Awards & Fellowship

 

 

Institute award and recognition

INSTITUTE awards

 

2019-20

Green Maple Foundation Award (GMF) – 2019: ICAR- Central Coastal Agricultural Research Institute, Old Goa received the prestigious Green Maple Foundation Awards (GMF) – 2019 for outstanding contribution in research excellence in the award ceremony held at Goa on 29th December, 2019. The award bestowed for the excellent contribution of ICAR- CCARI, Old Goa in the field of research, development and upliftment of the society.

Awarded with ISO 9001 2015: International Certification Services Pvt. Ltd. has awarded
ISO 9001:2015 to ICAR –CCARI, Goa for the quality management system applicable to the scope of Research, Development, Training and Advisory Services in the field of Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal and Fishery Sciences with a registration No. RQ91/9735 w.e.f.  9th October, 2017. The ISO certification was facilitated by the M/s NVST TQM CONSULTANTS, Belgaum, Karnataka.

 

2008

KVK was given all India Best KVK Award during 2008 

 

individual awards

2023

Parveen Kumar

Fellowship of NAAS

Dr. Sreekanth GB

Associateship of NAAS

Young Scientist’s Award of NAAS

Dr. Bappa Das

Young Scientist’s Award of NAAS

 

2022

 Gopal Mahajan

Fulbright Outreach Lecturing Fund (OLF) Award 2022 of Institute of International Education (IIE), Washington DC, US to deliver lectures at the California State University, Fresno State, California, US in October 2022 

Fulbright Outreach Lecturing Fund (OLF) Award 2022 of Institute of International Education (IIE), Washington DC, US to deliver lectures at the University of Florida and Broward College, Florida, US in September 2022

First prize OF THE FAO #GSOIL4N SCIENTIFIC POSTER CONTEST 2022 ($2770) at Global Symposium on Soils for Nutrition organized by the Food and Agricultural Organization, Rome Italy from the 26-29 July 2022. First prize in Theme I and highest vote-getter (8306) among all four themes.

Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence (FNAPE) Fellowship 2021-22 by United States - India Education Foundation, New Delhi, India

 

2021

Parveen Kumar

ISA Gold Medal in recognition of outstanding contributions to Agronomy discipline by Indian Society of Agronomy, New Delhi (Awarded in 2021)

Member, Goa State Biodiversity Board,Government of Goa

Member, (ICAR Nominee): Board of Management, Navasari Agricultural University, Navasari, Gujarat by DG, ICAR, New Delhi

Member, State Level Project Screening Committee (SLPSC) under RKVY, Government of Goa

Member, State Level Nodal Agency for watershed development programs under PMKSY-Watershed Development Component, Government of Goa

Member, State Level Nodal Agency for watershed development programs under PMKSY-Watershed Development Component, Government of Goa

Member, State Level Executive Committee for implementation of NMSA, Government of Goa

Member, State Level Executive Committee for implementation of MIDH-NHM, Government of Goa

Member Assessment Committee for ARS Scientists in the discipline of ‘Agronomy’ at ICAR-IIWM, Bhubanewsar, DDG (NRM), ICAR, New Delhi

Member Assessment Committee of Technical Personnel (Category III), Functional group ‘Field Farm’ of ICAR-NBPGR, New Delhi by Chairman ASRB, New Delhi

Dr. A R Desai

Fly-Cocobot, ranked for the first prize for its novelty, unique innovative concept and cost effective technical and practical feasibility solutions at a national level ‘Kritagya Agtech Hakhathon’ (Krishi Takaniki Gyan) was launched by NAHEP (National Agricultural Higher Education Project) of ICAR, during 2020, for promoting Farm Mechanization,

Certificate of Recognition from the Goa State Biodiversity Board for the work related to documentation, collection and conservation of germplasm of cashew and Mango.

Dr. Manohara KK

Certificate of Recognition from Goa State Biodiversity Board for the work related to documentation, collection and conservation of rice germplasm

Dr. Shivasharanappa N.

Certificate of Recognition from the Goa State Biodiversity Board for the work related to documentation, collection and conservation of Coastal breed of livestock (Shwet Kapila)

R. Solomon Rajkumar

International Association of Food Protection (IAFP) travel award (2021) to attend IAFP 2021 meeting at Phoenix, Arizona, USA

World Veterinary Poultry Association Young Scientist Grant (2019) to attend WVPAC symposium on “Poultry: The value protein for one’s health” held during September 16 – 20, 2019 at Bangkok, Thailand.

Dr. Sreekanth GB

Certificate of Recognition from the Goa State Biodiversity Board for the year 2021 for the work related to documentation, collection and conservation of fish germplasm of Goa

Dr. Sujeet Desai

Sumer Memorial Award-2020 of the Soil Conservation Society of India (SCSI), New Delhi during 30th National Conference on “Soil and Water Management Technologies for Climate Resilience, Agricultural and Environmental Sustainability” held from 14-16 December, 2021.

