• Organic Farming
• Integrated Farming System

• ICAR Technology Certificate: Cotton-Based Integrated Farming Systems (IFS) Model specifically designed for rainfed dry sub-humid ecosystems
• ICAR Technology Certificate: Management of Rice fallows of North Eastern hill region for enhancing system productivity
• ICAR Technology Certificate: Organic package of practices for major crops cultivated in North Eastern region of India
• District Action Plans for all 10 districts of Maharashtra (Akola, Amravati, Wardha, Yavatmal, Beed, Jalna, Nanded, Jalgaon, Nandurbar and Ahilya Nagar) were prepared and submitted to funding agency
• ICAR-CICR 21 Bt Cotton variety identified for the Central zone states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat under rainfed conditions
• ICAR-CICR 25 Bt Cotton variety identified for the South zone states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu under rainfed conditions
• ICAR-CICR Bt Cotton 40 (ICAR-CICR PKV 081 Bt) Cotton variety identified for the South zone states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu under rainfed conditions
• Co-developer of Integrated cotton App and Member, committee for updating Cotton App. (App available on Google Play Store for Android)
• Standardized canopy management techniques in HDPS cotton to enhance the productivity
• Contributed to a low-cost indigenous brush and rubber bat type cotton stripper developed at ICAR-CIAE, Bhopal

• 81^st Plenary Meeting of International Cotton Advisory Committee, held at Mumbai during 2-5 December, 2023
• International conference held at KVK, ICAR-CCARI, Goa organized by CRDA, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana during 13-15 November, 2024
• 9^th Asian Cotton Research and Development Network (ACRDN) Meeting & International Conference on “Innovations for a resilient and sustainable cotton production and viable value chain” at ICAR-CIRCOT, Mumbai, Maharashtra, INDIA during December 06-08, 2023
• International Conference on “Sustainable and Resilient Environment Development 2023” in Nagpur during 17-18 February, 2023

6^th International Agronomy Congress on “Re-envisioning Agronomy for Smart Agri-food Systems and Environmental Stewardship” at ICAR-IARI, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, India during November 24–26, 2025

TRAINING CONDUCTED

• Course director: Seven-day training on ‘Improved cotton cultivation technologies’ during 13-21 February, 2024 at CICR-KVK, Nagpur.
• Course director: Five-day training on ‘Integrated crop management practices in Kharif season’ during 26-30 August, 2024 at CICR-KVK, Nagpur.
• Course director: Five-day training on ‘Integrated crop production technology’ during 10-16 July, 2024 at CICR-KVK, Nagpur. 

Convener for conducting various technical sessions in farmers workshop in Agrovision Exhibition: 2021 during 24-27 December, 2021

• Certificate of Appreciation for significant contribution in Technology Park Demonstration on 47^th ICAR-CICR Foundation Day held on 01.04.2023
• Best Research Paper Award- 2022 from Indian Association of Soil and Water Conservationists for research paper- Ramkrushna, G.I., Das, A., Layek, J., Verma, B.C., Babu, S., Mohapatra, K.P. and Shahane, A.A. 2022. Assessing maize based cropping systems for higher productivity and income under shifting cultivation in eastern Indian Himalayas. Indian Journal of Soil Conservation 50(2): 101-106.

RESEARCH ARTICLES (not more than 10)

