District Food System & INRM Expert (District Co-ordinator) - FAO-GEF 7 FOLUR Project - Punjab, India
(2025-11)
- Lead district-level implementation of sustainable solutions across the food value chain.
- Conduct stakeholder consultations and contextual analysis to identify partnerships across agriculture, logistics, and allied sectors.
- Coordinate with District Collectors, FPOs, and district institutions to enable multi-sectoral convergence.
- Provide technical leadership, ensure quality assurance, and mobilize expertise as required.
- Represent the project in district and state-level meetings and forums.
- Support preparation and implementation of District Annual Work Plans and Budgets (D-AWP/B).
- Implement monitoring, evaluation, and reporting systems to track project outputs and outcomes.
- Facilitate capacity building, gender mainstreaming, and social inclusion of marginalized communities.
- Conduct regular field visits to monitor progress and support effective implementation.
Product Delivery Manager - Reliance Foundation - Punjab, India
(2023-11 - 2025-11)
- Addressed farmer meetings and conducted needs assessments to understand challenges in achieving improved yield and adoption of improved practices.
- Enrolled additional new users and updated user profiles; supported baseline surveys.
- Built networks and partnerships with knowledge and grassroots partners, leveraging their expertise, services, training capacities, schemes, and user networks.
- Developed locally customized and situationally responsive interventions to improve yield and management practices.
- Implemented programmes aligned with annual operating plans, ensuring cost-effective, innovative, and outcome-driven delivery.
- Managed farmer queries through multiple helpline channels (toll-free, YouTube, WhatsApp).
- Documented and analysed queries by theme and region, feeding insights to the programme delivery team to improve execution and content.
- Supported surveys for specific interventions and carried out various special assignments.
Junior Agronomist - Agri Kheti - Mohali, India
(2023-05 - 2023-11)
- Worked with data scientists on artificial intelligence applications for crop protection.
- Reviewed crop manuals, crop care data, and the harvester planner.
- Prepared the monthly notification calendar.
- Supported senior management in planning and carrying out daily operations to meet key objectives.
- Scheduled weekly projects, anticipating timelines for milestones and completion dates.
- Trained and supported less experienced staff in managing workloads and assignments.
- Prepared and conducted farmer interviews for research purposes.
- Undertook various survey and data-collection activities, including classification and directional surveys.
Agro Advisor - Agri Kheti - Mohali, India
(2021-04 - 2023-05)
- Segregated disease/insect/deficiency images sourced from field officers and open-source data scientists.
- Resolved farmer queries across field crops, vegetables, fruit crops, and pulses.
- Sent seasonal notifications to farmers.
- Produced digital disease/insect bulletins for social media.
- Worked on crop protection (chemical and organic).
- Conducted regular farmer field visits and addressed farmer meetings, including video calls with premium farmers.
- Held weekly encouragement sessions with field officers and monitored farmers enrolled in organic farming trials.
- Delivered live sessions on Facebook and YouTube addressing crop-related problems.
- Created and updated crop manuals, crop care data, and the harvester planner on the Agri Kheti app.
Farmer Tele Advisor - Plantix GmbH - Mohali, India
(2019-08 - 2020-10)
- Processed and corrected farmer data.
- Verified dealers via CCA calls to PACS, retailers, and distributors supplying agricultural inputs.
- Delivered crop protection advisory / Plantix farmer advisory using Zoho CRM and Google Sheets.
