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N.D.Majumder {{Infobox Scientist 'Dr. Nanda Dulal Majumder is a famous agriculture scientist and is extremely popular in the field of agriculture for his research in Rice and Pigeon Pea
 * Name = Dr.N.D.Majumder
 * Born = {{Birth date and age|1953|3|3}},{{flagicon|IND}}, India
 * Died =
 * Field =Agriculture
 * Organization = Indian Council of Agriculture Research(ICAR)
 * Occupation = Project Coordinator, Scientist
 * Years_active = 1982–present

Biography
Dr.N.D.Majumder is the first of the three children of Bengali revolutionary born to Dr.R.Majumder who was a homeopathic doctor and took part actively in revolutionary movement. He lost his mother at a very early age of 10. His initial education was done in Agartala, Tripura. After completing his school life he went for further education to Ranchi University. When he was in first year there he lost his father.After completing his post graduation from Ranchi he joined the Kalyani University and completed his Doctoral under Prof.Bhaduri. He than joined the ICAR in 1975 in Shillong. He married to Anindita Nag Chaudhary who was from an affluent family from Kolkata. As a scientist he was extremely hardworking and passionate for his work from this young age. He won first of his national awards (Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Award for Tribal Areas) for his work in germplasm and recieved the award in 1985. He got promoted to being Senior Scientist in late 1985 shifted to Andamans. This was another remote location similar to Shillong and most of the scientist used to detest to go to such location. However he stated that 'When you are researching in agriculture you need to be as close to nature as possible.' He had his son, Shaswata Majumdar born in 1986. He won his second National award after showing exemplary performance of leading a team of scientist (ICAR Award for Outstanding Multidisciplinary Team Research in Agriculture and Allied Sciences ) and coming up with new varieties of rice using Plant Breeding. After spending almost 10 years he shifted to Hyderabad, DRR but his health hit a low. He alongwith his son were in serious conditiion due to depression. He also suffered setbacks as many of his research papers were alleged to be stolen. Sensing that city life had not suited him, he moved to Almora a small town in Kumaon region of Uttaranchal.Here he got promoted as Principal Scientist and continued his work. However with his son growing up and need of a city for his further education led him to move to Kanpur and he was promoted as Project Co-ordiantor in Pigeon Pea. He is known for his managerial skills, simplicity, straightforwardness, honesty apart from being a great scientist in his field.He has to his credit many research papers in diversified fields from plant breeding, germplasm to tissue culture. He had also been felictated with many more awards across the country. Currently he is continuing as the Project-Co-ordinator, Pulse Pea in IIPR,Kanpur