Agronomist and Homoeopath by academic
qualification Pankaj Oudhia is engaged in documentation
of traditional medicinal knowledge about herbs in
Chhattisgarh, India as Freelance researcher. His main
fields of research are
Allelopathy, Ethnobotany,
Agrohomoeopathy and Ethnoentomology. Oudhia has
published
over 112 research papers in journals of
national and international repute. He has participated
in over 70 science conferences, seminars, workshops etc.
His
over 20,000 research documents are available
on-line at
Botanical.com and
Ecoport.org. He is writing
science articles in Hindi for Indian farmers. At present
he is writing regularly in more than 18 farm magazines.
He has published
over 2000 Hindi science
articles. He has organized
two National
Seminars on Indian medicinal plants. He has written
four books. His effort to bring the researchers,
experts, farmers, students, common persons etc.
associated with obnoxious weed Parthenium hysterophorus
resulted in formation of
International Parthenium
Research News Group (IPRNG). He is a convener of
this group. He is also a convener of Chhattisgarh based
non-governmental organization
Society for Parthenium
Management (SOPAM) . He is associated with
Medicinal Plant Working Group, North America as
International Collaborator. He is advisory member of
many national and international organizations including
Ahmedabad based National Innovation Foundation .
He has received many honors and awards including
two
national awards for his contributions in the field
of
Parthenium management and Indian medicinal
herbs. He is a member of several scientific
societies and is in the editorial board of many
scientific journals. He is associated as expert (Indian
languages) in searchable worldwide web.
Multilingual
Multiscript Plant Name Database Project (MMPND), an
on-line service provided by Dr. Michel H. Porcher with
the co-operation of the University of Melbourne,
Australia. He was associated
as Expert with DBT
(Govt. of India) task force in Bio-pesticides and
crop management, generated through the program
formulating committee for evolving a network program on
the management of Parthenium through an integrated
approach under chairmanship of Dr.M. Mahadevappa. He is
expert (Medicinal Plants and Insects) in
State
Bio-diversity Action Plan Committee, Forest Dept.,
Chhattisgarh Government. He has delivered over
1000
guest lectures. He is providing technical guidance
for the identification, conservation, commercial
cultivation, processing, marketing etc. of
over 75
medicinal and aromatic herbs to the farmers around
the world.
He is Nature Photographer and taken
over 80,000 photographs based on his work in
Chhattisgarh.
Over 30,000 photographs are
available on-line at
Ecoport.org. Many large sized
pictures are available at
Image Bank, Centre for Bioscience,
University of Leeds, UK and
Discoverlife He is
convener of
Yahoo! E-discussion groups on
Parthenium, Jatropha, Stevia, marketing of medicinal
plants and Safed Musli.
Associated with
Ecoport, CABI (UK) and PROTA (Plant Resources of
Tropical Africa), New Crop Website (University of
Purdue, USA) etc. as Academic
contributor.
His research contributions have been
mentioned as reference in
over 3000 post-doctorate,
doctorate and post-graduate theses, dissertations and
project documents in India and other countries
around the world.
He is associated with many
academic organizations as
Guest Faculty member
including Pt. Sunderlal Sharma (Open) University,
Chhattisgarh.
At present he is preparing
Scientific Report titled 'Traditional
medicinal knowledge about herbs and herbal combinations
used in treatment of Type II Diabetes in India with
special reference to Chhattisgarh'.
Recent Publications (Outside
Ecoport)PROTA Database
Cordia myxa Caesalpinia bonducAgave
americana
Phyllanthus amarus
Cocculus
pendulus
Strychnos nux-vomica
Thespesia
populnea
Encyclopedia of Fruit and Nuts. Edited by
J Janick and RE Paull5 Research
Sheets i.e.
Buchanania lanzan,
Ficus
racemosa,
Artocarpus lakoocha,
Diospyros
melanoxylon and
Terminalia catappa as main
author with RE Paul, as co-author.
