Dr. Rashmita Barua is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Administration at Girijananda Chowdhury University, Guwahati, with over 16 years of teaching and more than a decade of research experience. Her research centres on the economy of Northeast India, covering gender economics and women-led development, international trade and investment, entrepreneurship and MSME development, sustainable agriculture and livestock economics, and consumer behaviour in organic food markets. She is the author of Investments and Exports Scenario of Assam and has published more than 20 peer-reviewed journal articles, several of them being Scopus-indexed and indexed on Web of Science, along with seven book chapters and many conference papers. Her work has appeared in journals such as Agricultural Science Digest, International Journal of Interdisciplinary Organisational Studies.
Dr. Barua’s research has been recognised with the International Excellence Award 2026 for Research & Development in Research-Based Writing, and a Best Paper Award at the ICSSR-sponsored National Conference on India as Self-Reliant Bharat and Actions@75 for her paper on small-scale pig farms of Assam. She has also received three Reviewer Excellence Awards from ARCC Journals for her reviewing of Scopus-indexed agricultural journals. She was invited as a plenary speaker at an ICSSR National Seminar in Siliguri in 2026 on women-led development in India. She is a reviewer for the ARCC group of journals, including Indian Journal of Agricultural Research, Agricultural Science Digest and Agricultural Reviews.
Before joining GCU, she spent over 16 years at Assam Don Bosco University, where she supervised five PhD scholars to completion, on topics ranging from small pig farms and organic farming value chains to neuromarketing and business incubators. She also supervised a scholar who was awarded the ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship for 2022-23. She is also Co-Principal Investigator on an AICTE-funded project and Mentor cum Co-PI on an ASTEC-supported project.
At her previous workplace, as the EDIC Coordinator, Dr. Barua has led the university’s entrepreneurship initiatives, mentoring eight student start-ups from pre-incubation stage to maturity.
At Assam Don Bosco University, Dr. Barua served as Editor-in-Chief of the department newsletter The Quest – Ek Anusandhaan for three consecutive years and of the college magazine Creazone 2025 and Creazone 2026.
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