| Designation | Principal Scientist |
| Discipline | Agricultural Extension |
| Division | Social Sciences Division |
| Specialization | Agriculture communication and extension management |
| Phone | +91- 044 – 24618817 Ext: 120 |
| m.kumaran@icar.gov.in, mariappankumaran@gmail.com | |
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- Brief Profile
- Research areas
- Current Research Projects
- Recognition (National & International)
- Best 5 Publications during the Career
- Best 3 Publications during last 3 years
Completed Post Graduation in the discipline of Agricultural Extension from the Faculty of Agriculture, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu in 1994. Subsequently, completed Doctoral studies and research (Ph.D) at the Division of Agricultural Extension, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI, New Delhi) in 1998. Joined as scientist in ICAR- CIBA, Chennai in 1998 and since then working in CIBA for the past 23 years. During service, completed additional qualifications: Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the IGNOU in 2007 and a Post Graduate Diploma in Marine Aquaculture Management in 2006 from the CAS, Marine Biology, Annamalai University. Handled 15 externally funded projects of which six as Principal Investigator and nine as Co-Principal Investigator. He has coordinated more than 150 extension programmes on various aspects of brackishwater aquaculture covering all the coastal states of India. Had overseas visits to Thailand and Srilanka as part of international research assignments. Guided three doctoral research programmes under the University of Madras. He has authored more than 150 research publications of which 60 are in international and national level peer-reviewed journals.
- Pragmatic extension approaches for sustainable brackishwater aquaculture development.
- Smart aquaculture extension through application of ICT tools.
- Climate change risk assessment, vulnerability and adaptations for resilience.
- Human Resource Development for sustainable aquaculture.
| No | Title | Funded By |
| 1 | Development and Validation of Smart Aquaculture Model (SAM): Application of ICT and Data analytics for sustainable shrimp aquaculture | NASF, ICAR |
| 2 | National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) | NICRA, ICAR |
| 3 | Pragmatic extension approaches for sustainable brackishwater aquaculture | ICAR-CIBA |
- Bestowed with National Swami Sahajanand Saraswati Outstanding Extension Scientist of NARS-2017 Award by the ICAR for the exceptional contributions in the field of Fisheries/Aquaculture Extension.
- Conferred with Fellow Award by the Indian Society of Extension Education, New Delhi for the outstanding contributions in the field of Extension Education in 2018.
- Organising Secretary, National Brackishwater Aquaculture Farmers Conclave (BAFAC)-2019 at Chennai & BAFAC- 2020 at Surat.
- Conferred K.Chidambaram Memorial Annual Award -2007 for the commendable contributions made in the field of Fisheries Extension by the Fisheries Technocrats Forum, Chennai.
- Best paper award – 2020 from the International Journal of Farm Sciences for the paper: Alagappan. M and M.Kumaran.2020. Assessment of information seeking behaviour and constraints in obtaining information of public and private aquaculture extension personnel, International Journal of Farm Sciences 10(1): 104-114.
- IARI Senior Research Fellowship (1995-1998) for Doctoral research in Agricultural Extension.
- ICAR Junior Research Fellowship (1992-94) for Post-Graduation in Agricultural Extension.
- Kumaran M, Sundaram M, Mathew S, Anand PR, Ghoshal TK, Kumararaja P, Anandaraja R, Anand S, Vijayan KK. Is Pacific white shrimp (Penaeus vannamei) farming in India sustainable? A multidimensional indicators-based assessment. Environment, Development and Sustainability. 2021 Apr; 23(4):6466-80.
- Kumaran M. Partnership with Aqua Consultants-A Pragmatic Approach for an Effective Aquaculture Extension Service, Indian Journal of Extension Education. 2016; 52(3and4):40-6.
- Kumaran M, Vimala DD, Chandrasekaran VS, Alagappan M, Raja S. Extension approach for an effective fisheries and aquaculture extension service in India. The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension. 2012 Jun 1; 18(3):247-67.
- Kumaran M, Krishnan M, Ravichandran P. Extension services in coastal aquaculture: need for a public and private partnership. Indian Journal of. Fisheries. 2007 Jan; 54(1):75-83.
- Kumaran M, Ponnusamy K, Krishnan M. Utilization of information sources by shrimp farmers. Indian Journal of Extension Education. 2004; 40(1-2):63-6.
- Kumaran M, Vasagam KK, Kailasam M, Subburaj R, Anand PR, Ravisankar T, Sendhilkumar R, Santhanakumar J, Vijayan KK. Three-tier cage aquaculture of Asian Seabass (Lates calcarifer) fish in the coastal brackishwaters-A techno-economic appraisal. Aquaculture. 2021 Oct 15; 543:737025.
- Kumaran M, Geetha R, Antony J, Vasagam KK, Anand PR, Ravisankar T, Angel JR, De D, Muralidhar M, Patil PK, Vijayan KK. Prospective impact of Corona virus disease (COVID-19) related lockdown on shrimp aquaculture sector in India–a sectoral assessment. Aquaculture. 2021 Jan 30; 531:735922.
- Kumaran, T. K. Ghoshal, Debasis De, Gouranga Biswas, R.Ananda Raja, P. S. Anand, A. Panigrahi and K. K.Vijayan.2019. Aquaculture-based production systems for the livelihood security of coastal farm families in the risk-prone agro-ecosystem of India: an appraisal, Aquaculture International, 28:805–814.