Notice
Events
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Workshop on Public-Private Partnership for Organic Farming in Pune, Maharashtra!
06-01-24
The Director General of ICAR, Visited the DBT-NECAB, AAU, Jorhat01-04-24
Prof. Bidyut Kumar Sarmah delivers the Lead/Invited talk during the International Conference on current trends in Biological Science at Mizoram University24-03-24
Prof. B K Sarmah chaired the review meeting of Tea Network project 3 at TNAU on 22nd March 2024.23-03-24
Educational Workshop organized for the benefits of freshly admitted Post-graduate students of the Assam Agricultural University18-03-24
Hands on training programme on “Production of Biofertilizer & Entrepreneurship Development” w.e.f 02.04.2024 to 12.04.202403-04-24
Celebrating Agricultural Education Day: A Talk on "Artificial Intelligence and its application: Special reference to Agriculture" by Dr. Bidyut Kumar Sarmah at AAU, Jorhat04-12-23
Celebrating Success at Next Gen Preparedness Conference!28-11-23
Director of DBT-NECAB Delivers Insightful Talk on Genome engineering for sustainable agriculture productivity: Initiatives at AAU28-11-23
Condolence Meeting organised on the demise of Professor Thomas Hohn at DBT, AAU, Jorhat14-11-23
Indian Horticulture Congress-202309-11-23
Condolence Program on the death of Dr. M. S. Swaminathan at DBT, AAU (29-09-2023)29-09-23
Mission
Pursue innovative and exploratory research in agricultural biotechnology and crop husbandry through a public–public partnership between the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, and Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, to create competent human resources in the field and support agriculture industry in the NE region.
Core programmes of the Centre
Core Programme | Objectives |
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PROGRAMME I | Genetic improvement of rice for abiotic and biotic stress tolerance using molecular breeding,
especially drought, submergence and bacterial blight disease. SCIENTIFIC TEAM Dr M K Modi (PI) and Dr Sanjay Chetia (PI) Advisors: Dr N K Singh, NIPB and Dr Arvind Kumar, ICRISAT |
PROGRAMME II | Genetic improvement of chickpea using gene technology for resistance to insect pests SCIENTIFIC TEAM Dr Bidyut Kumar Sarmah (Programme leader), Dr Sumita Acharjee (PI), Dr A M Baruah (Co-PI), Dr Sarvjeet Singh, PAU, Ludhiana (Collaborator), Dr Ishwarappa S Katageri, UASD, Karnataka (Collaborator) Advisors: Dr T J V Higgins, CSIRO, Agriculture and Food, Canberra |
PROGRAMME III | Bioprospecting of soil microbes from NE region for acid tolerance genes SCIENTIFIC TEAM Dr Madhumita Barooah (PI) Dr Robin Chandra Boro (Co-PI) Advisors: Dr A Kumar, Dr M V Deshpande |
PROGRAMME IVA | Isolation of novel microbial strains to develop efficient biofertilizer SCIENTIFIC TEAM Dr Rajen Baruah Advisors: Dr M V Deshpande |
PROGRAMME IVB | Isolation of novel microbial strains to develop efficient biopesticides SCIENTIFIC TEAM Dr Popy Bora (PI), Dr P K Borah, Dr B C Nath Advisors: Dr M V Deshpande |
New Network Projects funded by DBT, GoI |
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