2020-21

Dr. M J Gupta

Panel member for review of Indian Standards related to Surface covered cultivation, Food and  Agriculture Division, Bureau of Indian Standards, New Delhi.

Member of Scientific Committee of Greensys 2021- International Symposium on New Technologies for Sustainable Greenhouse Systems, to be held between 24-28, October, 2021 at Cancun, Mexico.

Awarded certificate as “Master Trainer - Fruits & Vegetables Processing” under PMFME Scheme November, 2020.

Dr. Sreekanth GB

Young Scientist Award in Fisheries Resource Management by the Society of Fisheries and Life Sciences, College of Fisheries Campus, Mangaluru, Karnataka, India.

Dr. Bappa Das

Selected for Agriculture Research Organization – Israel Postdoctoral Fellowships 2020-21.

ICAR-Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF) at IARI, New Delhi for 2020-21.

Young Scientist Award, 2020, Indian Society for Plant Physiology, New Delhi.

Dr. Sujeet Desai

Professional member of the World Association of Soil and Water Conservation (WASWAC), Beijing, China.

2019-20

R. Solomon Rajkumar

World Veterinary Poultry Association Young Scientist Grant (2019) to attend WVPAC symposium on “Poultry: The value protein for one’s health” held during September 16 – 20, 2019 at Bangkok, Thailand.

Dr. Susitha Rajkumar

World Veterinary Poultry Association Young Scientist Grant (2019) to attend WVPAC symposium on “Poultry: The value protein for one’s health” held during September 16 – 20, 2019 at Bangkok, Thailand.

Dr. Maruthadurai R

Young Scientist Award by Dr. B. Vasantharaj David Foundation in National Conference on Trends in Higher Education, Taxonomy, Agriculture, Biotechnology and Toxicology 17 November, 2019 at Chennai.

Dr. Sreekanth GB

Professional Member of the Australian Society for Fish Biology and Australian Marine Science Association, Sydney, Australia.

 

2018-19

Dr. R. Maruthadurai

Elected as Fellow of Entomological Society of India (FESI) by the President, ESI to honour the significant contributions in the field of Agricultural Entomology in the year 2018.

Dr. Gopal Ramdas Mahajan

Tuition scholarship 2019 to attend a training program on ‘Environmental Management’ at Galilee Institute of Management, Nahalal, Israel from 10-23 September 2019.

Dr. Sreekanth GB

Associate Editor for the Journal “Fisheries and Life Sciences”. Board member for the state level approval and monitoring committee (SLAMC) for fisheries projects under blue revolution schemes, Govt. of Goa.

Dr. Bappa Das

ICAR Jawaharlal Nehru Award for P.G. Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Agricultural and Allied Sciences 2017 by Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi.

Ms Anuradha Naik

Nari Shakti Puraskar Award: Ms Anuradha Naik, Research Associate working in IPR/NIAF Project of the Institute was conferred with prestigious Nari Shakti Puraskar Award at the hands of Shri Ram Nath Kovind, Honourable President of India on 8th March 2019 at Rashtrapathi Bhawan for her exceptional work done towards empowerment of tribal women in kholla village, South Goa.

2017-18

Dr. Mathala J Gupta

ISAE Distinguished Service Certificate Award for Significant Contribution in
the Field of Processing, Dairy and Food Engineering.

Dr. Shivasharanappa N

Fulbright-Nehru Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2018-19 by United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF), New Delhi to carry out project work on Exploring CRISPR- gene editing technology in Antimicrobial resistance at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.

Dr. G. R. Mahajan

Early Career Research Award-2017 by Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi 

Dr. Sreekanth G. B.

Young Scientist Award by the Asian Fisheries Society Indian Branch in the 11th Indian Fisheries and Aquaculture Forum at Kochi, Kerala during 21st to 24th November, 2017.

Dr. Bappa Das

Early Career Research Award-2017 by Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi

ICAR Jawaharlal Nehru Award for P.G. Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Agricultural and Allied Sciences 2017 by Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi.

Dr. Nibedita Nayak

IPSA Kerala Chapter Award for excellence in poultry nutrition by Indian
Poultry science Association in the XXXIV Annual Conference of the Indian Poultry Science Association (IPSACON 2017) during 28th-30th November, 2017 at Bengaluru.

 

2016-17

Dr. Sreekanth G. B.

Young Scientist Award in the section of “Animal, Veterinary and Fisheries Sciences” during the 104th Indian Science Congress during 3-7 January, 2017 at Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupathi, Andhra Pradesh.

