A K Samanta is a Doctorate in Animal Nutrition. His innovative research on buffalo gut anaerobic fungi bestowed with prestigious Jawahar Lal Nehru Award in 1999 by ICAR. He has made an endeavor to prepare complete feed blocks for improving rumen fermentation. He has developed enzymatic process for xylooligosaccharides production from the xylan of agricultural wastes and byproducts. Recently, he has received the outstanding ICAR-Interdisciplinary Team Research Award in 2014 for research on prebiotics. He is the Fellow of National Academy of Veterinary Sciences (FNAVS). He is currently undertaking research on therapeutic application of prebiotic, gut microflora, isolation of bioactive carbohydrates etc.A K Samanta is a Doctorate in Animal Nutrition. His innovative research on buffalo gut anaerobic fungi bestowed with prestigious Jawahar Lal Nehru Award in 1999 by ICAR. He has made an endeavor to prepare complete feed blocks for improving rumen fermentation. He has developed enzymatic process for xylooligosaccharides production from the xylan of agricultural wastes and byproducts. Recently, he has received the outstanding ICAR-Interdisciplinary Team Research Award in 2014 for research on prebiotics. He is the Fellow of National Academy of Veterinary Sciences (FNAVS). He is currently undertaking research on therapeutic application of prebiotic, gut microflora, isolation of bioactive carbohydrates etc.

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