Awards (if any)

• Visiting Faculty with Agricultural and Biological Engineering Dept.,  PSU, State College, Pennsylvania, USA (2004-2005).

   

Publications

Research Papers

Lee, J., Gupta, M.J., Lopes, J. and Pascall, M.A. 2007. Efficacy of two acidic sanitizers for microbial reduction on metal can and low density polyethylene film surfaces. J. Food Sci. 72(8): 335-339.

Gupta M.J., Joseph Irudayaraj. 2006.Identification and Quantification of Foodborne Pathogens in Different Food Matrices using FT-IR and Artificial Neural Networks. Transactions of the ASABE, vol. 49(4): 1249-1255. 

Gupta M.J., Joseph Irudayaraj, Chitrita Debroy, Ze’ev Schmilovitch, Amos Mizrach.2005. Detection and Differentiation of Food Pathogens using FTIR and Artificial Neural Networks. Transactions of the ASAE. Vol. 48(5): 1889-1892. 

Singh, A.K., Gupta M.J., R. Shrivastava and T. K. Behera (2005). Effect of NPK on growth and yield of tomato hybrids under multi-span polyhouse. Indian J. Horticulture, 62(1): 91-93.

Joseph Irudayaraj, Chen Xu Yu, Gupta  M. J., and  Subramanian Anand. 2004. Optical sensors for food pathogen and hazardous chemical agent detection for ISS and planetary outpost.  SAE transactions. 113(1):1316-1320.

Gupta M.J., Joseph Irudayaraj and Chitrita Debroy. 2004. Spectroscopic quantification of bacteria using Artificial Neural Networks. J Food Prot. 67(11):2550-54.

Singh, Awani Kumar; Singh, Arun Kumar; Gupta, M.J. and Ranjan Shrivastava (2004). Effect of variety and spacing on growth, yield and economics of capsicum under greenhouse conditions. Progressive Horticulture, 36(2): 321-330.

Gupta M.J. and Pitam Chandra. 2002. Effect of greenhouse design parameters on conservation of energy for greenhouse environment control. Energy, 27(8): 777-794.

Singh, Awani Kumar; Singh, Arun Kumar; Chandra Pitam and Gupta, M.J. 2001. Effect of urea doses on growth and fruit yield of strawberry (Fragaria xananassa duch) cv. Chandler cultivated in greenhouse. Progressive Horticulture. 33 (2): 154-159.

Awani Kumar Singh; Singh, Arun Kumar; Gupta, M.J and Chandra, Pitam. 2002 Effect of fertilizer dose On Fruit Yield and Economics of Off- Season Cucumber Cultivation under low cost polyhouse. New Botanist. XXIX: 67-73.

Pitam Chandra and M.J.Gupta. 2000. Energy requirement for greenhouse cultivation. Agricultural Engineering Today, Vol. 24 (2): 63-70.

Conference papers:

 Gupta, M.J. and Irudayaraj, J.M. 2006. Direct differentiation and quantification of food pathogens in apple juice by FTIR spectroscopy. Presented in the 40th ISAE convention held at TNAU, Coimbatore during 19 – 21 January.

Gupta, M.J., Pitam Chandra and A.K. Singh .2005. An energy conserving greenhouse for cold climatic conditions of India. In: International Conference on Plasticulture and Precision Farming (ICPPF-2005), held at The Ashoka, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi from November 17-21, 2005.

Singh, Awani Kumar, Ranjan Shrivastava and Gupta, M. J. 2005. Study of year round organic palak production under plastics shad-net-house in northern plain of India. In: International Conference on Plasticulture and Precision Farming (ICPPF-2005), held at The Ashoka, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi from November 17-21, 2005.

Gupta M.J., Irudayaraj, J., Chenxu Yu and Chitrita Debroy. 2004.Detection, Differentiation and Enumeration of Bacteria using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy. Paper presented at North East American Agicultural and Biological Engineers Conference, June 27-30, 2004. University Park, PA, USA.

Gupta M.J. and  Pitam Chandra. 2001. Simulated Thermal Performance of Three Greenhouse Designs for Leh. Paper presented at workshop on " Design and Development of greenhouses suitable for cold arid deserts" held at CIPHET, Ludhiana, Nov. 23-24.

