I will spearhead our innovation efforts, focusing on identifying cutting-edge technologies & digital products, transforming customer engagement and scaling new technologies that can revolutionize rice farming, boost productivity, and reduce costs (offtake and input financing)

Leading sustainable soil management for environment and food security || Guiding 3 PG Students for their Ph.D.As a Senior Scientist, I am driving strategic and applied research to develop climate-smart sustainable soil management options for decreasing carbon footprints. Leading work on Rice Crop Manager (RCM), a data-driven platform that employs actionable, context-specific rice nutrient management recommendations . Facilitating and negotiating public and private sector partnerships -… Show more Leading sustainable soil management for environment and food security || Guiding 3 PG Students for their Ph.D.As a Senior Scientist, I am driving strategic and applied research to develop climate-smart sustainable soil management options for decreasing carbon footprints. Leading work on Rice Crop Manager (RCM), a data-driven platform that employs actionable, context-specific rice nutrient management recommendations . Facilitating and negotiating public and private sector partnerships - with academic institutions and state-level government agencies. Key highlights: • Developing and scaling sustainable soil management technologies under regenerative farming to increase system productivity and environmental sustainability and improve farmer’s incomes• Administering partners capacity building by developing a network of service providers, strengthening research and scaling stakeholders, and partnership building with public, public and civil society organizations to upscale & out scale decision support tools• Leading partnerships with private sector companies such as Yara International, Nestle and Bayer Crop Science to scale digital tools to improve nitrogen use efficiencies and reduce carbon footprints.• Heading strategic research to develop improved predictability for decision tools on soil and nutrient management in irrigated and stress-prone environments.• Translating research to scale for existing scaling pathways using recent advances in ICT.• Conceptualizing funding proposals for sustainable soil management, zero-carbon farming and digital agriculture. Secured >USD 5 m to implement digital agriculture projects.• Digital transformation and innovation • Guiding 3 PG Students for their Ph.D. Show less

• Adapting, conceptualizing, and Developing Decision Support (DSS) tools on Site-Specific Nutrient Management (SSNM) for rice-based cropping systems of South Asia • Verifying, releasing, and promoting ICT-based customized decision tools in South Asia for information dissemination on nutrient and crop management to farmers or through extension workers/ crop advisors • Putting technical suggestions for IRRI projects to enhance the science of site-specific nutrient management… Show more • Adapting, conceptualizing, and Developing Decision Support (DSS) tools on Site-Specific Nutrient Management (SSNM) for rice-based cropping systems of South Asia • Verifying, releasing, and promoting ICT-based customized decision tools in South Asia for information dissemination on nutrient and crop management to farmers or through extension workers/ crop advisors • Putting technical suggestions for IRRI projects to enhance the science of site-specific nutrient management • Designing policy-relevant interpretation to implement winning commercial strategies – helped to enhance competitiveness, and accelerate growth, success and profitability. Obtained business approvals for commercial items Show less

Here, I was taking care of• Promoting resource-conserving technologies in rice and wheat in the central Uttar Pradesh region of Indiao Calibration using APSIM and DSSAT: Synthesizing the information collected across experimental sites to assess and compare the multidimensional performances of management scenarioso Research on measuring key indicators of systems performance (yield, profitability, water and nutrient use efficiencies, soil health, energy-use efficiency and feeding… Show more Here, I was taking care of• Promoting resource-conserving technologies in rice and wheat in the central Uttar Pradesh region of Indiao Calibration using APSIM and DSSAT: Synthesizing the information collected across experimental sites to assess and compare the multidimensional performances of management scenarioso Research on measuring key indicators of systems performance (yield, profitability, water and nutrient use efficiencies, soil health, energy-use efficiency and feeding quality); Yield reducing biotic factors (disease, pest, and weeds); Environmental health (global warming and GHG emissions) in CA based systems.o Nutrient management strategies to improve nutrient use efficiencies in rice-wheat systemso Protocols for GHG studies and assessing greenhouse gas emissions from current (rice-wheat) and futuristic (maize-wheat) cropping systems using gas chromatography (GC) and photo-acoustic gas monitor system (PAS)o Impact of various CA based Resource-Conserving Technologies (RCTs) on soil properties and nematode dynamicso Key soil health indicators for Long-term research platform and relate them to best available options for soil productivity -Accessing the performances of new resource-efficient cereal production systems (rice, wheat and maize based cropping system) ; Developing Principles of conservation agriculture (CA) in coordination with: NARS partners and 4 International Agricultural Research Centers (IRRI, CIMMYT, ILRI and IFPRI)• Compiling and interpreting soil and plant analytical results and shared technical reports to concerned Scientists• Discovering mechanisms to improve; guided on instrument purchase for GHG studies in BMGF-Arcadia, USAID and USDA funded project on studies on GHG. Show less