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  • Dr. J. K. Thakur and Dr. Asit Mandal, visited Bangor Univeristy, United Kingdom to attend training on'Microbial community analysis using metabarcoding techniques and plastic analysis’ during 22-26 July, 2024.
  • Dr. Siba Prasad Datta, Director, ICAR-IISS, Bhopal participated in the side events of Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Session in COP-28 at Expo City Dubai during 08th to 11th December, 2023
  • Dr. Dinesh K. Yadav,Scientist availed SERB-International Travel Support (ITS) Grant for participation in the “12th International Congress of Plant Pathology” (ICPP 2023) at Lyon, France during 20-25, August 2023.
  • Dr. Sangeeta Lenka,Principal scientist, visited Iowa State University, Ames, USA, as government visitor in USDA-FAS scientific exchange program on "Climate Smart Agriculture" with Dr. Rameshwar S. Kanwar (Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Water Resources Engineering) as the Host scientist from 7th May 2023 to 7th August 2023
  • Dr. S. R. Mohanty, Pr. Scientist participated in the Fulbright fellowship during September 26 to November 25 2022 at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, California, USA.
  • Dr. Tapan Adhikari, Pr. Scientist participated in the Agriplastics project for package for workshop and work package 2 during 27 February to 3 March 2023.
  • Dr. Tapan Adhikari, Pr. Scientist participated in the World Congress of Soil Science 2022 (WCSS 22) at Glasglow, UK during 31st July 2022 to 05 August 2022..
  • Dr. N.K. Sinha,Sr. Scientist participated in the World Congress of Soil Science 2022 (WCSS 22) at Glasglow, UK during 31st July 2022 to 05 August 2022.
  • Dr. Tapan Adhikari, Pr. Scientist participated in the World Congress of Soil Science 2022 (WCSS 22) at Glasglow, UK during 31st July 2022 to 05 August 2022.
  • Dr. A.K. Patra, Director participated in 11th working session of the intergovernmental technical panel on soils (ITPS) at FAO Hqrs. in Rome, Italy from November 20-22, 2019.
  • Dr. J. K. Saha, Pr. Scientist & I/c Head, ESS Division participated in  the “Exchange, Training and Learning on innovations and options for Soil Protection and Rehabilitation" at Benin, during 04-09th November, 2019.
  • Dr. S.R. Mohanty, Pr. Scientist participated in "Fulbright Nehru Fellowship organized by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory University of California, Berkeley, USA for a period of two months from October 1, 2019 to December 1, 2019.
  • Dr. Sanjay Srivastava, Pr. Scientist participated in 3rd meeting of the South East Asia Laboratory Network (SEALnet) at Manila, Philppines during September 22-28, 2019
  • Dr. M. Vassanda Coumar,Scientist attended in training programe "Environment of Management" by GIMI, Israel during September 10-23, 2019.
  • Dr. Pradip Dey, PC (STCR) participated in "Global Soil Week 2019" creating environmental for sustainable and climate resilient agriculture at ICRAR in Nairobi, Kenya during May 25-31, 2019.
  • Dr. A.K. Patra, Director IISS, participated in the 10th working session of the intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils (ITPS) and Global Symposium on Soil Erosion (GSER19) at FAO Hqrs. in Rome, Italy from 13-17 May, 2019.
  • Dr. N.K. Lenka participated in the Research Planning Workshop on Soil Health and Resilience Studies under SAFBIN at Kathmandu, Nepal during February 18-20, 2019.
  • Dr. K.M. Hati availed Endeavour Research Fellowship at University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia during 1 May to 2 October, 2018 under the supervision of Dr. R.C. Dalal.
  • Dr. Pramod Jha availed Endeavour Research Fellowship at University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia during 8 May to 2 November, 2018 under the supervision of Dr. R.C. Dalal.
  • Dr. A.K Biswas visited on Conservation Agriculture, Commercial Vegetable Production and Rural Development in Bangladesh during 26-31 March, 2018.
  • Dr. J. Somasundaram, Pr. Scientist, Participated GCRF collaboration project preparation workshop at University of Reading, United Kingdom during 13-14 March, 2018.
