Indian Institute of Pulses Research

Profile of Dr. Man Mohan Deo

Personal Information

Name	:	Er. Man Mohan Deo
Designation	:	Scientist (Farm Machinery and Power)
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	:	Farm Machinery and Power (ARS, 2013), Design and development of farm machinery, Farm power, Precision agriculture, Ergonomics and safety in agriculture, Post Harvest Technology
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

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.

Publications

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 (Accepted)
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): 208-12.
Man Mohan Deo, A.C. Mathew, M.R. Manikantan and K.B. Hebbar (2020). Performance Evaluation of Semi-automatic Coconut De-husking Machine for West Coast Tall Variety of Coconut. IJCMAS 9(6): 3187-3194
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.
Man Mohan Deo, Dipankar De, Indra Mani, Mir Asif Iquebal (2019) Physical and engineering properties of urea briquettes relevant to design of mechanical applicator. Indian Journal of Chemical Studies 7(3):725-728

Awards and Fellowships

NET 2014(I) (ASRB, New Delhi) and ARS 2013.
ICAR, JRF (8th Rank) for M.Tech (Agricultural Engineering).
DST-INSPIRE Fellowship (IF-140794)-2014 for Ph.D.(Agricultural Engineering).
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.