
Designation | Senior Scientist |
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Qualification | Ph.D |
Division | Section of Extension & Social Sciences |
Specialisation | Farmers’ participatory research, Sustainable livelihood assessment, Participatory technology transfer, Human resource management, Documentation of farmers’ innovations/ITKs |
Intercom | 108 |
Location | Head Quarters |
Total publications | Number of Research papers: Twenty Three, Number of Books/Book chapters : Fourteen, Number of Technical Bulletins/ Training Manuals : Twenty one |
Areas of Interest
Innovation system analysis, Gender mainstreaming, Socio-economic impact assessment
Research Projects
Research Publications
1. Jaganathan, D., Padmanabhan, V. B., Bhaskaran, C., Chandru, A. and Johnson, B.
2009. Adoption of organic farming practices in vegetable cultivation in
Thiruvananthapuram district. Indian Journal of Extension Education 45 (1 &2): 21-24
2. Jaganathan, D., Ram Bahal and Padaria, R. N. 2009. Comparative analysis of profile
characteristics of organic and inorganic farmers. Pusa Agri Science 32: 83-86
3. Jaganathan, D and Ram Bahal (2010.) Reaping success with Organic Farming.
Agricultural Extension Review (July-Sept, 2010), 22(3):26-28.
4. Chandru, A., Vijayaragavan, K. and Jaganathan, D. 2011. Satisfaction and
Constraints in Accessing Services of Soya Choupal. A Case of Madhya Pradesh.
Indian Journal of Extension Education. 47(1&2): 45 - 49.
5. Jaganathan, D., Ram Bahal and Padaria, R. N. 2010. Reasons for Practicing and Not
Practicing Organic Farming as Perceived by Organic and Inorganic Farmers. Indian
Journal of Extension Education. 46 (3&4): 1- 6. (Printed in 2011)
6. Jaganathan, D. and Ram Bahal. 2010. Reaping success with Organic Farming.
Agricultural Extension Review. 22(3): 26 - 28. (Printed in 2011)
7. Jaganathan, D., Padmanabhan, V. B., Bhaskaran, C., Chandru A. and Lenin. V.
2009. Attitude of Vegetable Growers towards Organic FarmingPractices. Indian
Journal of Extension Education. 45 (3&4): 63-67. (Printed in 2011)
8. Jaganathan, D., Ram Bahal, Roy Burman, R. and Lenin, V. 2012. Knowledge level
of farmers on organic farming in Tamil Nadu. Indian Res. J. Ext. Edu. 12 (3): 70-73
9. Jose, C. T., Jayasekhar, S., Muralidhran, K., Chandran, K. P. and Jaganathan, D.
2012. A robust estimate for location in experiments with plantation crops. Journal of
Plantation Crops. 40(2): 132-134
10. Chandran, K. P., Jose, C. T., Jayasekhar, S., Jaganathan, D., Muralidharan, K. and
Thamban, C. (2015). Yield estimation in cocoa with partial harvest data. Journal of
Plantation Crops. 43 (1) 23-28
11. Jaganathan, D. and Nagaraja, N. R. 2015. Perception of farmers about arecanut
based multispecies cropping system. Indian Research Journal of Extension
Education.15(2): 49-54.
12. Jaganathan, D., Thamban, C., Jose, C.T., Jayasekhar, S., Chandran, K.P. and
Muralidharan, K. 2015. Analysis of organic farming practices in cocoa in India.
Journal of Plantation Crops 43(2): 131 -138.
13. Jayasekhar S, Chandran, K.P, Jaganathan, D. 2015. Inevitability of a Revamped
Innovation System for Inclusive Growth: Evidence from Plantation Crops Sector in
India. Agricultural Economics Research Review, 28(conference issue), 292.
14. Jaganathan, D. 2016. Analysis of organic farming practices in arecanut in south
India. Journal of Community Mobilization and Sustainable Development, 11(2): 206-
214.
15. Thamban, C., Subramanian, P. Jayasekhar, S., Jaganathan, D. and Muralidharan, K.
2016. Group approach for enhancing profitability of small holders through technology
integration–Reflections from coconut farming. Journal of Plantation Crops
44(2):158-165.
16. Jayasekhar, S., Chandran, K.P., Thamban, C. Jaganathan, D. and Muralidharan, K.
2016. Analyzing the trade competitiveness of Indian coconut sector in the
liberalization regime. Journal of Plantation Crops 44(2):147-152.
