECTED VIRUS NETWORK to perform a training of a period of 22 days at FERA Science, UK held from 4th October to 25th October, 2019.
  • Recipient of 2nd best oral presentation on "Rapid detection of Banana Bunchy Top Virus (BBTV) by loop mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) in North-East India" in Indian Phytopathological Society North Eastern Zonal Symposium and National Conference on 'Re-framing futuristic plant health safeguards' held at Dept. of Plant Pathology, Assam Agricultural University from 24th-25th November, 2022
Membership
  • Indian Phytopathological Society (IPS)
    Life Member
  • Indian Virological Society (IVS)
    Life Member
  • Agricultural Technology Development Society (ATDS)
    Life Member
  • CONNECTED Virus Network
    Life Member
  • Society of Plant Protection Sciences (SPSS)
    Life Member
  • Academy for advancement of agricultural sciences
    Life Member
Projects
  • AAU, Jorhat sponsored project on "Amar Gaon Amar Gaurav", project cost Rs.200000 Lakh implemented in 2024.
  • AAU, Jorhat sponsored project on "Production of quality seeds of some popular AAU developed varieties of Rice and their marketing in PPP mode", project cost Rs.3000000 Lakh implemented in 2023.
  • NABARD sponsored project on "Fostering Na-Kuhipaat into a self sustainable FPC through commercialisation of purple rice variety Labanya in Titabor block of Jorhat district of Assam", project cost Rs.1175112 Lakh implemented in 2024.
  • NABARD sponsored project on "Formation of Farmer Producer Organizations under Baghchung block under CBBO, AAU, Jorhat", project cost Rs.500000 Lakh implemented in 2022.
  • DBT Govt. of India sponsored project on "DBT-NECAB Programme on Genetic Improvement of Rice", project cost Rs.180 Lakh implemented in 2023.
  • DBT-GoI sponsored project on "Development of high yielding, non-lodging and biotic resistant varieties of Black scented rice of Manipur and Joha rice of Assam through Biotechnological intervention", project cost Rs.119.91280 Lakh implemented in 2023.
  • DBT sponsored project on "Generating high-depth genomics information for the Himalaya rice cultivars for improving nutritional quality and stress tolerance", project cost Rs.79 Lakh implemented in 2022.
  • DBT, Govt. of India sponsored project on "Generating high depth genomic information for the Himalaya rice cultivars for improving nutritional quality and stress tolerance", project cost Rs.62.03 Lakh implemented in 2022.
  • SERB, Govt of India sponsored project on "Genome wide association studies for agronomic and nutritional traits in rice using Multiparent Advance Generation Intercross (MAGIC) population developed from Assam rice", implemented in 2021.
  • ICAR-IASRI, Govt. of Inida sponsored project on "Image capturing of pests/diseases in crop/livestock for purpose of developing artificial intelligence (AI) based mobile app under NAHEP Component 2A", implemented in 2020.
  • NIF, Govt. of India sponsored project on "Evaluation and Assessment of Farmers' Paddy Varieties URGA-2019 and URGA-2020", project cost Rs.6.60 Lakh implemented in 2024.
  • DBT sponsored project on "IRRI Collaborative project Development of superior haplotype based near isogenic lines (Haplo-NILs) for enhanced genetic gain in rice", project cost Rs.156.9892 Lakh implemented in 2020.
  • DBT, India sponsored project on "Mainstreaming rice landraces diversity in varietal development through genomic prediction: A model for large scale utilization of gene bank collections of rice", project cost Rs.70.9432 Lakh implemented in 2020.
  • NIBIO sponsored project on "AAU-NIBIO Climate Resilence Project", project cost Rs.2.1 Crore implemented in 2018.