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Andhra's Tanmaie Kalapala bags Department of Agriculture grant
Kalapala is a PhD candidate at the Arkansas University's Department of Poultry Science.
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Jeffin T. Kaleekal - Fri, 26, Sep 2025
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Tanmaie Kalapala / Tanmaie Kalapala via LinkedIn
Indian-origin Poultry Science doctoral candidate, Tanmaie Kalapala, has been awarded the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education 2025 Graduate Student Grant.
Awarded to selected Masters' and PhD students from across the Southern USA, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands, the grant aids winners in conducting research projects on a wide variety of sustainable agriculture production, marketing and social science topics.
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A part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) grants and outreach program, it aims to make sustainable approaches available to U.S. agriculture.
Kalapala's proposal, titled, 'Frass Forward: Transforming Waste into Sustainable Feed and Fertilizer' aims to develop strategies for ensuring the safety of insect frass, a mixture of excreta, feed, and molted skins, application as both a fertilizer and as a poultry feed ingredient, thereby enhancing food and environmental safety while supporting sustainable agriculture.
Her research is guided by Arkansas University Poultry Science Assistant Professor Tomi Obe. The Department of Poultry Science in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences at the University of Arkansas, is part of the Center of Excellence for Poultry Science.
Before joining Arkansas University in pursuit of a PhD, Andhra Pradesh native Kalapala studied Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry at Pondicherry University and also worked as a research assistant at the Buffalo Research Station in Andhra Pradesh.
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