KADIRI BABURAO

Working Experience

• Senior Project Associate in CSIR – Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore.
• Assistant Professor July, 2022 – January, 2023. Department of Post Harvest Technology. J C Diwakar Reddy Horticultural College, Tadipatri.
• Development and assessment of polyherbal formulation for anti-diabetic and beta-cell regeneration activity in diabetes induced rats.
• Standardization of pre-treatments for quality improvement in raisins and dehydrated fig.
• National Eligibility Test conducted by Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board, New
  Delhi, on 29-Dec – 2018.
• Best oral presentation award in the theme of Post Harvest Management and value addition organized by Department of Horticulture, National Conference on “Arid fruits: A way forward for sustainable production and nutritional security, 28th to 30th November-2019, University of
  Agricultural Sciences, Raichur, Karnataka, India.

SKILLS

• Physico-chemical analysis (moisture, water activity, textural properties, total soluble solids, titratable acidity, phenols, antioxidants, tannins, crude fiber, total ash, ascorbic acid and flavonoids).
• Microbial analysis(Bacteria, yeast and mould).
• Mass production of bio-control agent (Trichoderma harzianum).
• Blood serum analysis (glucose, triglycerides, total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein, low-density lipoprotein, very high-density protein, total protein, alkaline phosphatase and lipid peroxidase).

CONFERENCES

• National Conference on “Arid fruits: A way forward for sustainable production and nutritional security.
• Interactive PG Poster Seminar on Post Graduate Research.
•  National Seminar on “Horticulture for sustainable Development, Nutritional and Livelihood Security.”
• National Virtual Conference on “Post-Harvest Management: Concepts, Challenges and Prospects (PHM-2022)” organized by department of Academics and Human Resource Development. National Institute of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management- Thanjavur (NIFTEM-T).

PUBLICATIONS

• Study on fruit preparation on quality of fig fruits (cv. Bellary) osmotic-dehydrated under solar tunnel dryer.
• Effect of storage period on organoleptic evaluation of raisins under refrigerated condition. 
• Effect of storage on water activity and microbial count of dehydrated fig (cv. Bellary) under ambient condition.
• Influence of storage period on colour quality parameters of raisins.
• Influence of pre-treatments on sensory properties of raisins.
• Influence of pre-treatment on total soluble solids, titratable acidity and sugars of raisin.
• “Standardization and microbial quality assessment of antidiabetic polyherbal formulations.” 
• Grafting in brinjal (Solanum melongena L.): a sustainable way of increasing the yield.
• Evaluation of physical and functional properties of weaning food blended with banana, sweet potato and drumstick leaves powder.
• Formulation and acceptability of blended weaning food by incorporating banana, sweet potato and drumstick leaves powder.
• “Identification of elite jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.) genotypes for fruit characters, bulb characters and biochemical parameters in Doddaballapur and Tumkur districts of Karnataka, India (in Indian province of Karnataka).”