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    Kushankur Dey

    Kushankur Dey

    Assistant Professor
    Agribusiness Management

    Kushankur Dey is an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow and joined the institute in September 2019. He has held the Chairmanship of the Centre for Food & Agribusiness Management of IIM Lucknow from September 21, 2020, to September 20, 2022. Before joining IIM Lucknow, he served on the faculty of IIM Bodh Gaya and a few private management institutions for about five years.

    He is a Fellow in Rural Management (equivalent to a PhD) from the Institute of Rural Management Anand. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Centre for Management in Agriculture, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He has more than 20 peer-reviewed research articles to his credit. Some of them have appeared in journals of international and national repute, namely Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Finance, Journal of Rural Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, Applied Economics Letters, Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies, Int. J. of Trade and Global Markets, Int. J. of Financial Markets and Derivatives, Global Business Review, among others. He has about 70 Opinion-Editorials/ columns in the Hindu Business Line, Financial Express, and Business Standard, Indian Management, and Business World, in addition to several book chapters and teaching cases, including Ivey Publishing, SAGE Business Cases, Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies, and Asian Case Research Journal to his credit.

    Dey has undertaken several funded research and consultancy projects, namely concurrent evaluation of MSP-based foodgrains procurement in Uttar Pradesh, concurrent evaluation for the implementation of National Food Security Act (2013) Phase II for Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Uttarakhand, stakeholders' survey of mentha oil futures market at the auspices of Multi Commodity Exchange of India, evaluation study of grant-based financing for cluster development of MSMEs, and impact evaluation of blended financed Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) projects for the last five years. Notably, The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare funded research project titled Farmers' participation in India's futures market: potential, experience and constraints are one of his long-drawn research works brought out by the Springer Nature in association with the Centre for Management in Agriculture of IIMA in August 2021.

    Current Research Interests

    • Sustainability and green financing
    • Blockchain and IoT for sustainable e-agriculture
    • Agricultural markets, pricing, and trade
    • Risk Management in Agribusiness

    Referred Journals publication (Select publications)

    • Avinash Kumar, Kushankur Dey, & Kriti Bardhan Gupta (forthcoming). Food Corporation of India – making public procurement more inclusive and efficient. Asian Journal of Management Cases [ABS '1'].
    • Kushankur Dey, Kriti Bardhan Gupta, & Sukriti Tripathi (2022). Tumbling trade on the MCX: Restoring the glory of mentha oil futures Ivey case publishing. Product no. W27117, September 8, 2022, Richard Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario, Canada.
    • Gaurav Gairola & Kushankur Dey (2022). Price discovery and risk management in asset class: a bibliometric analysis and research agenda. Applied Economics Letters. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2022.2096859 [ABDC ‘B’].
    • Kushankur Dey & Pradeep Kumar Mishra (2022). Mainstreaming blended finance in Climate-Smart Agriculture: Complementarity, Modality, and Proximity. Journal of Rural Studies, Vol. 92, pp. 342-353. [ABS '3'].
    • Kushankur Dey & Debasish Maitra (2022). Electronic agriculture spot markets: Status, impact, and architecture. Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. 57, No. 30, pp. 45–52. [ABDC 'B']
    • Kushankur Dey & Umedsingh Shekhawat (2021). Blockchain technology for sustainable e-agriculture: Literature review, architecture for data management, and implications. Journal of Cleaner Production. Vol. 316, 128254. [ABDC 'A'].
    • Samant Saurabh & Kushankur Dey (2021). Blockchain technology adoption, architecture, and sustainable agri-food supply chains. Journal of Cleaner Production. Vol. 284, 124731. [ABDC 'A'].
    • Samant Saurabh & Kushankur Dey (2020). Unraveling the relationship between social mood and the stock market: evidence from the United Kingdom. Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Finance, Vol. 26, pp. 1-9. [ABDC 'A'].
    • Pradeep Kumar Mishra & Kushankur Dey (2018). Governance of agricultural value chains: Coordination, control, and safeguarding. Journal of Rural Studies, Vol. 64, pp. 135-147. [ABS '3'].
    • Kushankur Dey (2018). Farmer Producer Companies in India: Determinants of performance and viability. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 53, No 44., pp. 44-52 [ABDC 'B'].
    • Kushankur Dey & Debasish Maitra (2017). Agriculture Insurance in India: Promise, Pitfalls, and the way forward. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 52, No .52, pp. 88-96 [ABDC 'B'].

