1999 - Present : Associate Professor   (Agricultural Extension) Agricultural Technology Information Centre (ATIC) Kerala Agricultural University, Mannuthy Trissur, Kerala, India Phone : +91 487 2371340 Professional Fields of Expertise Impact Assessment   Developed concepts like Spread Effect and Spread Effect ratios to quantify the impact of extension institutions on the farming community, the results of which has been published in the book Impact Assessment of ATIC Utilised various performance indicators and indices for measuring impact Participatory Rural Appraisal   Experience in working with NGOs, farmers groups and associations and applied qualitative participatory data gathering and analysis techniques such as matrices, mapping, transects, wealth ranking, need assessment, adoption indices and quotients, stakeholder empowerment measurement tools, situational analysis, leadership identification techniques, changes in the technology regime including technology acceptance, rejection, and reinvention Training and development   Training need assessment, Training objective development, curriculum and content development, capacity building methodologies, monitoring and evaluation of training programmes, project budgeting, ex-ante, concurrent and post facto evaluation of projects, completion reports Research – Extension - Farmer Interface   Documentation of farmer centered innovation, farmer managed extension programmes, market driven adaptive research, on farm trials, demonstration programmes, action research, formation of farmer groups for technology exchange, Analysis of policies and interventions of government and national agricultural research and extension systems, Institutional development in the field of agriculture, problem prioritization and reforms with respect to institutions. Technology dissemination and feedback analysis   Technical package development such as educational video, books, booklets, pamphlets, leaflets, use of mass media and appropriate traditional media for information delivery, need assessment and feedback analysis for the research system. Human resource management   Personality development, motivation lab, interpersonal communication skills, group dynamics, management games, conflict management Work Experience (a) Research projects Principal Investigator of the project Farming sytem Informatics funded by the Kerala State Planning Board Principal Investigator of the project- "Impact Assessment of Agricultural Technology Information Centre of the Kerala Agricultural University”, that is a project under National Agricultural Technology Project( NATP), of the ICAR funded by the World Bank Harvest and post harvest technology transfer and evaluation in fisheries, CIFT Cochin:-Project Associate of PI-Dr.S.Balasubramaniam, Sr.Scientist (ICAR Project) Fish productivity levels operational profits and associated variables of small-scale fishermen: - Project Associate of PI - Dr.S.Balasubramaniam, Sr.Scientist. ( ICAR Project) (b) Extension Planning and organising training programmes in entrepreneurship development, methodologies for technology transfer, participatory learning, group dynamics, organizational behaviour, farmer centered extension Planning implementing and monitoring agribusiness projects in seed and seedling production, nursery management, value addition, product diversification among rural women and transfer of marine fishery technology to the fishing community. Target groups with whom interacted Farmers Children Youth Farm and Fisher women Officers of various departments including banks, co-operatives and universities Scientists Facilitators of NGOs (c) Teaching Handling courses such as agricultural extension management, training and development, programme planning and implementation, social psychology, entrepreneurship development, adoption and diffusion of innovations, rural development and HRD concepts for undergraduate and post graduate students of agriculture   1998 - 1999 - Worked for the Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, ICAR, Cochin as Scientist, Extension. EDUCATION Ph.D (Agricultural Extension ) – 1998 Thesis entitled Small- scale Rubber Growers of Kerala – A socio- ecological Impact Analysis Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), Pusa, New Delhi , India Msc( Ag) Extension – 1995 Kerala Agricultural University, Thrissur, Kerala, India B.Sc (Agriculture) – 1993 Kerala Agricultural University, Thrissur, Kerala, India