Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
M.S. Swaminathan School of Agriculture
 
Department: DEPARTMENT OF SOIL SCIENCE AND AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Phone: 8984545518 / 9434958831
 

About Me
Dr. Limbraj Parshuram Pholane completed his Ph.D. from IIT, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India and M.Sc. from Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani, Maharashtra, India. He has more than 10 years of working experience in different projects sponsored.by various GOI organizations and departments like ICAR, ISRO, and MNRE. His research interest includes the sustainable management of natural resources under changing climate focusing on its impacts on plants and soils ecosystems, particularly, nitrogen and water dynamics under diversified rice-based cropping systems.

Prior to joining CUTM, Dr. Pholane served as a Project Officer at the Biogas Development and Training Centre, IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India, for the past decade. He was responsible for providing technical support and conducting training programs on Biogas Technology for various stakeholders like staff of the State Nodal Departments, Implementing Agencies, Banks, NGOs, Women's Organizations, Entrepreneurs, Panchayats, and Biogas Users in the West Bengal state under MNRE's 'National Biogas and Manure Management Program'.
 
Research Fields

  • Water and Nitrogen dynamics in vadose zone
  • Natural Resources Management for sustainable Agriculture
  • Anaerobic Digestion and Bio-energy

Teaching

  • Fundamentals of Soil Science
  • Problem Soils and Their Management
  • Manures Fertilizers and soil fertility management
  • Soil Chemistry
  • Soil Mineralogy Genesis Classification and Survey
  • Management of Problem Soils and Waters
  • Physical chemistry of soil

Expertise

  • Nitrogen and Water Dynamics under rice based cropping systems
  • Natural Resources Management
  • Biogas Plants

Interests

  • Natural Farming
  • Biogas Technology
  • Waste management
  • Rural community empowerment through diversified and sustainable Agriculture

 
   

Research Fields

The spatial heterogeneity and temporal variability of rainfall in Eastern India lads to differential surface flooding and runoff which causes soil erosion and nutrient losses polluting water bodies and groundwater on one hand and water scarcity at the critical crop growth stages on the other. So the research was undertaken to study the impact of the variable ponding on the dynamics of water and NO3- - nitrogen in rainfed rice based cropping system with the lined and unlined on-farm reservoir (OFR) systems. The study revealed that adoption of the unlined OFR system without allowing any ponding in the field is economical more viable. But, one can go for the lined OFR system without any ponding in the field which is also economically viable system so as to check groundwater contamination and hence protecting the environment. The study is helpful for conservation of natural resources and sustainable production of rainfed rice-mustard cropping system with variable quantity of rainwater harvested in the OFR.