• Das, S., Das, A., Ramkrushna, G.I., Layek, J., Thakuria, D., Sarkar, D., Bhupenchandra, I., Lal, R., Chowdhury, S., Babu, S., and Debbarma, K. 2023. Liming and micronutrient application improves soil properties and productivity of the groundnut-rapeseed cropping system in an acidic Inceptisol of India’s eastern Himalayas. Land Degradation & Development, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.4713.
• Layek J., Das, A., Mishra, V.K., Lal, R., Krishnappa, R., Hazarika, S., Mohapatra, K.P., Ansari, M.A., Pramanick, B., Kumar, M., Ramkrushna, G.I., Saha, S., Babu, S. and Tahashildar, M. 2023. Improved agronomic practices and high yielding rice varieties maintain soil health and enhance yield and energy use efficiency under shifting cultivation landscapes of eastern Himalayas. Land Degradation & Development, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.4807.
• Ramkrushna G.I., Das, A., Sungoh, H., Layek, J., Mandal, S., Verma, B.C., Lal, R., Rangappa, K., Babu, S., and Hazarika, S. 2023. Can biochar conserve soil moisture and improve soil properties for sustainable intensification of acid soils in the Eastern Indian Himalayas? Land Degradation & Development, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.4981
• Kencharaddi H., Ramkrushna, G.I.,  Pavan Kumar, S.T., Marak S., Vastrad, J., Wanniang, S.K., Rajappa, J.J., Santosh, H. B. 2024. Present status and prospects on conservation and promotion of Comilla cotton (Gossypium arboreum race cernuum) cultivation in the Garo hills region of Northeastern India. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10722-024-01959-8.
• Arude, V.G., Shukla, S.K., Deshmukh, P.S., Satankar, V., Potdar, R.R., Pandirwar, A.P., Senthilkumar, T., Ramkrushna, G.I., Majumdar, G. and Raja, R. 2024. Validation of Field Performance of Commercial hand held Mechanical Cotton Picker at Nagpur Region for Assessing its Effectiveness for Smallholder Farmers. Journal of Cotton Research and Development 38(2): 243-251.
• Venugopalan, M.V., Ramkrushna, G.I.*, Santosh, H.B., Bagadkar, A.J. and Singh, S.B. 2025. Optimizing the planting density of Bt. cotton varieties for rainfed vertisols of central India. Indian Journal of Agronomy 70(1): 67-73. DOI: 10.59797/ija.v70.i1.5583. (NAAS 2025: 5.21)
• Pukhrambam, M., Tribhuvan, K.U., Paul, V., Pandey, A., Dutta, A., Bhadana, V.P., Dabas, S., Ramakrushna, G.I., Raghavendra, K.P., Verma P., Prasad, Y.G., Mohanty, A.K., Rakshit, S. and Sarkar, M. 2025. De Novo Genome Assembly and Annotation of the Arunachali Yak. Scientific Data 12:1027. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05362-5. (NAAS 2025: 11.8)
• Venugopalan, M.V., Ramkrushna, G.I.*, and Bagadkar, A.J. 2025. Planting Date and Plant Density Effects on the Performance of Contemporary Asiatic Diploid Cotton (Gossypium arboretum L.) Genotypes on Rainfed Vertisol and Vertic Inceptisol Soils. The Journal of Cotton Science 29:16–25 (WCRC-8 Special Issue: Agronomy & Soils).
• Ramanjaneyulu, A.V., Sainath, N., Swetha, D., Sravanthi, D., Sudarshanam, A., Ramprasad, B. and Ramkrushna G.I. 2025. Boosting productivity, profitability and energy efficiency in rainfed cotton through mechanization in Alfisols. Journal of Environmental Biology 46(6): 918-925.

Babu, S., Singh, R., Mohapatra, K.P., Rathore, S.S., Kumar, S., Das, A., Ramkrushna, G.I., Yadav, D., Kumar, A., Layek, J., Panwar, A.S. and Singh, V.K. 2026. Assessment of Organic Carbon Stock and Soil Organic Carbon Fractions Across Different Cropping Systems in the Red and Laterite Soils of Meghalaya, India. Land Degradation & Development, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.70445