17. Prakash, P., Jaganathan, D., Sivakumar, P. S., Sheela Immanuel, Prabhat Kishore
and Pramod Kumar. 2018. Does APMC market increase farmers income? Evidence
from value chain analysis of sweet potato in Karnataka, Indian Journal of
Agricultural Economics, 73(3):342-357. (NAAS rating: 5.15)
18. Prakash P., Prabhat Kishore, Jaganathan, D., Sheela Immanuel and Sivakumar, P.S.
2018. The status, performance and impact of sweet potato cultivation on farming
communities of Odisha, India, International Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018,
Vancouver, British Columbia 277216, International Association of Agricultural
Economists. pp 1-12
19. Sheela Immanuel, Jaganathan, D., Sivakumar, P.S., Muthuraj, R. and Prakash, P.
2019. Livelihood assessment of cassava and paddy growing farmers in Tamil Nadu: A
Comparative Analysis. Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Biosciences 7 (4): 90-98
20. Jaganathan, D., Sheela Immanuel, Sanket J More, Sethuraman Sivakumar, P. 2019.
Assessment of livelihood capitals of sweet potato and paddy growers in Karnataka.
Indian Research Journal of Extension Education 19 (4): 43-48
21. Sheela Immanuel, Jaganathan, D., Koundinya, A. V. V., Prakash, P., Sivakumar, P.
S., Kesava Kumar, H. and Muthuraj, R. 2020. Mapping of Livelihood Capitals for
Technological Interventions in Elephant Foot Yam and Banana Cultivation in Andhra
Pradesh. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences 9 (8):
3686-3696
22. Prakash, P., Jaganathan, D., Sheela Immanuel and Sivakumar, P.S. 2020. Analysis
of global and national scenario of tuber crops production: Trends and prospects.
Indian Journal of Economics and Development 16 (4): 500-510
23. Jaganathan, D., Sheela Immanuel, Prakash, P. and Sivakumar, P. S. 2020.
Sustainable livelihood assessment of taro and paddy growers in Nayagarh district of
Odisha. Journal of Community Mobilization and Sustainable Development. 15 (3):
686-693
Books
1. Elain Apshara, S., Jaganathan, D. and Balasimha, D. 2011. Proceedings of seminar
on Strategies for Enhancing Productivity of Cocoa, 28-29 January 2011, CPCRI
Regional Station, Vittal, Karnataka, 196 p.
2. George V Thomas., Jaganathan, D., Nagaraja, N. R., Ananda, K. S., Ravi Bhat,
Vinayaka Hegde, Rajkumar, Hebbar, K. B. and Thamban, C. 2014. Research-farmer-
extension interface on coconut and arecanut- An effective strategy for bridging the
knowledge gap. CPCRI, Kasaragod, 69 p.
3. Thamban, C., Jaganathan, D, Jayasekhar S, Chandran, K.P., and Chowdappa, P
(Eds.) 2016. Harvesting wisdom of coconut growers. ICAR-CPCRI, Kasaragod,
Kerala, 204 p. (ISBN 13-978-81-932263-0-8).
4. Byju, G., Sanket J More and Jaganathan, D. 2020. Proceedings of the International
Webinar on Harnessing the Potential of Tropical Tuber Crops under Changing
Climate, 27 October 2020, ICAR-CTCRI, Thiruvananthapuram, 110 p.
Book chapters
1. Jaganathan, D., Jose, C.T. and Thamban, C. 2011. Transfer of technology
programmes of CPCRI for cocoa development. In Proceedings of Seminar on
Strategies for enhancing productivity of cocoa. 28-29 January 2011, CPCRI Regional
Station, Vittal, Karnataka. 183-186 pp.
2. Jose, C.T., Jaganathan, D. and Muralidharan, K. 2011. Yield variability pattern in
cocoa. In Proceedings of Seminar on Strategies for enhancing productivity of cocoa.
28-29 January 2011, CPCRI Regional Station, Vittal, Karnataka. 162-164 pp.
3. Jaganathan, D., Jayasekhar, S., Aparna Veluru and Chowdappa, P. 2016. Success
stories of coconut growers in Andhra Pradesh. In. Thamban, C., Jaganathan, D,
Jayasekhar S, Chandran, K.P., and Chowdappa, P (Eds.) 2016. Harvesting Wisdom of
Coconut Growers. ICAR-CPCRI, Kasaragod, Kerala, pp 116-139.