    Conference Proceedings:

    • 2017 - Agriculture insurance in India: Promise, pitfalls, and the way forward. Presented in the First International Conference on Rural Management in November 23-24 at Xavier University Bhubaneswar (with D. Maitra)
    • 2016 - Viability and sustainability of farmer organizations in India: Anecdotes of three producer companies presented in the International Conference on Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies held in January 6-7, 2016 at Anand (with Ateeq Shaikh and Baljeet Singh)
    • 2015 - Do farmers adopt futures markets in India? A field-based experiment accepted for presentation in the Fourth Annual International Agricultural Risk, Finance, and Insurance Conference held in Washington DC, June 7-9 2015 (in absentia).
    • 2013 - Is India’s rubber futures market efficient and dependent on Asian markets? accepted for presentation in Eastern Finance Association (EFA) 49th Annual Meeting at Florida, USA, April 10-13, 2013 (in absentia). (with D. Maitra and S. Alur)

    Newspaper Article (2021-22):

    • Kushankur Dey (2022). Is suspending agri futures justified? Hindu Business Line. October 7, 2022 (print version).
    • Kushankur Dey & Priyankesh Dixit (2022). eNAM platform of platforms – key concerns and way forward. Hindu Business Line. October 1, 2022 (web traction). Link:https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/enam-platform-of-platforms-key-concerns-and-way-forward/article65958249.ece.
    • Kushankur Dey (2022). Tamping irrational exuberance in commodity trade. Hindu Business Line. September 15, 2022 (print version).
    • Kushankur Dey & Priyankesh Dixit (2022). Poultry and poverty. Hindu Business Line, August 26, 2022 (print version).
    • Pradeep Kumar Mishra & Kushankur Dey (2022). Is 'blended finance' a possible solution to the financial crunch in the agriculture sector? The Daily Guardian, August 18, 2022 (print version).
    • Kushankur Dey (2022). Why linking FPOs with the marketplace is vital. Hindu Business Line, July 23, 20220 (print version).
    • Kushankur Dey (2022). Has ONOR portability made PDS efficient and transparent"? Business World Education, July 16, 2022 (Web version). Link: http://bweducation.businessworld.in/article/Has-ONOR-Portability-Made-PDS-Efficient-Transparent/16-07-2022-437299/.
    • Kushankur Dey (2022). Agribusiness Education in India Explained (invited author). Business World Education. June issue, 2022, pp. 128-130 (print version).
    • Saurav Rauniyar & Kushankur Dey (2022). Making agri-tourism a sustainable business. Hindu Business Line, May 14, 2022 (print version).
    • Kriti Bardhan Gupta & Kushankur Dey (2022). Is Participatory irrigation management working? Hindu Business Line, May 4, 2022 (print version).
    • Kushankur Dey & Tushar Vatsa (2022). Pros and cons of Chhattisgarh’s PDS model. Chhattisgarh's Line, April 12, 2022 (print version).
    • Kushankur Dey & Avinash Kumar (2022). Unlocking the potential of platform coops. Hindu Business Line, March 29, 2022 (print version).
    • Kushankur Dey (2022). Russia-Ukraine conflict can spark a global food crisis. Hindu Business Line, March 15, 2022 (print version).
    • Kushankur Dey and Parmarth Krishna Srivastava (2022). Will the Budget give a boost to smart farming? Hindu Business Line, February 14, 2022 (print version)
    • Kushankur Dey (2022). Busting myths around cotton futures. Hindu Business Line, January 20, 2022 (print version).
    • PGP-ABM level

      Risk Management in Agri-business

      Agricultural Commodity Derivatives Markets

      ICT in Agri-business

    • FPM/ EFPM level

      Seminar course on ICT in Agri-business

      Commodity Derivatives & Risk Management

      Agri-business Value Chains 

      Research Methods in Agri-business

    • Post-Doctoral Fellow [Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad] April 2014–December 2015, Centre for Management in Agriculture. 
      Research project title: Farmers’ participation in India’s futures market: Potential, Experience and Constraints (with Vasant P. Gandhi and Kanish Debnath) The manuscript is available at https://www.iima.ac.in/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=507561d6-f77b-4226-b3a4f3dfb9ed0fb0&groupId=62390&filename=Farmer-Participation-Futures-MarketsFinal%20Report%20v3
    • Fellow in (Rural) Management [Institute of Rural Management Anand] June 2007– April 2013 with a CGPA of 3.091/4.33 (during the course work)
      Dissertation/thesis title: Price discovery in India’s futures markets: An empirical exercise with select commodities.
    • Post-graduate diploma in Agri-business & Supply Chain Management [National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE), Hyderabad] – April 2004–March 2005 with specialization agri-supply chain management – GPA/% of Marks- 80%.
    • Bachelor of Agricultural Sciences [Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal] – August 1999–July 2003 with a CGPA of 8.05/10.
    • Best Researcher Award for the category ‘International Research Awards on New Science Inventions’ conferred upon by Science Father 2022, a Scifax company registered and approved by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
    • Best Faculty Award under the aegis of International Scientist Awards 2022 on Engineering, Science, and Medicine conferred by VD Good Technology Factory.
    • Best Researcher Award for ‘the contribution and honourable achievement in innovative research’ conferred upon by Science Father 2021, a Scifax company registered under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
    • Best Researcher Award for the category ‘International Research Awards on New Science Inventions’ conferred upon by Science Father 2020, a Scifax company registered and approved by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
    • Recipient of the Sitaram Rao Livelihood Case Study Award (the first runner-up) 2019. Sponsored by the Access Development Services, New Delhi, and Vaya Trust.