Pragnyashree Mishra (b.1990) has done her B.Sc. (Ag.) from College of Agriculture, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar in 2011, M.Sc. (Ag.) in Horticulture from Narendra Dev University of Agriculture and Technology, Faizabad in 2013. She is the recipient of Chancellor's as well as Vice-chancellor's gold medal for her grade point during M.Sc. (Ag.). She has done her Ph.D. in Horticulture with major in Floriculture & Landscaping from Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar in 2017 with INSPIRE Fellowship by DST, Government of India. she is the life member of Horticulture Society of India, Horticulture Society of Odisha and Society of Ornamental Horticulture. She successfully qualified NET in Floriculture & Landscaping during 2013 conducted by ASRB, New Delhi. She started her career as Assistant Professor of Floriculture & Landscaping at College of Horticulture, OUAT, Chiplima in 2015. She has 6 years of experience in teaching. She has published 15 research papers in national and international journals, 17 abstracts of symposia,10 popular articles and 2 book chapters.Bhimasen Naik (b.1961) hails from an agri-horticultural family of Western Odisha (Village: Jamtalia, Tehsil: Sundargarh, District: Sundargarh). He obtained B.Sc. (Ag. & A.H.) and M.Sc. (Ag.) in Genetics and Plant Breeding from Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur in 1981 and 1983, respectively, and Ph.D. from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar in1999. He has been awarded ICAR Junior Research Fellowship and CSIR Senior Research Fellowship during his studies. He is a Fellow of the Indian Society of Genetics & Plant Breeding, New Delhi; and life member of the Crop Improvement Society of India, Ludhiana; the Indian Society of Plant Breeders, Coimbatore; the Society for Advancement of Rice Research, Hyderabad; the Indian Society of Oilseeds Research, Hyderabad and the Society for Plant Biochemistry & Biotechnology, New Delhi. He has worked on breeding and genetics of ginger, turmeric, mungbean, linseed and rice. He has more than 36 years of research and teaching experience at Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology. He has 56 research papers published in peer-reviewed national and international journals, 23 abstracts of symposia, 04 books, 01 book chapter (Springer-Nature) and 20 popular articles to his credit. He has guided one M.Sc. (Ag.) and one Ph.D. student. He is associated in the development of five cultivars in ginger (Suruchi), turmeric (Surama, Ranga and Rashmi) and linseed (Arpita); collaborated in development of three cultivars in rice (Ashutosh, Gobinda and Hasanta) and registered one genetic stock of mungbean (BSN 1, INGR 00011).