• Das, A., Saha, S., Layek, J., Babu, S., Saxena, R., Ramkrushna, G.I. 2023. Agricultural Technologies. In: Ghosh, P.K., Das, A., Saxena, R., Banerjee, K., Kar, G., Vijay, D. (Eds) Trajectory of 75 years of Indian Agriculture after Independence. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7997-2_4.
• Ramkrushna, G.I., Venugopalan, M.V. and Prasad, Y.G. 2023. Organic cotton cultivation in India: Current status, challenges and opportunities. In: Pathak D, Singh S, Kumar H, Grover G and Kaur N (Eds.) Cotton: Some Insights. The Crop Improvement Society of India, Ludhiana, India. pp. 141-149 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8298304.
• Pande R. and Ramkrushna GI 2023. Other Honey Bee Products Chapter-V In: Akoijam R, Ningombam A, Beemrote A, Roy SS, Singh NA, Singh AR, RS Telem, Sharma SK, Sonia Ch and Singh I M. 2023. A Guide to Bee-keeping and Honey Processing for Small Scale Honeypreneurs. 122 pages. ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Umiam, Meghalaya, India pp 54.
• Pande R. and Ramkrushna GI 2023. Honey Extraction and Processing Techniques for Better Yield and Quality. Chapter-VII. In: Akoijam R, Ningombam A, Beemrote A, Roy SS, Singh NA, Singh AR, RS Telem, Sharma SK, Sonia Ch and Singh I M. 2023. A Guide to Bee-keeping and Honey Processing for Small Scale Honeypreneurs. 122 pages. ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Umiam, Meghalaya, India pp 86.
• Gudadhe, N.N., Babu, S., Singh, R., Ramkrushna, G.I., Pandey, A., Devi, K., Nayak, D. and Kumar, S. 2024. Agroecological Approaches for Sustainable Intensification. In: Babu, S., Singh, R., Rathore, S.S., Das, A., Singh, V.K. (eds) Agricultural Diversification for Sustainable Food Production. Springer, Singapore. pp 369–387. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7517-0_15.

International

• Oral Presentation on “Canopy management techniques in HDPS cotton to enhance the productivity” at international conference held at KVK, ICAR-CCARI, Goa organized by CRDA, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana during 13-15 November, 2024
• Oral presentation on “Long linted Gossypium arboreum – a viable alternative to meet organic cotton demand” in 9^th Asian Cotton Research and Development Network (ACRDN) Meeting & International Conference at ICAR-CIRCOT, Mumbai, Maharashtra during December 06-08, 2023
• Lead talk at the International Conference on “Sustainable and Resilient Environment Development 2023” in Nagpur during 17-18 February, 2023

National (See the format below)Oral presentations on कपास की उच्च उत्पादकता के लिए सघन रोपण प्रणाली (HDPS) at National Conference on “भारत में कपास की चुनाई के यांत्रिकरण को सफलता पूर्वक अपनानाने के लिए चुनौतियां और रणनीतियाँ” held at ICAR-CIRCOT, Mumbai, Maharashtra, INDIA during 27^th September, 2024

• Life Member, Indian Society of Agronomy, New Delhi
• Life Member, Indian Society for Cotton Improvement, Mumbai

• Vivek Shah, Chinna Babu Naik. Krushi ke Nashi Kito ke Prabandhan ke Liye Pratikarshan-Aakarshan Karyaniti. Kapasika. 2022. 56-57.
• Prabhulinga T., Vivek Shah, Neelakanth Hiremani, Babasaheb Fand. Makdi Vish: Nashikeet Prabandhan Ke Liye Ek Adbhut Jeev Vish. Kapasika. 2022. 60-61.
• Chinna Babu Naik, Vivek Shah, Prabhulinga T. Kapas ko Gulabi Sundi se kaise bachaye?. Kapasika. 2022. 52-53.
• Prabhulinga T., Shivaji Thube, Rachna Pande and Vivek Shah. Cotton thrips, Thrips tabaci Linnaeus aur iska prabandhan. Kapasika. 2023.38-39.

• Nodal Officer for coordination and monitoring Special Project on Cotton in Alirajpur, Dhar, Jhabua and Ratlam districts of Madhya Pradesh and Akola district of Maharashtra
• Participated and showcased CICR’s innovative technologies at the 81st Plenary Meeting of International Cotton Advisory Committee, held at Mumbai during 2-5 December, 2023