Dr. Shubhaom Panda, native of Cuttack district, Odisha, is an agri-business professional with more than five years of academic, industrial and research expertise; especially in agribusiness-economics, agricultural input-marketing; and agricultural journalism. He has more than fifteen publications in different  renowned journals, magazines and books of national and international level. He has bagged more than thirty-five certificates at different national and international level conferences, trainings, workshops, FDPs, etc. He is also associated with different academic societies at national and international level as life member, editor and reviewer. He earned Ph.D. (Agri-business) from the Institute of Agri-business Management, Bikaner. He holds MBA (Agri-business Management), MBA (Rural Management), PG Diploma (Agricultural Extension Management), Master of Journalism and Mass communication from diversified institutions of repute.