Dr. K.G. Mandal

Directorate of Water Management (ICAR), India

Email: mandal98kg@yahoo.co.in

Qualifications

1998 Ph.D., B.C.K.V., West Bengal

1993 M.Sc., Visva-Bharati University

1991 B.Sc., Visva-Bharati University

Publicaitons(Selected)

1. Mandal, K.G., Baral, U., Padhi, J., Majhi, P., Chakraborty, H. and Kumar, A. 2012. Effects of cropping on soil properties and organic carbon stock in Deras region, India. Regional Environmental Change (Springer), 12 (4): 899-912.
2. Mandal, K.G., Hati, K.M., Misra, A.K., Bandyopadhyay, K.K. and Tripathi, A.K. 2013. Land surface modification and crop diversification for enhancing productivity of a Vertisol. International Journal Plant Production 7 (3): 455-472
3. Mandal, K.G., Kundu, D.K., Thakur, A.K., Kannan, K., Brahmanand, P.S., and Kumar, A. 2013. Aerobic rice response to irrigation regimes and fertilizer nitrogen rates. Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment 11 (3&4): 1148-1153.
4. Mandal, K.G., Majhi, P., Sahoo, D.K., Rout, R., Kumar, A., Ghosh, S., Mohanty, R.K., and Raychaudhuri, M. 2013. Assessing the soil environment under major cropping systems in Kuanria canal command. Ecology, Environment and Conservation, 19 (2): 509-513
5. Thakur, A.K., Rath, S., and Mandal, K.G. 2013. Differential responses of system of rice intensification (SRI) and conventional flooded-rice management methods to applications of nitrogen fertilizer. Plant and Soil (Springer) 370: 59-71.
6. Mandal, K.G., Kannan, K., Thakur, A.K., Kundu, D.K., Bramhanand, P.S. and Kumar, A.  2014. Performance of rice systems, irrigation and organic carbon storage. Cereal Research Communications42 (2): in press
7. Mandal, K.G., Wanrong Gu, Zhang Ming Cai, Duan Liusheng and Li Zhaohu. 2014. Effect of nutrient- N, P & K starvation on root growth of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merrill] seedlings. Ecology, Environment and Conservation, 20 (2): in press
8. Panda, D.K., Mishra, A., Kumar, A., Mandal, K.G., Thakur, A.K. and Srivastava, R.C. 2014. Spatiotemporal patterns in the mean and extreme temperature indices of India, 1971-2005. International Journal of Climatology (Wiley), DOI: 10.1002/joc.3931.
9. Mandal, K.G., Kundu, D.K., Singh, R., Kumar, A., Rout, R., Padhi, J., Majhi, P. And Sahoo, D.K. 2013. Cropping practices, soil properties, pedotransfer functions and organic carbon storage at Kuanria canal command area in India. SpringerPlus (Springer) 2: 631 (1-14), DOI: 10.1186/2193-1801-2-631.
10. Hati, K.M., Chaudhary, R.S., Mandal, K.G., Misra, A.K. Singh, R.K., Wani, S.P., Singh, P. And Pathak, P. 2013. Effect of land management and cropping systems on runoff, soil loss, soil water dynamics and crop yield in a vertisol of central India. J. Indian Soc. Soil Sci. 61 (2): 79-88.
11. Mandal, K.G., Kumar, Ashwani, Ghosh, S., Kundu, D.K., Panda, R.K., Mohanty, R.K., Raychaudhuri, M., Padhi, J., Majhi, P. and Sahoo, D.K. 2013.  Analyses of Rainfall and Soil Characteristics of Kuanria Canal Command for Water Resources Management. Research Bulletin No. 57, Directorate of Water Management (ICAR), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, 43p.
12. Mandal, K.G., Thakur, A.K., Kumar, Ashwani, Chakraborty, H., Kundu, D.K., Mohanty, S., Brahmanand, P.S. and Sinha, M.K. 2013. Irrigation Water Saving Techniques for Post-Rainy Season Crops in Deras Minor Command. Technical Bulletin No. 58, Directorate of Water Management (ICAR), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, 42p.
13. Mandal, K.G. and Brahmanand, P.S. 2013. Agronomic Principles for Increased Production under Bio-drainage Systems. In: Roy Chowdhury, S., Brahmanand, P.S., Ghosh, S., Mohanty, R.K., Jena, S.K. and Kumar Ashwani (Eds.) Bio-drainage for Reclamation of Waterlogging in High Rainfall Deltaic Areas, Directorate of Water Management (ICAR), Bhubaneswar, India. pp. 101-107.
14. Mandal, K.G., Padhi, J., Majhi, P. Baral, U., Chakraborty, H. and Kumar, Ashwani 2014. Impact on soil organic carbon stock due to continuous rice-based cropping under hot sub-humid climate. In: J.C. Dagar, A. Arunachalam, A.K. Singh (Eds.) Climate Change and Crop Production (ISBN 978-81-7910-440-8), Aaviskar Publishers, Distributors, Jaipur, India. pp. 100-108.
15. Mohanty, S., Ghosh, S., Mohanty, R.K., Mandal, K.G., Rautaray, S.K. and Kumar, Ashwani. 2014. Effect of water resources development and other agricultural interventions on livelihood of rainfed farmers in Odisha, India. In: N.B. Narasimha Prasad, P.S. Harikumar, E.J. Joseph, Girish Gopinath, T.R. Resmi, U Surendran, G.K. Ambili (Eds.). Integrated Water Resources Management Vol. II, Proc. Intl. Symp. On Integrated Water Resources Management Feb 19-21, 2014 (IWRM-2014) by CWRDM, Kozhikode, Kerala, India. Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, pp. 862-871.