Dr. Maneesha S.R.

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Name	Dr. Maneesha S.R.
Designation	Scientist (Sr. Scale)
Discipline	Fruit Science
Qualification	Ph.D.
Specialisation	Tropical fruit crops especially, Kokum; medicinal and aromatic crops; Agro- Eco Tourism
Contact	Maneesha.sr@icar.gov.in sr.maneesha@gmail.com Mobile: 7397886968 Whats App: 8903868129
Areas of Interest	Genetic resource management and crop improvement
Research Experience	Worked as Scientist (Fruit Science) in ICAR-Central Coastal Agricultural Research Institute, Old Goa from 1.4.2015 to 30.08.2022. Joined ICAR-IISR, Calicut on 31.08.2022 and continuing.

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Research Publications

Research Publications:

RESEARCH ARTICLES (10)

Maneesha S. R., S. Desai, S. Priya Devi and M. J. Gupta. 2022. Estimation of Crop Water Requirement of Pineapple (Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.) for Drip Fertigation. International Journal of Bio-resource and Stress Management. 13(9):973-980. (NAAS rating: 5.11).
Maneesha S. R, S. Priya Devi, R. M. Vijayakumar, K. Soorianathasundaram, D. Selvi and P. Jeyakumar.2022. Response of pineapple to fertigation and flower induction in red laterite soil. Indian J. Hort. 79(1), March 2022: 62-68.
Parveen Kumar, A.R. Desai, V. Arunachalam , M.J. Gupta, V. Paramesha, R. Solomon Rajkumar, S.R. Maneesha, G.B. Sreekanth, G.R. Mahajan, Sujeet Desai, D. Shishira and Aviprit Vijay Janjal.2021. A conceptual framework for agro–ecotourism development for livelihood security. Indian Journal of Agronomy 66 (5th IAC Special issue). 184-190.
Maneesha S.R., P.Vidula, V.A. Ubarhande and E.B. Chakurkar. 2021. Astrologically Designed Medicinal Gardens of India. International Journal of bioresources and stress management. 12(2): 108-120.
Maneesha S.R. and S. Priya Devi. 2019. Effect of Calcium Nitrate and Potassium Nitrate priming on seed germination and seedling vigour of papaya (Carica papaya L.). Journal of Horticulture Sciences. 14(2): 149-154.
Maneesha. S.R., S. Priya Devi and N.P. Singh. 2019. ‘Kulagar’- A potential system to conserve crop diversity. Indian Journal of Plant Genetic Resources. 32(2): 135-140.
Maneesha. S.R., S. Priya Devi, R.M. Vijayakumar and K. Soorianathasundaram. 2019. Cost Benefit Analysis of Drip Fertigation and Flower Induction in Pineapple (Ananascomosus (L.) Merr.) variety ‘Giant Kew’ in Goa, India. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences. 8(4): 2010-2019.
Maneesha. S. R., S. Priya Devi, R.M. Vijayakumar and K. Soorianathasundaram. 2019. Effect of fertigation on vegetative growth of pineapple (Ananascomosus (L.) Merr.) variety ‘Giant Kew’. International Journal of Chemical Studies. 7(3): 28-32.
Maneesha. S. R., S. Deepika and L. Preethy. 2019. Preparation and properties of herbal extract blended pineapple Ready To Serve. Journal of Agrisearch. 6(1): 34-37.
Maneesha S.R. and S. Priya Devi. 2018. Effect of Calcium nitrate treatments on seed germination and seedling vigour of papaya (Carica papaya L.). Agric INTERNATAIONAL. 5(1): 1-4.
Maneesha S.R. and K. Soorianathasundaram. 2017. Evaluation of yield and yield contributing characters of F2 population of papaya (Carica Papaya L.) under Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu conditions. International Journal of Farm Sciences. 7(3): 43-48.

POPULAR ARTICLES (2)

Parveen Kumar, V. Arunachalam, V. Paramesha and S. R. Maneesha. 2021. Diversified multitier cropping systems. Indian Farming 71(11): 32–36.
Maneesha S.R., G. B. Sreekanth, S. Rajkumar and E. B. Chakurkar. 2019. Urban farming –Emerging trends and scope. Indian farmer. 6(11): 709-717.

