Experience Profile

• Joined ICAR on 15.09.2011
• Joined IISR, Lucknow on 23.12.2011
• Joined CRIDA, Hyderabad on 07.05.2014

Brief Bio:

Dr V. Visha Kumari is working as Senior Scientist (Agronomy) at ICAR-Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad, India since 2014. She has research experience of more than 13 years in the field of abiotic stress management in field crops, nanofertilizers for nutrient management, and development of climate resilient cropping systems particularly for rainfed areas of semiarid India. Her extensive studies have resulted in identification of climate resilient fodder based cropping systems for rainfed areas, modules for abiotic stress management in field crops and technologies for organic production of field crops. The recommendations emerged out of her research bridged critical knowledge gaps in these areas, and found wide acceptability in rainfed areas. Her work on fodder based cropping system for rainfed region of the Alfisols is recently accepted by ICAR as an innovative technology too. Further, she has published the research results in journals of international repute. Her contributions have been recognized nationally and is recipient of several awards including Mosaic Foundation best women researcher award, MACOSA 81 award, RATAN TATA fellowship etc.

Awards and Recognitions

• Best Poster Award for Paper "Role of Women in Sugarcane Production" In National Conference on Women in Sugarcane Agriculture and Industry, organised by IISR, Lucknow during 29-31 August, 2013
• Best Poster Award for Paper "Rhizosphere modulation through tillage and value added compost in sugarcane ratoon for higher yield" in International Agronomy Congress, organised by Indian Society of Agronomy, New Delhi 2012
• Certificate of Merit for securing first rank during Master of Professional Studies (Life Science and Agriculture)
• RATAN TATA fellowship during M.P.S degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
• Mossaic award for best outstanding doctoral research for woman, 2023
• Best oral presentation award for the research paper “Foliar spray of micronutrients to alleviate abiotic stress in Lentil “during the National conference on “Agro-Ecology Based Agri-Food Transformation Systems” organized by FSRDA and ICAR-IIFSR in collaboration with CIMMYT and ICRISAT at ICAR-IIFSR, Modipuram, Meerut, India during 27-28, January, 2023
• ISDA Best Ph.D thesis award, 2021-22 for the research “Effect of Foliar Spray of Fe, Zn and B in Mitigating Terminal Heat and Moisture Stress in Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.)", during the ICRA-2022 held at ICAR-Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), Hyderabad, India, from 22-24 December 2022
• Best oral presentation award for the research paper “Livelihood sustainability of rainfed farmers: Impact of various fodder based cropping system in rainfed regions of Telangana “at International conference on “Reimaging rainfed agro-ecosystem: Challenges and opportunities at ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad from 22nd to 24th December 2022
• Best research paper award for the paper titled “The response of Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik) to soil moisture and heat stress under different dates of sowing and foliar application of micronutrients during 38th ICAR-CRIDA foundation day on 12th April 2022.
• Best oral presentation award for the research paper “Effect of foliar nutrients in improving yield and quality in changing climate “presented during the 5th Agronomy congress, PJTSU, Hyderabad from 23rd to 27th November 2021
• Best oral Presentation award under theme one by Crop and Weed Science Society in International Seminar on Agriskills for Convergence in research, Industry and Livelihood held at BCKV, Mohanpur Nadia from November 28th to December 1, 2020.
• Best oral presentation award in National Conference on Technological Challenges in Social, Environmental and Agricultural Reforms, TECHSEAR-2017
• Best research paper award by Indian Association of Soil & Water Conservationists was awarded to Bipul Deka, G.R. Maruthi Sankar, Marami Dutta, T.C. Baruah, Pushpanjali,V. Visha Kumari and P.K. Mishra for paper entitled Assessment of fertility potential for the soils of Northern Brahmaputra valley zone using Principal Component Analysis published by Indian Journal of soil conservation, Vol (45):1, 1-11.
• Best Poster award in International Agronomy Congress, New Delhi for the paper: Menhi Lal, V.Visha Kumari and Asha Gaur, 2012. Rhizosphere modulation through tillage and value-added compost in sugarcane ratoon for higher yield.
• Best poster award for the paper Role of women in sugarcane Production (A.K. Singh, V. Visha Kumari and K.P. Singh, 2013) under Theme II in National Conference on Women in Sugarcane Agriculture and Industry
• RATAN TATA fellowship for MPS program
• Dr. Veerabadran award for Highest marks in Agronomy subjects
• MACOSA 81 Award for overall performance in studies and extracurricular activities
• IAU Endowment Award Best outgoing student award
• MASU prize for highest O.G.P.A

Research Interests

• Cropping Systems
• Abiotic Stress
• Nutrient management

Research Gate

• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Visha-V

Google Schloar

• https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=4di5qXAAAAAJ

Membership

• Life Member, Indian Society of Agronomy
• Life Member, Association of Agrometeorologists

Publications:

• V. Visha Kumari, S.S. Ballolia, D.B.V. Ramanaa, Manoranjan Kumara, V. Maruthi, M. Prabhakara, M. Osman, A.K. Indoria, M. Manjunatha, G. Ravindra Charya, K.A. Gopinatha, G. Venkatesha, G. Sujathaa, Purabi Banerjeea, S.K. Yadava, V.K. Singha, J. Timsina. 2023. Crop and livestock productivity, soil health improvement and insect dynamics: Impact of different fodder-based cropping systems in a rainfed region of India. Agricultural Systems208(2023)103646
• Venugopalan Visha Kumari1, Purabi Banerjee, Rajib Nath Kajal Sengupta, Sarath Chandran M.A. V. Girija Veni, Akbar Hossain.2022. Foliar Application of Zinc, Boron, and Iron Improved Seed Nutrients, Protein Content, and Yield in Late-Sown Stressed Lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus) Crop. Gesunde Pflanzen
• Venugopalan Visha Kumari, Purabi Banerjee, Vivek Chandra Verma, Suvana Sukumaran, Malamal Alickal Sarath Chandran, Kodigal A. Gopinath, Govindarajan Venkatesh, Sushil Kumar Yadav, Vinod Kumar Singh, and Neeraj Kumar Awasthi.2022. Plant Nutrition: An Effective Way to Alleviate Abiotic Stress in Agricultural Crops. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23, 8519.
• Visha Kumari Venugopalan, Rajib Nath, Kajal Sengupta, Anjan K. Pal, Saon Banerjee, Purabi Banerjee1, Malamal A. Sarath Chandran, Suman Roy, Laxmi Sharma, Akbar Hossain and Kadambot H. M. Siddique. 2022. Foliar Spray of Micronutrients Alleviates Heat and Moisture Stress in Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik) Grown Under Rainfed Field Conditions. Frontiers in Plant Science doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.847743
• Kumari V Visha,Nath R, Sengupta K, Nalia A, Banerjee S, Sarath Chandran MA, , İbrahimova U, Dessoky ES, Attia AO, Hassan M, Hossain A. 2021. The Response of Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) to Soil Moisture and Heat Stress under Different Dates of Sowing and Foliar Application of Micronutrients. Frontiers in Plant Science, 10, 67946