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Profile of Dr. Man Mohan Deo

Personal Information

Name : Dr. Man Mohan Deo
Designation : Scientist (Sr. Scale), Division of Crop Production, ICAR-IIPR, Kanpur
Email : mm.deo@icar.org.in
Telephone (Office) : +91 512 2580994-95
Mobile No. : +91-7903710898
Date of joining ICAR : 01st July 2015
Discipline and specialization : Agricultural Engineering
Training/advance exposure in the area of work :
  • Training on “Operation and maintenance of Tractor and Agricultural machinery” from CFMTTI, Budni, Mimistry of Agriculture, DoAC &FW held on 02-06-2008 to 27-06-2008.
  • One month (1-30th June 2009) industrial training on “Survey, Design and Installation of Micro-Irrigation System” in Jain Irrigation Systems Limited.
  • Basic course on “Remote Sensing, Geographical system and Global Positioning System” conducted by IIRS and ISRO from 06-08-2012 to 22-10-12 at ICAR-IARI, New Delhi.
  • Course on “Life Skills and Leadership Development” organized by Division of Agricultural Extension, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi-12 .
  • Three months (16-11-15 to 15-02-16) Professional Attachment training at ICAR-CIAE, Bhopal on “Basic of computer aided designing software (PTC Creo) for farm machinery design, development and testing techniques” during FOCARS-102.
  • Short course on “Engineering interventions in fodder production including management of fodder/ crop-residue and their value addition” from 30th Jan, 2017 to 08th Feb, 2017 at ICAR-IGFRI, Jhansi.
  • Training on “Ergonomical Design Guidelines for Agricultural Tools, Equipment and workplaces” held fromd 29th June -3rd July 2020 at ICAR-CIAE, Bhopal.

Professional Information

Year of professional experience:

10 years as a Scientist, Farm Machinery and Power

Educational Qualification:

Degree / Diploma / Certificate Class / Grade University / Board / Institute Year
Bachelor’s Degree
B. Tech. (Agril. Engg.) 		78.10 %
First Class 		RAU, Pusa 2011
Master’s Degree
M.Tech. (Agril. Engg.) with major in Farm Power and Equipment 		85.60 %
First Class 		Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 2013
Ph.D
Ph.D (Agril. Engg.) with major in Farm Power and Equipment 		81.80 %
First Class 		Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 2022
12. Experience: 8 years
ARS, Scientist (Sr. Scale), Farm Machinery and Power, From 01-07-15 to till date

Area of specialization: Farm Machinery and Power

Design and development of farm machinery for pulses crop, Ergonomics and safety in agriculture, precision agriculture, Pre-and postharvest mechanization of pulses, Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, and Deep learning

Technologies developed

  • Modified IIPR-mini dal mill and developed a Generation-4 (G-4) model of the IIPR mini dal mill (Commercialized).
  • Developed process and methodology for utilization of pulse milling by-product for edible use (As Co-PI of the MoFPI funded project) (Biscuits commercialized).
  • Developed a mechanical manual weeder with a multi-tool bar carrier for pulse crops.
  • Developed a roller contact-type herbicide applicator.
  • Developed protocols for pre-milling treatments of different pulses.
  • Developed CNN-based deep learning models for classification of Yellow Mosaic Disease in Blackgram.
  • Developed an ANN-based forecasting model for rainfall prediction for Bihar state.
  • Designed and developed a mechanical urea briquette applicator for System of Rice Intensification (SRI).
  • Evaluated the performance of coconut dehusker and desheller.
  • Developed a model of tractor–trailer system vibration for safe haulage.
  • Developed an ANN-based model for prediction of tractor–trailer system vibration under varying operating conditions.

Contribution to the scientific advancement

  • Design and Development of mechanical urea briquette applicator for System of Rice Intensification Techniques.
  • Performance Evaluation of Coconut De-husker and De-sheller.
  • Development of devices for determination of physical and engineering properties of pulses.
  • Modelling of Tractor-trailer system vibration for safe haulage.
  • Study on the milling attributes of pulses crop.

Current area of research

  • Modelling of Tractor-trailer system vibration for safe haulage.
  • Development of self-propelled chickpea planter.
  • Determination of milling attributes of pulses and value addition.

Five Best Publications (with NAAS rating)

    • Man Mohan Deo, Dipankar De, Indra Mani, Mir Asif Iquebal (2021). Design and Evaluation of Vertical Cup Metering Mechanism for Urea Briquette Application. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 91(3): 359–363.
    • Man Mohan Deo, Dipankar De, Indra Mani, Mir Asif Iquebal (2021). Development of mechanical urea briquette applicator for SRI. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 91(2): 208–212.
    • Man Mohan Deo, Adarsh Kumar and Indra Mani (2021). Whole-body vibration on driver seat and fender with fully loaded double-axle tractor-trailers under different operating conditions. Journal of AgriSearch, 8(2): 149–154.
    • Man Mohan Deo, A.C. Mathew, M.R. Manikantan and K.B. Hebbar (2020). Performance evaluation of power-operated coconut de-shelling machine for different varieties of coconut. Journal of AgriSearch, 7(3): 154–157.
    • Kashyap, A.S.; Manzar, N.; Nebapure, S.M.; Rajawat, M.V.S.; Deo, M.M.; Singh, J.P.; Kesharwani, A.K.; Singh, R.P.; Dubey, S.C.; Singh, D. (2022). Unraveling Microbial Volatile Elicitors Using a Transparent Methodology for Induction of Systemic Resistance and Regulation of Antioxidant Genes at Expression Levels in Chili against Bacterial Wilt Disease. Antioxidants, 11, 404. https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox11020404

Other publications:

Popular articles: 25, Book Chapters:10, Training manual: 4, Newsletters: 10, Abstract: 10

Awards and Fellowships

  • Junior Research Fellowship for the M.Tech. at ICAR-IARI, New Delhi
  • Qualified SRF with the first rank for the Ph.D. at ICAR-IARI, New Delhi
  • DST-INSPIRE Fellowship (IF-140794)-2014 for Ph.D. (Agricultural Engineering)
  • NET 2014(I) (ASRB, New Delhi) and ARS 2013.
  • Best Poster Award in National web conference on Sustaining pulse production for self-sufficiency and nutritional security in the Pulse WebCon- 2021 organized by held at ISPRD and ICAR-IIPR, Kanpur during February 09-11, 2021.
  • Best article award for the article titled “Farm machinery testing and its importance (22524)” published in 2019 in Agriculture and Food e-Newsletter, 1(12):447-450.
  • Life membership in professional societies: 1. Society of Agricultural Engineers (LM-10890) 2. Indian Society of Pulses Research and Development 3. Indian Society of Plantation Crops 4. Society for the upliftment of rural economy” Membership Id: LM/317/2019
  • Editor of the Journal “International Journal of Engineering Science Research
  • Associate editor of the Journal “Journal of Food Legumes”
  • DGCA-certified drone remote pilot

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