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Dr. Umesh Thapa is working as Associate Professor in the Department of vegetable Crops, Faculty of Horticulture, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, and Wet Bengal. He has brilliant career in Horticulture and is deeply attached in the field of Olericulture. Since 1997 he is actively engaged in teaching undergraduate courses both in Faculty of Horticulture and Agriculture and postgraduate in faculty of Horticulture ad Agriculture and postgraduate in faculty of Horticulture in improvement and production related of horticultural crops especially vegetable crops. He has to his credit a number of research papers and popular scientific articles in several scientific journal and magazines. He has experiences of supervising a good number of Ad-hoc schemes financed by Government of West Bengal and private sectors and rendered services as resource person in different programmes. He participated and presented papers in various National and International conferences, seminar, symposium and workshop. He is a life member of various reputed scientific societies and journals. Recently he has attended and presented a paper on International Conferences of European Forum on Agricultural research and development at Zurich, Switzerland. He is the author of book entitled “Varieties of Horticultural Crops.

Sri Pradyumna Tripathy presently working as Traning Associate (Horticulture) Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Orissa university of Agriculture and technology, Orissa. He has a brilliant academic career throughout. He did his B.Sc (Ag) and M.Sc (Ag) in Horticulture from Orissa university of Agriculture and technology, Bhubaneswar. The author secured first class position in his M.Sc. (Ag) Horticulture. The authors has privilege of serving the university as Junior scientist (Horticulture) and Training Associate (Horticulture), contributing to university’s mandate of research, extension and teaching. Several times he has the opportunity of shouldering the additional responsibility of quality planting material production of Horticultural crops under Revolving Funds. The author is the life member of several scientific journals. He has published number of research papers and articles. He has delivered a number of radio talks and imparted training to State Govt. officials and NGO workers in different forums. Attended number of International and National Training courses.