Acknowledgements
It gives me immense pleasure to articulate a weighty appreciation to
all those timeless efforts spent in writing this thesis. Albeit, this is no longer
one-upmanship and immeasurable encouragement has been on my way all the time. The
consanguineous flagging but edulcorative phase is now over and at this stage of
metamorphosis in respect, I feel indebted to all those help creating a solacing
milieu to experience this moment.
Mere words are inadequate to express the sense of gratitude and
indebtedness to those whose assistance was indispensable for the completion of
my thesis work. But often we have to give vent to our sentiment through the
medium of words written or spoken. First of
all, I ascribe all glory to the gracious LORD JAGANATH & MAA SAMLESWARI for their heartfelt benedictions and
silent blessings which always acts as my savoir in the face of all sorts of
peril and paved the path of my life.
I feel elysian and unfathomable euphoria to pronounce my heartfelt
adoration and gratitude to my honourable Chairman of Advisory Committee, Prof.
K.K. Sarkar, Professor & Head, Department of
Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya,
Mohanpur, Nadia (WB) for his invaluable and ceaseless guidance, precious
counsel, unstinted help, constant encouragement during the course of
investigation and constructive criticism in the preparation of the manuscript
of the thesis which can never be forgotten. His valuable suggestions,
innovative ideas and meticulous nature helped me in the execution of my
investigation and degree. His close monitoring and stimulating influence made
the work complete with perfection. I hope to live up to his expectations in future as a researcher.
With a profound and unfading sense of obligation I express my
heartfelt thanks to the member of my Advisory Committee, Prof. Amitabh Konar,
Department of Entomology and Officer-In-Charge of All India Coordinated Research
Project on Potato, West Bengal. Dr.Asit Baran Mondal, Dept. of Plant Breeding, Mr.Gouranga
Sundar Mondal, Associate Proffesor, Dept. of Plant Breeding, Faculty of
Agriculture, BCKV, for their help through the course of investigation work.
My deep sense of gratitude to Prof. S.P. Sinhamahapatra for his
guidance and encouragement throughout this work. His help and concern is always
invaluable, his placidness and unassuming nature forever oblige me and I am
greatly indebted to him for providing me support to complete my research work efficiently
& courageously.
I am much more thankful to Prof.Dr.Debashis Majumder, Professor,
Department of Agricultural Statistics for his concern and timely co-operation
for all my statistical eventualities. Special thanks to Dr. Kanti Pradhan for
his constant support and guidance.
I would not be
exaggerating if I don’t show my gratitude to all the teachers and non teaching
staff, Deptt. Of Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, B.C.K.V. who help me a
lot during my course of study.
Words are really
insufficient to express my deep love for my dear friends Puranjaya Panigrahi
& Radheshyam Behera who were always been a maximum strength friend,
supporting me and comforting me at the time of the despair and whose constant
inspiration never gave me a chance to fallen in this endeavour.
My heartfelt and sincere thanks to Ayesha Mohanty (to
whom I consider as my lady luck) for her selfless love, affection and constant
support with lot of encouragement throughout this endeavour.
My sincere gratitude to
my senior Laxmi didi (PHD),Sujaya didi (PHD), Sarika didi (PHD), Ipsita didi
(PHD), Srujani didi(PHD) and Ashim Da (ARS) for their constant encouragement
and judicious help. I
am extremely thankful to my "like
minded peer group" includes Jyoti ranjan Pradhan & Basudeb
Satpathy, though they are my juniors but remaine here at BCKV as my two best
buddy. I am appreciative of my
juniors Sabyasachi Das, Rupashri Senapati and Anil Kumar Naik for their
encouragement and the interest they showed in my work.
I am delighted to put
across my gratefulness to the end-less list of my friends for their love and
affection, extended to me and made my stay at BCKV as the most memorable event
in my life. I thank Manish, Dinesh & Ashutosh for all those joyful and
fun-filled moments and encouragement that kept me afloat all the time.Last but
not the least I am very much grateful to Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya
for giving me such an opportunity to carry out and accomplish the research
work.
I am deeply beholden to
my parents in the long run, the contribution of my beloved Maa dearest Baba
loveliest Mama (my cutie sister), Ghana dada, Jagabandhu dada (A retired
district Agriculture officer cum my maternal grand pa) and my adorable mamu
JKS_infy, who have always been my source of inspiration. There abundant love,
silent blessings and scarifies have always been the under lying that aided me
in surpassing all sorts of hindrances. Their influence and impulsiveness cannot
be traced with boundaries of pen and papers. Their continuous zeal during the
entire period of this venture made it possible for me to complete this endeavour.
Many have not been mentioned but none is forgotten.