  • Dr. Ashok. K. Patra, Director IISS, visited Bogor, Indonesia on 20-24 November, 2017 for particapation in First lab managers meeting of the South-East Asia laboratory NETwork (SEALNET 2.0)- Quality improvement in Asia soil laboratories: towards standardization and harmonization of the soil analyses and their interpretation.
  • Dr. Ashok. K. Patra, Director IISS, visited University of Oxford on 11-13 September 2017 and John Innes Centre, Norwich on 14-15 September 2017 to attend 2nd IUNFC Annual Meeting cum workshop.
  • Dr. S. R. Mohanty, Sr. Scientist, visited University of Oxford on 11-13 September 2017 and John Innes Centre, Norwich on 14-15 September 2017 to attend 2nd IUNFC Annual Meeting cum workshop.
  • Dr. Ashok. K. Patra, Director IISS, Participated in the Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD) and GODAN pre-plenary meeting to 9th RDA, at Barcelona, Spain during 03-07 April 2017.
  • Dr. Pradip Dey, Dr. R.S. Chaudhary, Dr. K.M. Hati and Dr. N.K. Sinha visited World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi, Kenya to attend centralized spectroscopy training from 21-25 November, 2016.
  • Dr. M. Vassanda Coumar, Scientist, Global Centre for Environmental Remediation (GCER), University of Newcastle, Australia, 1st June 2016 to 30th November, 2016, Endeavour Research Fellowship (2016)
  • Dr. Ashok. K. Patra, Director IISS, visited New York, USA on 15th - 16th September, 2016, For Global Open Data for Agricultural and Nutrition (GODAN) Summit.
  • Dr. Sanjay Srivastava, Pr. Scientist, visited Kabul-Afghanistan on  9 May, 2016, Kabul-Afghanistan task force for Agriculture Cooperation .
  • Dr. Manoranjan Mohanty, Sr. Scientist, New York University, Columbia, USA, 11th - 14th April, 2016, Group meeting and workshop and deliver a lecture on "Evaluating climate and carbon-temparature-water changes on winter wheat and chickpea in southeastern Madhya Pradesh: Impact and Adaption".
  • Dr. Ashok. K. Patra , Director IISS participated in the joint IGAD-GODAN Pre-Meeting at RDA 7 at Tokyao, Japan during 27 February to 02 March 2016.
  • Dr. T. Adhikari, Pr. Scientist has successfully completed six months deputation (26th August 2015 to 25th February 2016) on Postdoctoral fellowship sponsored by Endeavour Research Programme pursued under Dr RAJARATHNAM DHARMARAJAN Senior Research Fellow, at Global Centre for Environmental Remediation, ATC141, Faculty of Science and Information Technology, The University of Newcastle (UN) University Drive, Callaghan NSW 2308, Australia.
  • Dr. Sangeeta Lenka visited Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University on Endeavour Research fellowship-2015 with host Professor Brajesh Singh from 1st April 2015 to 30st September 2015
  • Dr. J. Somasundaram, Sr. Scientist, successfully completed six months post doctoral research through Endeavour Fellowship under the Guidance of Prof. Ram Dalal, DSITI, Ecosciences Precinct, Brisbane, Australia from 01/05/2015 to 20/10/2015
  • Dr. Sangeeta Lenka, Scientist, successfully completed six months Post Doctoral Endeavour Fellowship at HIE, University of Western Sydney from 1/04/2015 to 30/10/2015.
  • Dr. Ashok. K. Patra , Director IISS, visited ICRAFs Soil Plant Spectral Diagnostics Laboratory at the World Agro-forestry Centre (ICRAF) in Nairobi, Kenya during 17-19th November, 2014.
  • Dr. Sanjay Srivastava , Pr. Scientist, Visited Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania during November 12-18, 2014 on deputation as a member of official delegation for setting up of various centres under Indo African Forum Summit –II (IAFS-II).
  • Dr. Asit Mandal, Scientist visited Korea to participate in the 20th World Congress of Soil Science (20WCSS) at ICC Jeju, Korea during 8-13th June 2014. He presented in poster session on Bioremediation during this congress.
