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Dr. Sadhana Ojha

Scientist

Livestock Products Technology

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drsadhanaojha@gmail.com

Profile Overview:

  • Qualification:

    B.V.Sc. & A.H., M.V.Sc., Ph.D.

  • Date of Joining NRCP:

    April, 2026

  • About:

    Dr. Sadhana Ojha completed her graduation (B.V.Sc. & A.H.) from the College of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, Mhow in 2014 and M.V.Sc. with specialization in Livestock Products Technology, from U.P. Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay Pashu Chikitsa Vigyan Vishwavidyalaya Evam Go-Ansundhan Sansthan, Mathura in 2016. Then completed her Doctoral degree in Livestock Products Technology from ICAR- Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly in 2019. She worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Livestock Products Technology at the College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Kishanganj (BASU, Patna), Bihar, for three years from March 2023 to March 2026. She also worked as an Assistant Professor at KCVAS, Amritsar, for three years from November 2019 to March 2023. Before that, she worked as a JRF in the LPT division at ICAR-IVRI, under MoFPI funded project for a short duration of 3 months. She has handled an institutionally funded project (BASU, Patna) titled “Prevailing Marketing Practices for Poultry Meat and its Quality Evaluation in the Kishanganj District of Bihar, as a PI. Area of specialization in quality evaluation and safety assessment of meat and meat products.

Technologies Developed:

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Technologies Commercialized:

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Publications:

  • Total no. of Research Articles: -

Top 9 Research Publications:

  1. 1. Sadhana Ojha, Rishav Kumar, Meena Goswami, Vikas Pathak, Kritima Kapoor and Mukesh Gangwar (2025). Review: Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Through Sustainable Animal-Source Food Production. Challenges (Food Solutions for Health and Sustainability) 2026, 17(1), 7. DOI: 10.3390/challe17010007.
  2. 2. Sadhna Ojha, Gauri Jairath, Suman Bishnoi, Gorakh Mal, Monika Verma, Mukesh Gangwar, Nilakshi Chauhan, and Ashok Kumar Pathera (2025). Book Chapter: Meat Products with Low Nitrite, ISBN 978-3-031-78215-2 (eBook), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78215-2, Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.
  3. 3. Sadhana Ojha, S.K. Mendiratta, Sagar Chand, Meena Goswami, Mahesh Vishwas Chaudhari, Rohit Kumar Jaiswal (2025). Variations in the Qualitative Characteristics of Pork at Various Post-slaughter Combinations of Times and Temperatures Mimicked as in the Indian Retail Market. Asian Journal of Dairy and Food Research.
  4. 4. Sadhana Ojha, Vikas Pathak, Meena Goswami, Sanjay Kumar Bharti, Tanuja (2022). Quality and Safety Assessment of Buffalo Milk Collected from Different Areas of Mathura city. Buffalo Bulletin, 41:3, 391-401.
  5. 5. Rohit Kumar Jaiswal, Sanjod Kumar Mendiratta, Suman Talukder, Vandita Mishra, Anjay, Bomminayuni Gowtham Prasad and Sadhana Ojha (2025). Distinction of fresh from frozen-thawed buffalo meat using β-hydroxylacyl-coa-dehydrogenases (hadh) assay. Buffalo Bulletin.
  6. 6. Sadhana Ojha, S.K Mendiratta, R.R. Kumar, R. K. Agrawal, Suman Talukder, S. Chand, R. K. Jaiswal, M.R. Verma (2019). Prevailing Marketing Practices and Consumer Preference for Pork in Bareilly City. Journal of Animal Research, 9:4, 551-557.
  7. 7. Sadhana Ojha, Vikas Pathak, Meena Goswami, Sanjay Kumar Bharti, Veerpal Singh, Tanuja (2019). Comparison of Quality and Safety Parameters of Milk from Mathura city. Ruminant Science, 8:1, 55-60. NAAS rating – 5.47
  8. 8. Sadhana Ojha, Vikas Pathak, Meena Goswami, Sanjay Kumar Bharti, Veerpal Singh,Tanuja (2021). Quality and Safety Assessment of Goat’s Milk Collected from Different Regions of Mathura city. Indian Journal of Dairy Science, 73:6, 1-7
  9. 9. Sadhana Ojha, Vikas Pathak, Meena Goswami, Sanjay Bharti, Veerpal Singh, Tanuja (2017). Quality and Safety Assessment of Cow’s Milk in Different Regions of Mathura city. Nutrition & Food Science, 47:3, 443-445.

Awards:

  1. Institute Fellowship during Ph. D. Program (ICAR- Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly U.P.)
  2. Dr. Karmegam Dushyantam Award for best doctoral thesis (Indian Meat Science Association, Hyderabad)

Membership of Societies:

  1. Life member of Indian Meat Science Association
  2. Life Member of Indian Dairy Association.
  3. Life member of Indian Association of Veterinary Public Health Specialists.
  4. Life member of Indian Poultry Science Association.