Dr. (Prof.) Paritosh Bhattacharyya

Dr Paritosh Bhattacharyya, a soil microbiologist, obtained his MSc and PhD degrees in agriculture with specialisation in soil microbiology from Calcutta University. He has 50 years of experience in various government and private institutions, primarily on biofertilisers, organic farming and related aspects. He worked as the Director of Amity Institute Bio organic Research and Study, Amity University at Noida in UP. Prior to that, Dr Bhattacharyya was Director of the National Centre of Organic Farming, Ghaziabad under the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India from 2004 to 2007 and earlier to that Director of the National Biofertiliser Development centre, also under the Ministry of Agriculture, a project with which he was associated from 1989 onwards. He also worked as Additional Commissioner (INM) under the Ministry of Agriculture during 2005 and 2006. Dr Bhattacharyya also contributed as National Coordinator of FAO project on Organic Farming. He has travelled extensively on professional assignments and has published over 100 technical papers and authored / co-authored 10 books on biofertiliser, organic farming and related subjects. He has initiated 3 patents and worked as the Principal Investigator of various scientific projects of DST, Trifed etc. He was the examiner of PhD theses of many universities, (contact: paritoshb.21@gmail.com). Dr. Bhattacharyya is now engaged as Advisor, SCOPE Organic Informatics, Kolkata.