Dr Binod Prasad Luitel, Nepal — Potato Expert Panel
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Biography
Dr Binod Prasad Luitel is a Senior Scientist in Horticultural Science at the Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC), Khumaltar, Lalitpur. He joined NARC’s National Potato Research Program (NPRP) as a research scientist in 2004 and has worked for more than 14 years in potato research, covering potato breeding, seed potato production and cultivation physiology. He has handled national and international research projects, including Biodiverse and Nutritious Potato Improvement across Peru, Nepal and Bhutan, and has contributed to the development and release of many potato varieties for different agro-ecologies in Nepal.
His current projects are the Development of Climate Resilient and Processing Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Varieties for Food and Nutritional Security in Nepal, and the Improvement of Tissue Culture Laboratory and Glasshouse for Quality Seed Potato Production, a cooperative project between KOPIA Nepal Center and NPRP, NARC.
He received his PhD in Horticultural Science from Kangwon National University, South Korea, in 2012 under the Best-KNU Scholarship, and received an outstanding academic award for his PhD. He completed post-doctoral research at the National Agro-biodiversity Center (2017) and the Allium Vegetable Research Center, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Sciences (2024), both under the Rural Development Administration (RDA), Korea. He received a Commendation Certificate for his contribution to the RDA Global Agricultural Technology Cooperation Project.
Dr Luitel has published more than 50 research papers in national and international peer-reviewed journals, more than 10 articles in proceedings, and is the author or co-author of more than 10 booklets and leaflets. His work has taken him to Kenya, Indonesia, Ireland, Bangladesh, South Korea, Bhutan, Denmark, the Netherlands and India.
Areas of expertise
Haploid breeding; tissue culture; cultivation physiology; functional materials analysis in horticultural crops; plant genetic resources and germplasm characterisation (phenotypic and molecular).
Country and organisation
Nepal. Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC), National Potato Research Program.
