Debashis Chakraborty has Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi specializing in Soil Physics, Soil and Water Management and Geoinformatics.
Commencing his career as a Research Scientist, Chakraborty progressed to the position of National Fellow at ICAR. He has been involved in various R&D projects as the Principal Investigator, focusing on LULC dynamics, water and nutrient dynamics and participatory-GIS, and collaborated with IRRI and CIMMYT on long-term experiments and conservation agriculture. Additionally, he has also worked as a post-doctoral fellow Rothamsted Research, UK and at the University of Sydney, Australia under the DFAT fellowship.
Chakraborty is a Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India, and Academy of Science &Technology, West Bengal. Since 2001, Dr Chakraborty has been a PG Faculty of IARI and has supervised Masters, Doctoral, and Post-doc students. He has to his credit 80 research papers with 7627 citations and an h-index of 40, and a book on ‘Fundamentals of GIS’.
Chakraborty specializes in sustainable resource management, focusing on cereal-based, rainfed agricultural systems in South, Central, and West Asia, as well as North Africa. His work involves developing strategies to optimize water, soil, and crop management practices in regions that depend on rainfed agriculture. By addressing challenges such as water scarcity, soil degradation, and climate variability, he aims to enhance the resilience and productivity of these critical farming systems, ensuring long-term sustainability and food security in these areas.