Dr. C.J. Thampi

• Resource Based Panchayat Level Perspective Plan for FACTUAL Planning.
• Panchayat level Land Use Planning as per Land Capability and suitability classification.
• Promote Bio-economy involving Agriculture, Agro Food, natural fibres and Bio-Industrial watersheds.
• Classify coconut palm (cocos nucifera L) as “Bio-Industrial crop”.
• Holistic study of coconut palm coconut fruit (NUT and HUSK)
• Redefine COIR (yarn / rope) as a product of coconut fibre.
• Market coconut palm variety as per its “use potential” i.e. oil, food, tender coconut water, medicinal fibre.
• Coconut Fibre R&D must be given same R &D status of cotton and jute in India for High Value diversified textile and other products.
• Agriculture must be primary industry of the country.

1. Research Assistant (Soil and Water Conservation)

2. Soil Conservation Officer, A&N Island.

3. Soil Chemist All India Soil and Land Use Survey (IARI, Govt. of India,

Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Centre, Kolkata.

4. Senior Scientist / Principal Scientist/ Agricultural Research Scientist (ARS) lRtd.],

Indian Council of AgriculturalResearch, NBSS & LUP, Regional Centre,

(Eastern and North Eastern Region), Kolkata.

5. Head, Regional Centre, NBSS & LUP, ICAR, Kolkata.

6. Commissioner, Kerala State Land Use Board, Govt. of Kerala.

7. Director, Kerala State Remote Sensing and Environment Centre.

8. Co-Consortium Project Investigator, National Agricultural Innovation Project,

(NAIP), ICAR.

9. Member, ICAR Regional Committee VIII

FIC, Fellow, Institution Chemists (INDIA); MRSC, Member, Royal Society of Chemistry, London; Leadership Award, Soil Conservation Society of India, Delhi;

National Fellow, Soil Conservation Society of India. NATIONAL FELLOW AWARD Momento and citation for his outstanding contribution at national level for Soil and Water Conservation, Watershed Management and Land Use Planning from Dr. Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, Union Minister for Rural Development, Govt. of India on 12-02-2008 at NASC Complex, New Delhi.