Awards/ Recognitions
1 Awarded Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) by ICAR, New Delhi during 2002 for Master’s degree in Agricultural Extension at College of Agriculture, Vellayani, Kerala Agricultural University, Thiruvananthapuram.
2 Awarded Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) by IARI, Pusa campus, New Delhi during 2006 for Doctoral degree in Agricultural Extension at Division of Agricultural Extension, IARI, Pusa, New Delhi.
3 Awarded ‘A’ grade by NAARM for overall excellent performance in 87th FOCARS during 23.6.09 to 20.10.09.
4 Awarded IARI merit medal on 13.2.10 for outstanding academic and research performance in Ph. D. degree programme in IARI, New Delhi.
5 Acted as a Judge for selecting arecanut farmer for ‘Best Arecanut Farmer Award’ during 2012-13 sponsored by All India Betelnut Federation & Indian Society for Plantation Crops, Kasaragod. Visited arecanut gardens in Dakshina Kannada district and Shimoga district of Karnataka for evaluating the gardens as per the evaluation criteria’s.
6 Member in Expert Committee: Member in Expert meeting on ‘Formulation of package for yellow leaf disease affected arecanut gardens in Karnataka’ on 26th July & on 28th August, 2013 at Directorate of Horticulture, Lalbagh, Bangalore.
7 Best poster award for the paper: Jayasekhar, S., Chandran, K. P., Thamban, C., Muralidharan, K. and Jaganathan, D. 2014. Imperativeness of stabilized prices in the system of innovation: The case of coconut sector. National conference on Sustainability of coconut, arecanut and cocoa farming – Technological advances and way forward. 22-23rd August, 2014, CPCRI, Kasaragod.
8 Member in Executive Committee, CAMPCO, Mangalore: Member in Executive committee for Krishi Yanthra Mela – III held during 24-26th January, 2015 at Vivekananda College of Engineering and Technology, Puttur, Karnataka.
9 Member, Organizing Committee, National Seminar: National seminar on planting material production in spices during 21-22 April, 2016 at Hotel Malabar Palace, Kozhikode as part of golden jubilee celebrations of DASD, Kozhikode.
10 Best poster award in National Symposium: Jayasekhar S, Chandran K.P, Thamban C, Jaganathan, D and Muralidharan, K. 2016. Sectoral innovation system of coconuts in India: Institutional voids and organizational resilience. 22nd Plantation Crops Symposium. 15-17 December 2016, ICAR-CPCRI, Kasaragod.
11 Evaluation of project proposal: Project titled ‘Introducing agro based technology to women farmers in rural villages for better livelihood’ submitted by Socio economic development corporation, Maharashtra was evaluated for funding by Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi.
12 Awarded Dr. N. A. Mujumdar prize award for best oral research paper titled ‘Does APMC market increase farmers income? Evidence from value chain analysis of sweet potato in Karnataka’ (authored by Prakash, P., Jaganathan, D., Sivakumar, P.S., Sheela Immanuel, Prabhat Kishore and Pramod Kumar) in the 78th Annual conference of Indian Society of Agricultural Economics organized by Institute of Economic growth and International Food Policy Research Institute, New Delhi during November 01-03, 2018.
13 Bagged best oral presentation award: Jaganathan, D., Sheela Immanuel, A.V.V. Koundinya and P. Sethuraman Sivakumar in International Conference on Extension for Strengthening Agricultural Research and Development (eSARD 2019) organized by Extension Education Society, TNAU, Coimbatore during 14-16 December 2019 at Mysuru, Karnataka.
14 14. Bagged best oral presentation award: Jaganathan, D., Sheela Immanuel, Prakash, P., and Sivakumar, P. S. 2020. Sustainable livelihood assessment of taro and paddy growers in Nayagarh district of Odisha in the National Conference on Agricultural Resource Management for Atma Nirbhar Bharat, 17-19 July 2020, Central Agricultural University, Imphal, Manipur.
15 15. Bagged best oral presentation award: Ana Raj, Jaganathan, D., P Prakash and Sheela Immanuel. 2020. Gender analysis in cassava cultivation in Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu in the National Conference on Gender issues and Atma Nirbhar Bharat, 15-17 October 2020, Central Agricultural University, Imphal, Manipur.