4. Jaganathan, D., Thamban, C., Jayasekhar, S., Jose, C.T., Krishnakumar, V.,
Anithakumari, P. and Chandran, K.P. 2017. Organic farming practices in palms and
cocoa: Field level scenario and future strategies. In. Organic farming in Plantation
crops. ( Krishnakumar, V and Chowdappa, P. Eds.), Daya Publishing House, New
Delhi, pp. 305- 316
5. Jayasekhar, S., Thamban, C., Chandran, K. P. and Jaganathan, D. 2017. Transition
towards Organic farming: Policies, problems and prospects. In. Organic farming in
Plantation crops. (Krishnakumar, V and Chowdappa, P. Eds.), Daya Publishing
House, New Delhi, pp. 333-340
6. Annamalai, S. J. K., Keshava Bhat, S., Senthilkumar, T, Ravindra Naik, Jaganathan,
D and Mathew, A.C. 2016. Arecanut and Cocoa. In Mechanization in Plantation
Crops. (Mathew, A.C., Manikantan, M. R. and Chowdappa, P. Eds.), Westville
Publishing House, New Delhi, pp. 58-83.
7. Prakash P., Prabhat Kishore, Jaganathan, D., Sheela Immanuel and Sivakumar, P.S.
2018. The status, performance and impact of sweet potato cultivation on farming
communities of Odisha, India, International Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018,
Vancouver, British Columbia 277216, 30th International Conference of Agricultural
Economists, International Association of Agricultural Economists. 1-12 pp.
8. Sivakumar, P. S., Jaganathan, D. and Sheela Immanuel. 2019. The entrepreneurial
process approach for developing agricultural entrepreneurship. In: Tactics of being an
agripreneur – Learning the rope. Sreedaya, G. S., Anilkumar, A. and Seema, B.
(Eds.), Sathish serial publishing house, Delhi, 9-22 pp.
9. Byju, G., Jaganathan, D., Koundinya, A. V. V. and Sanket J More. 2020. Global
status and SWOT analysis of tropical tuber crops. In. Proceedings of the International
Webinar on Harnessing the Potential of Tropical Tuber Crops under Changing
Climate, 27 October 2020, ICAR-CTCRI, Thiruvananthapuram, 3-13 pp.
10. Ana Raj, J., Jaganathan, D., Prakash, P. and Sheela Immanuel. 2020. Gender
mainstreaming in cassava cultivation in Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu.
Proceedings of National Workshop on Gender Issues and ATMA Nirbhar Bharat in
Agriculture, Central Agricultural University, Imphal, Manipur, 150-160 pp
Technical Bulletins/ Training Manuals
1. Jaganathan, D., Jayasekhar, S. and Jose, C. T. 2010. Training Manual on Arecanut
and Cocoa Production Technology. CPCRI, Kasaragod, 139 p.
2. Elain Apshara, S. and Jaganathan, D. (2011). Calendar for Arecanut. Technical
Bulletin No. 67. CPCRI, Kasaragod, 43 p.
3. Jose, C.T., Muralidharan, K., Jayasekhar, S. and Jaganathan, D. (2010). Proceedings
of the National Seminar on Statistical Methods for Perennial Crops – Current Issues
and Strategies, October 30-31, 2009. CPCRI Regional Station, Vittal, Karnataka, 105
p.
4. Jaganathan, D., Alagar, M., Elain Apshara, S. and Nagaraja, N. R. 2012. Training
Manual on Advances in Arecanut and Cocoa Production Technology. CPCRI
Regional Station, Vittal, Karnataka, 225 p.
5. Thamban, C., Jayasekhar, S., Chandran, K. P. and Jaganathan, D. 2013. Training
Manual on Participatory technology transfer in plantation crops. CPCRI, Kasaragod,
Kerala, 198 p.
6. Ananda, K. S., Nagaraja, N. R., Elain Apshara, S. and Jaganathan, D. 2015.
Calendar for Arecanut (Kannada). Technical Bulletin No. 90. CPCRI, Kasaragod. 43
p.
7. Elain Apshara, S., Jaganathan, D. and Ananda, K. S. 2015. Training Manual on
Cocoa Production and Processing Technologies, CPCRI, Regional Station, Vittal,
Karnataka. 117 p.
8. Thamban, C., Jayasekhar, S., Chandran, K. P. and Jaganathan, D. 2015. Training
Manual on Participatory technology transfer approaches for plantation crops. CPCRI,
Kasaragod, 245 p.
9. Subramanian, P. Thamban, C., Arivalagan, M., Jaganathan, D. and Jayasekhar, S.
2016. Training Manual on Integrated crop management and value addition in coconut.
CPCRI, Kasaragod, 59 p.
10. Jaganathan, D., Thamban, C., Subramanian, P. and Jaysekhar, S. 2016. Training
Manual on Production, processing and marketing mechanisms in coconut. CPCRI,
Kasaragod, 83 p.
11. Chowdappa, P., Jaganathan, D. and Thamban.C. 2016. Empowering stakeholders.
Information Bulletin No. 94. CPCRI, Kasaragod. 36 p.
