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Faculty Member

Hirak Chatterjee
Professor

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Department
Plant Protection

 
Qualification: M.Sc (Ag)., Ph.D.

Contact Address:
Professor of Agricultural Entomology and Head, Department of Plant Protection, Palli Siksha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan - 731236

Email:
hirak.chatterjee@visva-bharati.ac.in ; hc65@rediffmail.com

Fax: 
03463-264118

Phone numbers (mobile and/or landline):
+91-3463-264832+91-3463-264832 ; 264779 (O); 
+91-9434023845+91-9434023845(M) +91-3462 255157+91-3462 255157(R)

Academic Qualification

 

 

Year

Degree

Division/Marks

College/University

1983

Higher Secondary

1st Division (64.4%)

West Bengal Board of Higher Secondary Education

1988

B.Sc.(Ag. Hons.)

1st Division (83.4%)

Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur

1990

M.Sc.(Ag.)

1st division (86.3%)

Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur

2002

Ph.D.

1st Division (86.7%)

Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya

Date of Birth: 2nd October 1965

Research areas:
Economic Entomology, Microbial control of insect-pests, Sustainable & Eco-friendly management of insect-pests of crops
Administration:
  • At present serving as HOD ,Department of Plant Protection ;
  • Also serving as Nodal Officer “NISAGENET”, ICAR for Palli Siksha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, since 2010.
  • Serving as Member of the Research Board (2006-2008), Visva-Bharati
  • Life member of Five learned bodies of different Plant Protection societies
  • Member of International Fruit Fly Association.
  • Acting as Councilor of the Journal of Plant Protection and Environment, OUAT, Orissa, Bhubaneswar since 2007

National and International Exposure:
 Apart from numerous International & National Seminars Conferences, Symposiums attended, also visited research laboratories for Medfly mass rearing facility at Caudete de las Fuentes, IVIA experimental station and release facility at Moncada, Spain and delivered talks in the “8th International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance” at Valencia, Spain (2010).

International Assignment:
1. Principal investigator of the collaborative project on “Pioneering Development of a Public-Private partnership in the use of Agribiotechnology for Sustainable solutions to insect-pests on Crucifer crops in India” Sponsored by Vater and Sohn Eiselen-Stiftung, Ulm, Germany through AVRDC, Taiwan.

2. Co-Investigator of the International Project.  
“Implementation and promotion of IPM technology for the control of eggplant (brinjal) fruit and shoot borer (Leucinodes orbonalis)in Indo-gangetic plains of South Asia” sponsored by Department for International Development (DFID), London, UK,

Awards and Honours:

Crop Research’ awarded by the Governing body of Agricultural Research Information Centre, (ARIC) Gourav Society, Hissar, Haryana for the contribution made in the field of  pest management.

Significant publications:

    • H.Chatterjee and S.N.Koley, 1995. New endoparasite of Antheraea mylitta D. Indian Silk. 11: 33-34
    • H.Chatterjee, 2001. Life Table of citrus trunk borer (Anoplophora versteegi) and evaluation of some insecticidal formulations against it in the Himalayan region of West Bengal, Journal of Interacademicia, 5(2): 206-211
    • H. Chatterjee. 2006. “Microbial Control of Insect-pests of Crops” In: Applied Microbiology, edited by P.C. Trivedi. Agribios (India), Jodhpur. 113-144 P.
    • H.Chatterjee, 2009. “Indigenous Knowledge Based Biopesticides For Sustainable Pest Management Of Okra (Abelmoschus Esculentus Moench. In: Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Common People’s Rights. Agribios, Jodhpur. 2009. pp 143-148.
    • H.Chatterjee and A.K.Choudhury, 2003. Persistent toxicity of some biopesticides against Pieris brassicae infesting cauliflower in Terai region of West Bengal, Annals of Plant Protection, 1(2): 215-19
    • Srinivasan, R., B.S. Rekha, T.M. Bharpoda, Hirak Chatterjee, A.R.V. Kumar, R.C. Jhala and Lin Mei-Ying. 2008. Is Bacillus thuringiensis better than pesticides in vegetable brassicas?, In: Proceedings of the International Congress of Entomology (CD-ROM), July 06-12, 2008, Durban, South Africa
    • S.K.Mahato and H.Chatterjee 2008. Trend analysis of Jassid (Amrasca biguttula biguttula Ishida) population on Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L) as influenced by weather parameters. Journal of Eco-friendly Agriculture, 3(2):160-163
    • H. Chatterjee and N. Laskar, 2010. Fruit infestation on some cucurbits as influenced by pupal and fly density of melon fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae (Coquillett) in soil and their management through soil treatments. In: the Proceeding books of 8th International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance, at Valencia, Spain. Organized by IVIA and  Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. 333-339 p.
    • R. Srinivasan2,  H. Chatterjee3 and  A.R.V. Kumar1 2011. Susceptibility of diamondback moth and cabbage head caterpillar to Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) δ-endotoxins on vegetable brassicas in India In: 6Th International DBM Workshop, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, March 21-25, 2011 at Kasetsart University, Thailand.


Number of Ph.D students produced : 04
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