Granted Patent
Bhowmik, A., Bhunia, S., Mukherjee, J., 2021. An Apparatus for Recycling Slaughterhouse Waste and Method Thereof. Indian Patent 370,569.
Research Articles
2025
Bhunia, S., Singh, P.K., 2025. Producer organizations in the last 25 years: A bibliometric analysis and meta-review of the literature. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 12, 200. (Nature portfolio, IF: 3.6)
2023
Bhunia, S., Bhowmik, A., Pramanik, A., Mallick, R., Mukherjee, J., 2023. Successive cultivation of cabbage and spinach by land application of recycled slaughterhouse waste: benefits to farmers and agro-ecosystem health. Environmental Technology & Innovation. 29, 102967. (Elsevier, IF: 7.1)
2022
Balu, S., Bhunia, S., Gachhui, R., Mukherjee, J., 2022. Polyaromatic hydrocarbon sequestration by intertidal phototrophic biofilms cultivated in hydrophobic and hydrophilic biofilm promoting culture vessels. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 437, 129318. (Elsevier, IF: 11.3)
2021
Bhowmik, A., Bhunia, S., Debsarcar, A., Mallick, R., Roy, M., Mukherjee, J., 2021. Development of a novel helical-ribbon mixer dryer for conversion of rural slaughterhouse wastes to an organic fertilizer and implications in the rural circular economy, Sustainability. 13(16), 9455. (MDPI, IF: 3.3)
Bhunia, S., Bhowmik, A., Mallick, R., Debsarcar, A., Mukherjee, J., 2021. Application of recycled slaughterhouse wastes as an organic fertilizer for successive cultivations of bell pepper and amaranth. Scientia Horticulturae. 280, 109927. (Elsevier, IF: 4.2)
Bhunia, S., Bhowmik, A., Mallick, R., Mukherjee, J., 2021. Agronomic efficiency of animal derived organic fertilizers and their effects on biology and fertility of soil: a review. Agronomy. 11(5), 823. (MDPI, IF: 3.4) Editor's Choice
2020
Balu, S., Bhunia, S., Gachhui, R., Mukherjee, J., 2020. Assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon contamination in the Sundarbans, the world’s largest tidal mangrove forest and indigenous microbial mixed biofilm-based removal of the contaminants. Environmental Pollution. 266, 1-10. (Elsevier, IF: 7.3)
Book Chapters
2022
Bhunia, S., Bhowmik, A., Mukherjee, J., 2022. Waste management of rural slaughterhouses in developing countries, in: Hussain, C.M., Hait, S. (Eds.), Advanced Organic Management: Sustainable Practices and Approaches. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 425-449.
Conference Proceedings
2021
Bhunia, S., Bhowmik, A., Mallick, R., Mukherjee, J., 2021. Utilization of recycled slaughterhouse wastes for vegetable cultivation in rural India, in: Kalamdhad, A.S., (Eds.), Integrated Approaches Towards Solid Waste Management. Springer, New Delhi, pp. 1-12.
Invited Lectures
2025
SART Talk, "Towards a Viksit Bharat by 2047: Innovative Approachesto Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Welfare" organized by the School of Agro and Rural Technology, IIT Guwahati, Assam
Seminar/ Symposium/ Conferences
2025
Oral presentation, ““Assessing floating-bed agriculture against conventional farming practices in the inundated Indian Sundarbans towards disaster resilience and sustainable development” authored by Shantanu Bhunia et al., at the 4th International Symposium on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development to be held at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand (accepted)
2021
Poster presentation, “Valorization of rural abattoir waste as fertilizer for sustainable agricultural production and socio-economic development” authored by Shantanu Bhunia et al., at the Nature Conference on Waste Valorisation for a Sustainable Future held at Korea University, Seoul
2020
Poster presentation, “Utilization of recycled slaughterhouse wastes for vegetable cultivation in rural India” authored by Shantanu Bhunia et al., at the RECYCLE 2020 held at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India (Awarded for Best Poster Presentation)
2017
Poster presentation, “Production and characterization of exopolysaccharides from endophytic fungi and actinomycetes of Jangalmahal, West Bengal” authored by Shantanu Bhunia et al., at the 2nd Regional Science and Technology Congress of Government of West Bengal held at University of Burdwan, India
2017
Poster presentation, “Antimicrobial and antioxidant activity of isolated endophytic fungi and actinomycetes from Jangalmahal of West Bengal” authored by Shantanu Bhunia et al., at the NSMB 2017 held at Vidyasagar University, India (Awarded for Best Poster Presentation)
Workshops Attended/ Presented
2022
Presented “Polarizing organic farming as climate adaptive practice through women-led entrepreneurship in South Asia” at the South Asia Proposal Development Training Workshop of Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) at Galle Face, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Attended the Pilot Workshop on Masters in Circular Economy at Aston University in the United Kingdom, sponsored by the British Council (UK)
Article in Nature (IF: 3.6)
Book chapter in ELSEVIER
Nature conference @ KU, Seoul
APN PDTW, Colombo