Working with FLOCERT Asia as an independent auditor for Fairtrade and Regenerative Farming Standards. Conducting audits of the clients based in Asia pacific region.

Consulting assignment under the GIZ project titled "Sustainable Farming Communities in the Mint Sector (DPPP - SYMRISE)". The purpose of the assignment is to do complete business / economic feasibility study of the "Custom Hiring Centers" providing entrepreneurship opportunity to rural youth in the project area offering certain farm equipment and machineries to the farmers on rentals or as a services offering.

Developed and lead value chains with small and marginal farmers in India, East & West Africa with sustainable organic farming.Developed farming clusters in India, Tanzania, Malawi, Nigeria and Benin under certified organic farming for direct sourcing of various oil seeds, cereals, pulses, root crops, horticulture crops and dairy. Lead teams in these countries for managing farming clusters with more than 85,000 farmers under organic certifications globally.

A young Dutch organisation (RVJ Eurasia Food & Agro Services B. V.) into food and agribusiness sector. Having an objective of exploring business between Europe and Asia into agricultural (fresh fruit & vegetable, processed food and dairy) value chains. Vision is to be the orchestrator of supply chain in food and agribusiness sector utilizing the strengths of crop production, technology, crop diversity, economies of scale, R&D and the market in the regions of our presence while having a value chain development approach. We were working to set up a value chain approach based commercial project (in India) in food sector i.e. fruit and vegetable based healthy snack food for international market which is our major investment project. This was a farm to market set up with direct contracted farmer base; own food processing unit and target market base in Europe & Asia. Worked on a few consulting / project management assignments in development and corporate sectors majorly for TechnoServe India and managing organic farming operations of Vantage Organic Foods.

As a part time consultant, handled project development possibilities in Rajasthan state of India. Part of the team negotiating and designing a major Corporate Social Responsibility project in Western Rajasthan focussing on the Local Enterprise Development with agriculture value chain based approach and natural resource management in core.Personal responsibility was analyzing and designing the complete agriculture value chain intervention for the project focus area. Crops of interest were mushrooms, cumin, psyllium and various horticultural crops.

An organisation into exports of certified organic food commodities / pet food from India. Job Profile: Consultant1. Organizing operations of sourcing and procurement of organic food commodities, mainly dealing in organic soybean pet food.2. Setting up of organic farmer clusters for direct procurement.

A USAID funded project GMED (Growth Oriented Micro Enterprise Development project) managed by ACDI/VOCA, Washington D.C. and based at India.USAID’s first enterprise development project in India, the 4-year, $6.3 million India Growth-Oriented Microenterprise Development Program (GMED) under the Accelerated Microenterprise Advancement Project (AMAP). Project managed to contribute to benefit more than 6500 directly linked beneficiaries in Organic Value Chain component and more than 5000 directly linked beneficiaries in Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Value Chain component.Job Profile: Program Manager – Fruits and Vegetables1. Identifying and developing Fruit & Vegetable farmer (small & marginal) clusters for the partner organizations (ITC Choupal Fresh, RK Foodland, Nandini Cooperative, BIAF, FFA) to facilitate direct procurement and to link them directly to the efficient market system (largely modern retail) so as to improve the income of small & marginal farmers.2. Crop production planning and scheduling for regular supply as per delivery schedule.3. Training of extension staff and the farmers for better agronomic, crop protection, pre harvest and post harvest management practices.4. Developing training manuals and reference material for farmers & extension staff.5. Complete coordination and liaison with the partner organizations.6. Monitoring and evaluation (M & E) of the complete project.7. Developed, mutually with team, the knowledge documents & supply chain flow for an ICT (Information & Communication Technology) application based on mobile platform (smart phones) for connecting supply chain of fresh fruit and vegetable from the crop production (field) planning to the retail shelf. This was part of an ICT project component of GMED with Infosys India.

The company is into production, processing and domestic sales and exports of Certified Organic Food product lines mainly into own branded Tulsi (Basil) based Herbal teas, own branded Psyllium based laxative products mainly for US market, bulk Castor oil, etc. Last Job Profile: Assistant Manager – Planning & DevelopmentReporting to the Chairman (earlier reporting to the CEO) - 1. Production planning and control for the factories and crop production fields. There were two factories in Uttar Pradesh for processing and packaging of certified organic product lines and certified organic area under contract farming set up of around 20,000 acres in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan for cultivation of Tulsi, Castor, Psyllium, Onion, Potato and some herbs with other crops; and a forest area of 600,000 Hectares for wild crafting of Certified Organic herbs in Madhya Pradesh.2. Strategic and business planning for multiple years.3. Developing annual operating plans (sales and operations planning) with complete detailing of SKU wise production, processing and sales in different countries.4. Decision support to the top management with financial and commercial inputs and world organic food market analysis.5. Developing sources for raw material from domestic and international market for the outsourced commodities like Organic Darjeeling and Assam Teas (Green & Black), organic flavors, organic spices, organic sugar, organic stevia powder, etc.6. Handling some key international and domestic marketing channel partners. 7. Identifying new products and project sites for production & introduction of new crops.8. Developing SOP (Standard Operating Procedures) for crop production and factories.9. Overseeing the management of organic crop production projects for planning and control purpose.