Agrobiodiversity and Sustainable Rural Development - Hardcover

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S. K. Soam belongs to 44th batch of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of ICAR. He has more than 21 years of work experience in 'Agricultural Research Management' comprising Project Management, Intellectual Property Rights and Knowledge Management. He joined ICAR in April 1993 as Probationer Scientist in 44th Foundation Course for Agricultural Research Service (FOCARS) at NAARM, as FOCARS trainee completed six month on-job training at NBPGR. Posted as Scientist at Directorate on Sorghum Research (Now called Indian Institute of Millets Research), Hyderabad, and at Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute (IGFRI), Jhansi. In May 2000, joined NAARM as Senior Scientist, later promoted as Principal Scientist in May 2008. In August 2011 joined as Head, Information and Communication Management (ICM) division at NAARM. For about three and half years (From 19th November 2017 to 29th April 2021) he worked as Joint Director (I/c), NAARM.

To sharpen his skills, he has attended several trainings abroad such as- International Agricultural Research at ICRA, The Netherlands; Senior Executive Development Programme on Leadership at Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. Had been 'Visiting Fellow' in International Trade and IPRs at World Trade Institute, Bern, Switzerland; in Technology Management at Washington State University, Pullman, USA. Worked as Member of 'Research Advisory Group' at University of Warwick, United Kingdom. During 2007-10 worked as Member of CGIAR-Central Advisory Service for Intellectual Property (CAS-IP), Rome, Italy, and as its member, attended several meetings in Italy, USA, Kenya, The Netherlands and Indonesia etc. Represented, Govt of India in Conference of Parties (COP-11) of Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) held in Hyderabad during 2013.

Since 2013, working as Member, Consultative Group of Geographical Indication Registry, Govt of India, and till now around 70 agricultural products have been facilitated including 'Banglar Rasagolla' and 'Odhisha Rasagolla'. As Head, ICM, he has developed and copyrighted several software, out of which 'Research Concept Writer', 'Project Logframe Writer' and 'AHP Analyser' have around 2000 registered users in 70 countries, which are available at Google search as open access software.

M. Balakrishnan started his career as Scientist at CARI, Port Blair, in 1999 and served there for one decade for various posts (as scientist Rescale and Sr. Scientist). Then he moved to NAARM and is working as Senior Scientist since July 2012 and was later promoted to the position of Principal Scientist.