Niranjan PrasadNiranjan Prasad (PhD) did his BE (agricultural engineering) from CTAE, Udaipur, India (1988), and MTech (1991) and PhD from IIT, Kharagpur, India (1996). He obtained his post-doctoral training in smart/active packaging from Michigan State Univrsity, USA. He worked as a lecturer at NERIST, Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh, during 1996-1997. Later, he joined Indian Lac Research Institute, Ranchi, as an agricultural research service scientist in 1997 and presently works as a principal scientist and the head of Agri Bio-resources Augmentation Division at ICAR-National Institute of Secondary Agriculture, Ranchi, India. He is also working as a project coordinator of the All India Network Project on Conservation of Lac Insect Genetic Resources. He worked as a consortium principal investigator of the National Agricultural Innovation Project (World Bank) on Lac Value Chain. During his 28 years of experience in research and extension, he published 65 research papers in national and international journals. He has developed several tools and machines for gums and resins production and processing which have been commercialized. Dr. Prasad is member of several professional societies and recipient of many awards Read More Read Less