  • Dr Pramod Jha, Sr. Scientist (Soil Chemistry) attended international training in the area of Carbon Trading/Carbon Sequestration/Climate Change under HRD programme of NAIP-ICAR held at Carbon Management and Sequestration Centre, School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University, USA from 20.12.2013 to 15.03.2014 under the supervision of Dr. Rattan Lal, Distinguished Professor of Soil Science.
  • Dr. Asit Mandal, Scientist undertaken a short term training in the area of Bioremediation at the Centre for Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation (CERAR), University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia from September 2 to November 30, 2013. He also participated in the 5th International Contaminated Site Remediation Conference (CleanUp 2013) at Victoria, Melbourne during 15-18th September 2013.
  • Dr. Sanjay Srivastava, Pr. Scientist, Visited Burkina Faso and Togo in Africa, as a member of official delegation, led by Additional Secretary, DARE and Secretary, ICAR 1-7 during December, 2013 in connection with setting up of different projects under Indo African Forum Summit (IAFS-II). Also presented the project on “Establishing Soil, Water and Tissue Testing Laboratory” before agriculture minister of Burkina Faso on 3rd December, 2013.
  • Dr. Sangeeta Lenka, Scientist, visited Bonn, Germany for presentation of project proposal on "Assessing the Impact of Tropospheric Ozone on Agro ecosystem and Trace Gas fluxes" in International Climate Protection Fellowships (Alexander Von Humboldt foundation) at 3rd International Symposium on Climate Protection and Resource Conservation for Young Academics "Global Climate Change-Approaches to International Cooperation" from 24th to 27th April 2012
  • Dr. N.K. Lenka, Pr. Scientist (Soil Physics) visited Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA under Norman E Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship (sponsored by USDA) during 09 October, 2011 to 08 January, 2012 under the supervision of Dr. Rattan Lal, Distinguished Professor of Soil Science.
  • Dr K Ramesh, Sr. Scientist (Agronomy) visited Ohio State University, Piketon, Ohio, USA under USDA Norman E Borlaug International Agricultural Science & Technology Fellowship (sponsored by USDA) during 14th July to 09th Sep 2011 on Organo-zeolite mixtures under the supervision of Prof. Rafiq Islam.
  • Dr. K. Ramesh, Senior Scientist (Agronomy) visited Germany and Switzerland for his research paper presentation at BIOMET 7 conference held at Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany during April 12-14, 2010.
  • Dr. S. Ramana, Senior Scientist undertaken a short term training in the area of Bioremediation at the Centre for Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation ( C E R A R ), University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia from June 1 to August 31.2010.
  • Dr. A. Subba Rao, Director and Dr. K. Sammi Reddy, Principal Scientist visited Australia to participate in the 19th World Congress of Soil Science (WCSS) at Brisbane during 1-5 August 2010. They presented two papers in oral session on Integrated Nutrient Management at WCSS.
  • Dr. Sangeeta Lenka,scientist, visited Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA 1st December, 2009 to 28th February 2010 as visiting scientist.
  • Dr (Mrs). Sangeeta Lenka, Scientist undergone three months foreign training on “Carbon Trading, Carbon sequestration/Climate Change” (Natural Resource Management) under Prof. Keith Paustian, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA during 1st December, 2009 to 28th Feb, 2010.
  • Dr. K. Sammi Reddy visited the IRRI, Manila, Phillipines to participate in the training workshop on “Participatory Approaches for Agricultural Research and Extension” during 7-18 August 2006.
  • Drs. A. Subba Rao, DLN Rao and Muneshwar Singh visited Australia in Review Workshop of the ACIAR-ICAR Project SMCN/2002/032 during 15-25th May, 2006.
  • Dr K. Sammi Reddy visited Australia for Training of the ACIAR-ICAR Project SMCN/2002/032 during 25th April - 29th May, 2006.
  • Dr. KG Mandal Scientist (SS) left for one year post doctoral studies in China.
  • Dr. MV Singh, Project Coordinator (Micronutrients) visited Adelaide, Australia to present an invited paper in the 8 th International Conference on Bio-Geochemistry of Trace Elements during April 3-7, 2005.
  • Dr. AK Misra, Head Soil Physics Division, attended the Review and Planning Meeting of ADB-ICRISAT Project at Kunming, China during April 27-29, 2005.