12. Byju, G., Ravi,V., Sheela, M.N., Jayaprakas, C.A., Suja, G., Veena, S.S., Asha,
K.I.,Ramesh, V., Muthuraj, R., Rejin, D.T., Sunitha, S., Asha Devi, A., Sreekumar, J.,
Jyothi, A.N., Murugesan, P., Mohan, C., Santhosh Mithra, V.S., Harish, E.R.,
Jaganathan, D., Shiny, R., Sajeev, M.S., Shirly Raichal Anil, Makeshkumar, T.,
Jeeva, M.L., Saravanan Raju, Kesava Kumar, H., Vivek Hegde, Koundiniya, A.V.V.
and Sasankan, V.R. 2018. Post-flood loss assessment and rehabilitation of tuber crops
in Kerala. Technical Bulletin Series No. 69, ICAR-Central Tuber Crops Research
Institute, Sreekariyam, Thiruvananthapuram Kerala, 97p.
13. Sivakumar, P. S., Prakash, P., Archana Mukherjee, Jaganathan, D. and Sheela
Immanuel. 2018. Business planning for Agro-technology enterprises, September
2018, ICAR-Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, Sreekariyam,
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. 109p.
14. Sivakumar, P. S., Jaganathan, D. and Sheela Immanuel. 2018. Manual on Advances
in Social and Behavioural Science Research. ICAR- Central Tuber Crops Research
Institute, Sreekariyam, Thiruvananthapuram, 173 p.
15. Sivakumar, P. S., Archana Mukherjee, Jaganathan, D. Sheela Immanuel and Kesava Kumar, H. 2019. Intellectual Property valuation of Agricultural Technologies. ICAR-
Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, Sreekariyam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
110p.
16. Sivakumar, P.S., Anantharaman, M., Sajeev, M. S., Jaganathan, D., Muthuraj, R.,
Krishnakumar, T., Laxminarayana, K. and Sheela Immanuel. 2019. Reinventing the
tubers: Collaborative interventions for transforming tuber crops in North Eastern Hill
States, Technical Bulletin No. 76, ICAR–Central Tuber Crops Research Institute,
Sreekariyam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, 56 p.
17. Sheela Immanuel, Sivakumar, P. S. and Jaganathan, D. 2019. Innovative extension
approaches–Experiences of ICAR-CTCRI. In: Training Manual Feed The Future
India Triangular Training (FTF ITT) programme on Integrated Technology for
Production, Processing and Value Addition in Tuber Crops, 16-30 September 2019,
ICAR-CTCRI, Sreekariyam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. 299-309 pp.
18. Suja, G., Jaganathan, D., Ramesh, V. and Koundinya, A. V. V. 2019. Model
Training Course Manual on Organic Farming for Safe and Sustainable Food Production with Special Focus on Tropical Tuber Crops, 1-8 November 2019, ICAR-CTCRI, Sreekariyam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. 200 p.
19. Sivakumar, P. S., Jaganathan, D., Sheela Immanuel, Muthuraj, R., Kesava Kumar,
H. and Balasubramani, N. 2019. Training Manual on Innovative Extension
Approaches for Horticultural Crops with Special Reference to Tuber Crops, 19-22
November 2019, ICAR-CTCRI, Sreekariyam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. 189 p.
20. Jaganathan, D., Sheela Immanuel, Sivakumar, P.S. and Koundinya, A. V.V. 2019.
Innovative technology transfer approaches for promotion of organic farming in tuber
crops. In: Model Training Course Manual on Organic Farming for Safe and
Sustainable Food Production with Special Focus on Tropical Tuber Crops, 1-8
November 2019, ICAR-CTCRI, Sreekariyam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. 183-
195pp.
21. Byju, G., Veena, S.S., Ramesh, V., Suja, G., Ravi,V., Sunitha, S., Sheela, M.N.,
Jayaprakas, C.A., Sajeev, M.S., Asha Devi, A., Shirly Raichal Anil, Sreekumar, J.,
Makeshkumar, T., Jyothi, A.N., Jeeva, M.L., Murugesan, P., Saravanan Raju,
Mohan, C., Kesava Kumar, H., Asha, K.I., Santhosh Mithra, V.S., Vivek Hegde,
Harish, E.R., Koundinya, A.V.V., Muthuraj, R., Jaganathan, D., Sasankan, V.R.,
Rejin, D.T. and Shiny, R. 2020. Deluge of August 2018 in Kerala state, India:
Changes in soil properties. Technical Bulletin No. 78, ICAR-Central Tuber Crops
Research Institute, Sreekariyam, Thiruvananthapuram Kerala, 32 p.
Awards
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. 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. 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.