IITKGP

Kishor Goswami

Professor

Humanities and Social Sciences

+91-3222-281770

kishor@hss.iitkgp.ac.in

Responsibilities

  • Head, Humanities & Social Sciences

Research Areas

  • Organic and Natural Farming
  • Value Chain Management
  • Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises
  • Development and Agricultural issues
I am working on areas like Development Economics (informal economy, micro-entrepreneurship, credit risk, technology adoption, gender and trade, women empowerment, poverty, etc.), Agricultural and Resource Economics (Production and efficiency, Organic agriculture, zero budget natural farming, medicinal crop, services demand in wetland), and Economics of Biofuels. My research works are applied in nature involving resurgence of handloom industry in North East India, spacing silk industry in the globalized context and development of women micro-entrepreneurship, economics of organic agriculture and biodiesel, and dynamics of trade-offs between climate friendly crops and food security. 
Research collaborations with international organizations like South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE), Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, USA, and Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic are at various stages.
  • To Grow or Not to Grow? Factors Influencing the Adoption of and Continuation with Jatropha in North East India Goswami K., Choudhury H. K. By Renewable Energy (Elsevier) 81 627-638 (2015)
  • An assessment of economic profitability of black rice (Oryza sativa L. indica) production in Assam, India Goswami K., Thapa D. B., Sandilya J. , Deka N. By Journal of Applied Research on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants 34 - (2023)
  • Determinants of the Adoption of Modern Technology in the Handloom Industry in Assam Bortamuly A. B., Goswami K. By Technological Forecasting and Social Change (Elsevier) 90: 400-409 (2015)
  • Adoption of Modern Weaving Technology in the Handloom Micro-enterprises in Assam: A Double Hurdle Approach Hazarika B., Bezbaruah M. P., Goswami K. By Technological Forecasting and Social Change (Elsevier) 102: 344-356 (2016)
  • Supply Chain Network of Jatropha based Biodiesel Industry in North East India Goswami K., Hazarika A. By Sustainable Production and Consumption (Elsevier) 6 38-50 (2016)
  • Organic Cultivation and Sustainable Value Chain Development for Tea Smallholders: Findings from Assam, India Deka N., Goswami K. By Sustainable Production and Consumption 32 562-579 (2022)
  • Economic Sustainability of Organic Cultivation of Assam Tea Produced by Small-scale Growers Deka N., Goswami K. By Sustainable Production and Consumption (Elsevier) 26 111-125 (2021)
  • What will drive the small tea growers towards environment-friendly cultivation? Implications from the tea sector in Assam, India Deka N., Goswami K. By Climate and Development (Routledge: Taylor & Francis) - (2021)
  • Progress in Agricultural Vulnerability and Risk Research in India: A Systematic Review Das S., Goswami K. By Regional Environmental Change (Springer) 21 - (2021)
  • Energy choice and fuel stacking among rural households of Southern Ethiopia Dumga K. T., Goswami K. By Energy for Sustainable Development 76 - (2023)

Principal Investigator

  • An Assessment of Import Demand for U.S. Millet and Sorghum in Indias Feed Industry
  • Mass-Multiplication, Cultivation, Value Addition, and Popularization of Docynia Indica Among Tribal Communities of Assam and Meghalaya

Ph. D. Students

Abdullah Al Mamun

Area of Research: Development Economics

Balla Jyothirmai

Area of Research: Agricultural Economics

Dipanjan Kashyap

Area of Research: Agri Business Management

Dwiti Baruah Thapa

Area of Research: Development Economics

Gyanprakash Bishi

Area of Research: Agricultural Economics

Jigyasa Sandilya

Area of Research: Environmental Economics

Kassahun Trueha Dumga

Area of Research: Development Economics

Lija Mery Rabha

Area of Research: Development Economics

Partha Pratim Saikia

Area of Research: Development Economics

Plawana Borthakur

Area of Research: Development Economics

Soumik Das

Area of Research: Agricultural management with GIS technology

Supriya Hazarika

Area of Research: Development Economics

Ubaid Mushtaq

Area of Research: Development Studies