Surendranath Pasupalak received double bonanza for his professional competence and contribution towards the farming community. 

Professor Pasupalak was honored with Rashtriya Gaurav Award and Glory of India Gold Medal here on 5 March. 

The OUAT farm science professor who has harped for professional excellence and popularizing agromet science in the farming community has earned international acclaim for setting worthy example inspiring others towards remarkable achievement. 

Professor Pasupalak was honoured with International Institute of Success Awareness’s “Glory of India Gold Medal” for success in promoting progress and prosperity of the farming community. 

He, did his PG at G B Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar. 

At the University of Saskatchewan, Canada as a Commonwealth Fellow, he started a grassroots program to help farmers improve their farm productivity. 

He through the knowledge and skill on weather forecasting and agromet advisory on regular basis to such an accuracy that it brought acceptance and faith of the farming community of the state and general public at large on the weather science. 

Tending to the needs of farmers, counseling program through electronic and print media is done regularly on real time basis for the entire state. 

Professor Pasupalak said that the awards provide a platform to further his efforts to improve quality of life of the farming community of the state.

“The recognition is excellent, but it’s also a reminder to enlarge the small step taken so far such as to make a real impact in preparing the small and marginal farmers managing risk of the climate change of the 21st century,” he said. 

Earlier in 2009 he was honoured Dr Balakrishna Pattanaik Memmorial Lecture Award by Bigyana Prachar Samiti, Cuttack established in 1949 and one of the oldest professional bodies of India. 

Presently Prof Pasupalak is involved in research on climate change impact on agriculture in Odisha and developing adaptation and mitigation measures, particularly for rice based cropping systems for various scenarios of seasonal weather “to reduce vulnerability of poor farmers and maintain sustainable productivity of rice in the eastern India under climate change”.