Dr. Bappa Das

ISCA Young Scientist Award by Indian Science Congress for the Section of Agricultural & Forestry Section for the Ph.D. research work on “Evaluation of different uni-and multvariate techniques for water-deficit stress phenotyping of rice through spectroscopy” presented in 104th Indian Science Congress held during 3-7 January, 2017 at SV University, Tirupathi, Andhra Pradesh.

Institute Merit Medal for Outstanding Academic Performance in Doctor of Philosophy
presented in 55th Convocation held at ICAR-IARI, New Delhi

 

2015-2016

 Smt. Lizette Noronha

Administrative Category Employees National Award of ICAR, New Delhi at the hands of the Hon. Union Minister of State for Agriculture Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan and Shri Mohan Bhai Kundariya during 87th ICAR foundation day & Award Ceremony at Sri Krishna Memorial Hall, Patna on 25 July, 2015.

 

farmers awards

2019-20

Jagjivan Ram Abhinav Kisan Puruskar: Shri Vinod Gopal Barve, progressive farmers from Sattari, North Goa was awarded prestigious Jagjivan Ram Abhinav Kisan Puruskar under Zonal category for Zone VIII. This award was declared by Shri Narendra Singh Tomar, Hon’ble Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare during 92nd Foundation Day and Award Ceremony of Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi on 16th July, 2020. Shri Vinod Gopal Barve, was nominated by ICAR- Central Coastal Agricultural Research Institute for the above award. 

IARI Innovative Farmers Award: Shri. Abhijeet Sawaikar, a progressive farmer from Khandola, Marcel Goa received the prestigious IARI Innovative Farmer Award 2020 at ICAR - IARI, New Delhi on 7th March, 2020. Shri. Abhijeet Sawaikar was nominated by ICAR- Central Coastal Agricultural Research Institute for the above award. 

2019-20

State level award

Krushi Vibhushan Award: Goa State Level Award - Krushi Vibhushan Award to Smt. Anita Mattew Vallikkappem, Assonoda.

Fr. Inacio Almeida Annual Awarde for Organic farming: Goa State Level Awards Fr. Inacio Almeida Annual Awarde for Organic farming to Shri Deelip Narulkar, Pernem.

 

2018-19

IARI Innovative Farmer Award 2019: Shri. Sanjiv Balaji Kunkalienkar a progressive farmer resident of Mangeshi, Ponda Taluka, Goa received prestigious IARI Innovative Farmers Award 2019 at ICAR - IARI, New Delhi on 7th March 2019. Shri.Sanjiv Balaji Kunkalienkar was nominated by ICAR- Central Coastal Agricultural Research Institute, Goa.

 

2017-18

IARI Innovative Farmer Award 2018: Shri Chinmay Tanshikar, a progressive farmer resident of Netravali, Sanguem Taluk, Goa received prestigious IARI Innovative Farmers Award-2018.

Plant Genome Saviour Community Award: Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Authority (PPV&FRA), Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, New Delhi has bestowed Plant Genome Saviour Community Award upon Khola/Canacona Chilli Cultivators Group, South Goa. The Plant Genome Savior Community Award is conferred by Govt. of India through PPV&FRA under the provision of section 45 of PPV&FR Act, 2001.

 

2016-17

IARI Innovative Farmer Award 2017: Shri Babu Narhari Komarpant, a progressive farmer resident of Devbag, Palolem, Cancona, South Goa, Goa received prestigious IARI Innovative Farmers Award-2018.

 

Best poster / PAPER PRESENTATION awards

2021

Manohara KK

Best Poster Award to ‘Popularizing Drought-Tolerant Rice Variety Sahbhagi Dhan in Upland Areas of Goa State through Front Line Demonstrations - An Impact Assessment’ In International E-Symposium on Coastal Agriculture (ISCA Webinar): Transforming Coastal Zone for Sustainable Food and Income Security organized by Indian Society of Coastal Agricultural Research (ISCAR), Canning Town, West Bengal during 16-19th March, 2021.

Gokuldas PP

Best Poster Award in the International Conference on Smart Agriculture for Resource Conservation and Ecological Stability organized by Academy of Natural Resource Conservation and Management (ANRCM) and held virtually during 29-30th October, 2021

Dr. Sujeet Desai

Best Poster Presentation Award for the paper: Desai S, Das B, Sreekanth GB, Mahajan GR (2021) Assessment of long-term trends in stream flow of river basins flowing in the West Coast of India, International Symposium on Coastal Agriculture (ISCA Webinar): Transforming Coastal Zone for Sustainable Food and Income Security organized in virtual mode during March 16-19, 2021.

2019-20

Dr. Sreekanth GB

Best paper award (first prize) in National Hindi Seminar “Harith Matsyaki 2019” on 30 July 2019 at ICAR-CIFT, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.

Best paper award in International conference on Aquatic resources and Blue economy, AQUABE-2019 from 28-30 November, 2019 at KUFOS, Kochi, Kerala.