BOOKS/ TRAINING MANUALS (3)

Desai, A.R. and Maneesha S.R. 2020. Training manual on Turmeric production, processing and marketing held at ICAR –CCARI during 09-13 March, 2020.
R. S. Rajkumar, M. Thangam, S. R. Maneesha, E.B. Chakurkar and N. P. Singh. 2016. Training manual of short course on Agro eco tourism: An emerging enterprise for agricultural diversification. 31^st October to 9^th November, 2016.
Safeena, S.A., Maneesha S.R., M. Thangam and N.P. Singh. 2016. Training manual of 21 days training programme on Nursery management in Horticultural crops from 2^nd July to 16^th August, 2016.

BOOK CHAPTERS (5)

Maneesha, S.R., Pitre, V., Ubarhande, A.V., Devidas, R., Desai, S., Chakurkar, E.B.(2022). Dhanvantari Vatika- A Model Herbal Garden for an Agro- Ecotourism Unit. In: Lama, T., Burman, D.,Mandal, U.K., Sarangi, S.K., Sen, H.(eds) Transforming Coastal Zone for Sustainable Food and Income Security. Springer, Cham.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95618-9_15.
S.R. Maneesha and G.R. Mahajan. 2022. Soil nutrient management in Horticulture based cropping systems of West coast of India. Natural Resource Management in Horticultural Crops. Subhra Saikat Roy, Poonam Kashyap and Tarun Adak (Eds.). Today & Tomorrow’s Printers and Publishers, New Delhi - 110 002. pp.231-249.
N.P. Singh, S.R. Maneesha, R.S. Rajkumar and M. Thangam. 2016. Introduction and concept of Agro Eco Tourism (AET) models. In training manual of Short course on Agro eco tourism: An emerging enterprise for agricultural diversification. 31^st October to 9^th November, 2016.p:1-4.
Maneesha S.R. 2016.Canopy management in fruit crops under AET. In training manual of Short course on Agro eco tourism: An emerging enterprise for agricultural diversification. 31^st October to 9^th November, 2016.p:55-59.
Maneesha S.R. 2020. ICTs in Turmeric production. In: Manual of ‘Turmeric production, processing and marketing’ training held at ICAR –CCARI during 09-13 March, 2020.

TECHNICAL BULLETIN (1)

Maneesha S.R., Safeena SA, Solomon Rajkumar, V Arunachalam and Parveen Kumar. 2022. Plants of Dhanvantari Vatika- A catalogue of medicinal and aromatic plants available at ICAR-CCARI, Old Goa. Technical Bulletin 72. ICAR- Central Coastal Agricultural Research Institute. Ela, Old Goa, Goa-403 402.

EXTENSION FOLDERS (6)

Maneesha S.R. 2018. Aloe Vera. Extension folder no. 83/2018. ICAR- CCARI, Old Goa- 403 402.
Maneesha S.R. 2018. Chekkurmanis. Extension folder no. 84/2018. ICAR- CCARI, Old Goa- 403 402.
Maneesha S.R. 2018. Andrographis. Extension folder no. 85/2018. ICAR- CCARI, Old Goa- 403 402.
Maneesha S.R. 2018.Lemongrass. Extension folder no. 86/2018. ICAR- CCARI, Old Goa- 403 402.
Maneesha S.R. 2018.Stevia. Extension folder no. 87/2018. ICAR- CCARI, Old Goa- 403 402.
Desai, A.R., Maneesha S.R., Prabhu, H.R.C. and Bhat, S. 2021. Mango Production Technology. Extension folder no: 102/21. ICAR- CCARI, Old Goa- 403 402

Awards

Awards:

Best oral presentation award in National seminar on spices: Emerging trends in production, processing and marketing on 21-22, January, 2020 at ICAR-CCARI, Goa.

Peerless poster award in the National conference on fruit breeding for Tropics and Subtropics: An Indian perspective, held during April 26-29, 2016 at ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru on “Analysis of Simple Sequence Repeats (SSR) polymorphism in mango (Mangifera indica L.) varieties of Goa”
Best poster award in Second Agricultural Graduate Students Conference, held during 06-07 May, 2014 at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore on “Evaluation of papain content and papain activity of selected progenies of segregating population of Papaya (Carica papaya L.)”.
“Inspire fellowship” of Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology in 2014.
First rank in M.Sc. (Hort.) in Fruit Science from T.N.A.U., Coimbatore in 2013.
Third rank in B.Sc. (Hons.) Ag. from K.A.U., Thrissur in 2011.