Assistant Professor
Kerala Agricultural University
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR · AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS
Dr. Manju Mary Paul is an Assistant Professor at Kerala Agricultural University, specialising in agricultural bioinformatics. Her work connects statistical methods, computational approaches and agricultural research.
2021Joined KAU faculty
2015Indian Statistical Service batch
5 yearsGovernment of India service
3Academic degrees
Profile
Before joining Kerala Agricultural University, Dr. Paul served in the Indian Statistical Service as Assistant Director and Deputy Director across several Government of India institutions. Her experience includes official statistics, agricultural policy, field operations and statistical systems, alongside teaching and research in agricultural statistics.
Expertise
Agricultural statisticsAgricultural bioinformaticsStatistical modellingMachine learningClassification methodsOfficial statisticsAgricultural policy dataResearch analytics
Professional journey
Deputy Director
Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India
Assistant Director
Regional Office, Field Operations Division, National Statistical Office, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
Assistant Director
Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India
Assistant Director Trainee
National Statistical System Training Academy, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Greater Noida
Education
PhD in Agricultural Statistics
ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi
MSc in Agricultural Statistics
ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi
BSc in Agriculture
Kerala Agricultural University
Selected publications
- P. T. Sreethu, M. M. Paul, P. P. Gopinath, I. L. Shahana et al. Foliar symptom-based disease detection in black pepper using convolutional neural network. Phytopathology Research (2025).
- B. B. Varghese, P. P. Gopinath, M. M. Paul et al. Integrating AI chatbots for advisory support in black pepper cultivation: a case study on stakeholder acceptance. The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension (2026).
- V. Krishnasree, A. Sajayan, A. Abina and M. M. Paul. Revealing the efficacy of postbiotics on the functional and nutritional characteristics of bioprocessed Nendran banana flour for optimization of weaning mix. Food and Bioproducts Processing (2025).
- V. Vinu, T. L. Pathy, H. K. M. Swamy, R. Valarmathi and M. M. Paul. Evaluation of Saccharum spontaneum clones for water deficit stress tolerance. Indian Journal of Plant Genetic Resources (2024).
- Manju Mary Paul and Anil Rai. Robust method of estimating odds ratios in case-control association studies. The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 90(3), 601–605 (2020).
- Manju Mary Paul, Anil Rai and Sanjeev Kumar. Classification of cereal proteins related to abiotic stress based on their physicochemical properties using support vector machine. Current Science 107(8), 1283–1289 (2014).