Ph.D in Agricultural Extension
Assistant Professor
M.S. Swaminathan School of Agriculture
 
Department: DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & COMMUNICATION
Phone: 8118959681
 

About Me

Dr. Satarupa Modak completed Ph.D. from Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, West Bengal during 2019, involved in three months PG internship programme of MANAGE, Hyderabad in 2017; qualified ASRB-NET in 2016; completed M.Sc (Agricultural Extension) from Anand Agricultural University, Gujarat in 2014; B.Sc (Agri) from Central Agricultural University, Imphal in 2012.

Worked as Watershed Development Team Member of IWMP a project of State level Nodal agency in the year 2014; as Senior Research Fellow in PDASMASS/PDFMD project of ICAR at State D.I lab in 2015; as Research Officer in an NGO named Centre for Research Innovation and Science Policy (CRISP) & Agricultural Extension in South-east Asia (AESA) network during 2019.

Currently working as Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Extension, MSSSOA, CUTM. She has experience in guiding three master's students so far.
 
Research Fields

  • Entrepreneurial competency
  • Diffusion and adoption of organic farming technology
  • Integrating gender and nutrition within agricultural advisory services
Teaching

  • Fundamentals of Agricultural Extension
  • e-Extension
  • Gender Sensitization in Agriculture

Expertise

  • Entrepreneurial development aspects
  • Socio economic studies
  • factor effecting adoption and diffusion
  • impact analysis studies
  • research data analysis with SPSS/ SPSS-Amos

Interests

  • Gender & nutrition sensitive agriculture
  • Pluralistic extension system
  • Private extension
  • Farmer-extension-research linkages
  • ICTs for agricultural extension
  • Social Media for agricultural extension
  • Organization culture and staff management
  • Integrating gender in extension
  • Engaging youth in extension
  • Nutrition sensitive approaches in extension