Dr. Sujeet Desai

Best Oral paper award in the International conference on Soil and Water Resources Management for Climate Smart Agriculture and Global Food and Livelihood Security from 4 - 9 November, 2019 at NASC complex, New Delhi.

Dr. Nibedita Nayak

Second best poster presentation award in IPSACON-2019 from December 11-13, 2019 at CGKV, Durg, Chattisgarh.

Dr. R Ramesh

Awarded best oral presentation for presenting research paper during National seminar on spices: Emerging trends in production, processing and marketing (21-22, January, 2020) at ICAR-CCARI, Goa, India.

Dr. Maneesha SR

Best oral paper presentation award in National seminar on spices: Emerging trends in production, processing and marketing on 21-22, January, 2020 at ICAR-CCARI, Goa.

Dr. Sujeet Desai

Received the Best Oral paper award in the National Seminar on Landslide Mitigation and Slope Management held from 28-29, February, 2020 at ICAR-IISWC, RC, Udhagamandalam, Tamilnadu.

2018-19

Dr. Maruthadurai R.

Best poster presentation award was bestowed in “First International Conference
on Biological Control approaches and applications” by ICAR-NBAIR at Bengaluru held during 27-29th September 2018.

Dr. S. Priya Devi

Secured first place in oral presentation in International Conference on Rural Livelihood Improvement by Enhancing Farmers’ Income through Sustainable Innovative Agri and Allied Enterprises, held at Patna, during 30th October to 1st Nov 2018.

Dr. Nibedita Nayak 

Received Best oral presentation award for ‘Detection of partial promoter of ACACB
gene’ in IPSACON-2018 held at ICAR-CIARI, Port Blair, during 15th-17th November, 2018.

2017-18

Dr. R.S. Rajkumar  

Best Paper Award during the National Seminar, organized by ISSGPU, Avikanagar
on “Small Ruminants: National Scope on Upscaling Production to Products Value addition and their Safety” at ICAR- CIRG, Makhdoom, Farah, Mathura.

Dr. Gokuldas P.P.

J.N. Pandey Memorial Best poster award in National Symposium on Physiological
Innovations to Forecast the Impact of Climate Change and to evolve Strategies for Sustainable Livestock Production, Veterinary College, Bidar from 21st to 22nd December, 2017.

Dr. Sreekanth G.B.

Best Poster Award in the section of “Animal, Veterinary and Fisheries sciences” in the 105th Indian Science Congress held at Manipur Central University, Imphal, Manipur from 16th to 20th March, 2018.

2016-17

Dr. Safeena S. A.

Best oral Presentation Award for the paper entitled “Value addition of tuberose spikes (Polianthes tuberosa L.) by tinting with edible dyes” in National Symposium on Advances in Agriculture Through Sustainable Technologies and Holistic Approaches held during 15-17 February, 2017 at the International Centre, Dona Paula, Goa.

Dr. Susitha Rajkumar

Best oral presentation for paper entitled “Genetic characterization of Mycoplasma gallisepticum isolates from Indian Poultry flocks”. in III AAHP Convention and National Symposium on Poultry Health and Welfare, Riding the wave to the Future. 20-21 October 2016 organized by AAHP and ICAR-CCARI at Goa.

Mrs. Manju Lekshmi N

Best oral Presentation Award for the paper entitled, “Ecological evaluation of coastal aquaculture systems in Goa” in the National Symposium on Advances in Agriculture Through Sustainable Technologies and Holistic Approaches to be held during 15-17 February, 2017 at the International Centre, Dona Paula, Goa.

Dr. Chethan Kumar

Best Poster Presentation Award for the paper entitled “A Development of lateral flow assay for the serodiagnosis of Japanese encephalitis in swine” in XIV annual conference of IAVPHS held during 21-22 November, 2016 at Udaipur, Rajasthan. Best Poster Presentation Award for the paper entitled “Human brucellosis: A study on seroprevalence and potential risk factors among the occupational high risk groups Brucellosis 2016 ” in International Research Conference held during November 17-19, 2016 at New Delhi.

Ms. Maneesha S. R.

Peerless poster award in the National conference on fruit breeding for Tropics and Subtropics: An Indian perspective, on “Analysis of Simple Sequence Repeats (SSR) polymorphism in mango (Mangifera Indica L.) Varieties of Goa” held during 26-29 April, 2016 at ICAR-IIHR, Bengaluru, Karnataka.

 

Hindi Magazine Award

Pragya - Annual Hindi Magazine (2013-14) of the Institute was awarded Ganesh Sankar Vidhyarthi Hindi Krishi Patrika Puraskar for the year 2013-14.

Pragya - Annual Hindi Magazine (2013-14) of the Institute was awarded Ganesh Sankar Vidhyarthi Hindi Krishi Patrika Puraskar for the year 2012-13.