Pitam Chandra and M.J. Gupta. 2000. Energy Management in Covered Cultivation and Animal Shelters. Theme paper presented during expert panel discussion on Energy Management for Sustainable Production System in International Conference on Managing Natural Resource for Sustainable Agricultural Production in the 21st Century between 14-18, February 2000.

Gupta M.J. and Pitam Chandra. 2000. Development of an Energy Conserving greenhouse for Cold Climatic Conditions of northern India. Poster paper presented at the National Seminar on High-tech Horticulture held at Bangalore from June 26th to 28th 2000.

Gupta, M.J. and Chandra, Pitam 1999. Development of greenhouse for northern regions of U.P., Himachal Pradesh and northern plains. Paper presented at the training-cum-seminar organized by the Directorate of Horticulture, Govt. of Himachal Pradesh, Shimla, H.P. during June 3-4, 1999.

Gupta M.J. and Chandra Pitam, 1997. Studies on energy conservation in greenhouses using a mathematical model. Towards Commercialisation of Clean Energy. Ed. Rao, A.N. , Sethumadhavan, R., Karthikeyan, G. Proceedings of the NSEC-97, Anna Univ., Chennai, Dec 22-24, 372-388.

Chapters in Books:

 Chandra, Pitam and Gupta. M.J. 2003. Cultivation in Hi-tech Greenhouses for enhanced productivity of natural resources to achieve the objective of precision farming. In Precision Farming in Agriculture.H.P. Singh, G.Singh and Jose C. Samuel(eds.). pp. 64-96.

Chandra, Pitam and Gupta. M.J. 2002. Greenhouses and Glasshouses for ornamental crops under different climatic conditions. In Advances in Floriculture. Vol. 4.S.K. Bhattacharjee(ed.). pp. 82-94.

Pitam Chandra and Gupta, M.J. 2002. Greenhouse Technology for High Rainfall area. In Production and Management of Flower Crops. Choudhary M.L.; Prasad K.V.; Sakker Hussain; Sindhu S.S. and Kanwar Pal SIngh(eds.). Division of Floriculture and Landscaping, IARI, New Delhi-12, pp 13-23.

Gupta, M.J. 2002. Analysis of Greenhouse Thermal Environment. In Training manual of Short Course on Greenhouse Cooling in Tropical Regions. Pitam Chandra (ed.). Division of Agril. Engineering. IARI, New Delhi-12, pp 20-31.

Gupta M.J. and Chandra Pitam, 1997. Studies on energy conservation in greenhouses using a mathematical model. In Towards Commercialisation of Clean Energy. Rao, A.N. , Sethumadhavan, R., Karthikeyan, G. (Eds.), pp. 372-388.

Juliet, M and Chandra, P.  1993.  A Greenhouse-Type Solar Dryer: Drying Pigeon Peas.  In Role Of Renewable Energy In Energy Policy Dholakia, K.M., Pandey, M.M., Gandhi, Nandini, Vaja, Daksha. (Eds.). pp. 67-71.

Popular Articles:

Gupta M.J. and Pitam Chandra. 2002. Greenhouse Model designed for Colder Regions. ICAR News, 8(2):1-2.

Pitam Chandra and Gupta M.J. 2002. Cultivation in Hi-Tech Greenhouses for Enhanced Productivity of Natural Resources to Achieve the Objective of Precision Farming. Paper presented at the National Seminar on High-tech Horticulture and Precision farming held at C.I.S.H., Lucknow from July 26th to 28th 2002.

 Bulletins : 

Singh, Awani Kumar, Shrivastava, Ranjan and Gupta, M.J. 2004. Krishi mein plastic ka upyog. Bulletin published by Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, pp 1-51.

Chandra Pitam, Gupta, M.J., Shrivastava, Ranjan, Dogra, A.K., Singh, Arun Kumar, Singh, Awani Kumar and  Singh, Sanjay Kumar 2002. Establishment and use of a naturally ventilated greenhouse. Manual published by Plasticulture Development Centre, Division of Agricultural Engineering, I.A.R.I., New Delhi 110012.

Chandra Pitam, Shrivastava, Ranjan, Gupta, M.J., Singh, Arun Kumar, Singh, Awani Kumar and  Singh, Sanjay Kumar 2002. Greenhouse mein sabji utpadan. Bulletin published by Plasticulture Development Centre, Division of Agricultural Engineering, I.A.R.I., New Delhi 110012.