Prabodh

Prabodh Illukpitiya 
Associate Professor
Academic Advisor & Focus Group Leader – Agribusiness Management 
Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
College of Agriculture

Contact Information: 
204 H Farrell Westbrook
Telephone: 615-963-1877
pillukpi@tnstate.edu

Research Areas: 
Production Efficiency, Benefit: Costs Modelling, Risk and Decision Analysis, Economic Impact Analysis

Publications:
Illukpitiya, P., Ortiz, A and Tegegne, F. 2022. Ginseng based forest farming as sustainable income diversification opportunity for landowners, Sustainable Agriculture Research, 6(1): 25-33.

Adhikari, S and Illukpitiya, P. 2021. Small-scale biodiesel production for on-farm energy security: a sustainable income diversification opportunity for oilseed producers. Biofulels 12(6): 605-614.

Nwosis, S., Illukpitiya, P., Nandwani, D., Arebi, T and Nwosisis, O. 2021. Organic and Conventional sweet potato production in the southeastern of US. A comparative analysis. Agric & Food Secur 10, 27:1-9. 

Yuldashev, F., Illukpitiya, P., Tegegne, F., Ekanem, E. 2020. Techno-economic analysis of plantation biomass production and small-scale wood pellet processing for bioenergy market, International Wood Products Journal, 11: 173-188. 

Alegbeleye, I.D and Illukpitiya, P. 2019. Economic analysis of utilization of corn stover for bioenergy production: Towards diversifying income opportunities for small farmers. Journal of Technology Innovations in Renewable Energy, 8: 21-28.

Illukpitiya, P & deKoff, J.P. 2019. An economic assessment of nutrient removal from switchgrass production. Research in Applied Economics, 11(2). 26-38.

Illukpitiya, P., Reddy, C.K., Bansal, A. 2017. Modeling net energy balance of ethanol production from native warm season grasses. Energy Economics, 64:346-352.

Chen, B and Illukpitiya, P. 2017.  The factors influencing establishment of demonstration farmers’ cooperatives in China. International Journal of Cooperative Studies, 6(2): 25-32.

de Koff, JP., Ricketts, J.C., Robbins, C., Illukpitiya, P and Wade, A. 2017. Meeting stakeholder energy technology education needs using a mobile demonstration. Journal of Extension, 55(6): 1-12.

Jin, Y and Illukpitiya P. 2016. Cost minimization of supplying biomass for ethanol biorefineries. Energy, 96 (1): 209-214. 

Bansal, A., Illukpitiya, P., Tegegne, F and Singh, S.P. 2016. Energy efficiency of ethanol production from cellulosic feedstock, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 58 (1): 141-146.

Abimbola, A, Illukpitiya, P and De Koff, J.P. 2016. Economic analysis of small scale on-farm production of biodiesel and vegetable oil for industrial use from winter oilseed crops. Journal of Global Agriculture and Ecology, 5 (1): 19-29.

Illukpitiya, P and Gopalakrishnan, C. 2015. Rural households' decision-making in fuelwood collection. A case study of natural forest margins in the tropics. Journal of Natural Resources and Policy Research, 7 (2-3): 125-138. 

Adhikari, S and Illukpitiya, P. 2015. Utilization of oilseed crops for on-farm energy security, Journal of Technology Innovations in Renewable Energy, 4 (4): 113-119.

Abimbola, A., Illukpitiya, P., Ekanem, E. and Tegegne, F 2014. US consumers’ food consumption behavior and policy implications for changing diets, Journal of Nutritional Ecology and Food Research. 2: 1-9.

Ankit Bansal, Prabodh Illukpitiya, Surendra P. Singh, Fisseha Tegegne, 2013. Economic competitiveness of ethanol production from cellulosic feedstock in Tennessee. Renewable Energy (59): 53-57.

Illukpitiya, P, Yanagida, J.F Ogoshi, R and Uehara, G. 2013. Sugar-ethanol-electricity co-generation in Hawai’i: An application of linear programming (LP) for optimizing Strategies. Biomass and Bioenergy (48): 203-212.

Ho, T., Yangida, J.F. and Illukpitiya, P. 2013. Factors Affecting Technical Efficiency of Small-Holder Coffee Farming in the Krong Ana Watershed, Vietnam. Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension, Economics & Sociology, 3 (1). 37-49.

Surendra P. Singh, Prabodh Illukpitiya and Sammy Comer, 2013. Human Capital Development for the Evolving 21st Century Bio-based Economy in USA: Assessing Needs for Education, Skills and Capabilities by Agribusiness Enterprises. International Journal of Marketing Financial Services and Management Research 2 (6): 12-24.

Illukpitiya, P., Gopalakrishnan, C and Ratnayake, RMMB. 2012. Economic competitiveness of biofuel Production from underutilized ethanol feedstock. Journal of Natural Resources and Policy Research 4 (2): 91-102

Tran, N., Illukpitiya, P., Yanagida, J.F. and Ogoshi, R. 2011. Optimizing biofuel production: an economic analysis for selected biofuel feedstock production in Hawaii. Biomass and Bioenergy, 35: 1756-1764.

Teaching:
AGSC 2010: Agribusiness Economics
AGSC 2020: Agribusiness Management
AGSC 3030: Environmental Natural Resource Economics and Management
AGSC 4020: Quantitative Techniques in Decision Making
AGSC 4090: Community Development
AGSC 5080: Agribusiness Management and Market Analysis

Awards and Grants:
Outstanding Research Faculty, College of Agriculture - 2018
USDA-NIFA, USDA-AFRI, Department of Energy

Education:
PhD (Agricultural and Resource Economics), University of Hawai'i at Manoa
MS (Natural Resource Management), Norwegian University of Life Sciences
BS (Agriculture), University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Date Joined staff: 2011





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