Dr. Sangita Mohanty

Dr Sangita Mohanty presently works as a senior scientist in the Crop Production Division of ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack. She has obtained her masters and PhD degrees in Soil Science & Agricultural Chemistry from the premiere Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. Her doctoral thesis has been awarded with Dr S.P. Raychaudhuri Gold Medal for best Ph.D. dissertation in 2007 by Indian Society of Soil Science, New Delhi. Because of her significant contribution towards fertilizer nitrogen management and enhancing nitrogen use efficiency of rice she was awarded NEWS India-UK Senior Fellowship in 2017 by Newton Bhabha Virtual Centre for Enhancing N Efficiency in Whole Cropping System to work as a visiting scientist at University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen Scotland, UK.  She was also conferred with prestigious Nanaji Deshmukh Award for Outstanding Interdisciplinary Team Research in Agricultural and Allied Sciences by Indian Council of Agricultural Resaerch (ICAR) in 2020 for her exemplary contribution towards enhancing N use efficiency of rice and rice based production system. Her research works in several aspects of carbon and nitrogen dynamics in soil-plant-atmosphere continuum, greenhouse gas emission, climate change, nitrogen management have been well documented in more than 75 research papers published in journals of international national and repute. In addition to this she has authored more than nine research bulletin, twenty-five book chapter and five books. Her Google scholar citation is 4090 , h-index is 32 and I 10-index is 58.