Prof Sanjeev Kumar Email & Phone Number

Founded "The Goat Trust" to work on small livestock (Goat/sheep/backyard bird farming) based livelihoods through enabling local community. The Goat Trust have trained over 10000 women livestock farmers as "Livestock Nurses (Pashu Sakhies in Hindi)" serving over a million families in India. Our major focus of work are -1. Developing Livestock Nurses for improving management and first aid to livestock at doorstep and in low cost 2. Establishing community based Insurance (Mutuals) and Micro leasing of goats/poultry (Bakari Bank), linking Livestock Credit card 3. Live body weight goat pricing, Mobile - web based livestock marketing and 4. Community owned goat milk processing and establishing "Meat Bank" to ensure nutrition, health and regular income Professional Goal - Establishing a field university for less formal educated development workers in small livestock based livelihoodsEnterprise establishments E- commerce for livestock - www.pashubajaar.com NN Breeds & Seeds India Private Ltd - A marketing company to promote breed marketing, ensuring hygiene and non chemical meat and egg supply and ensuring urban gardening services Aajeevika Prashikshan kendra - A dedicated low cost Training infra structure providing organisationOrganisation for Rural Business Transformation (ORBIT) - An enterprise supporting Rural Entrepreneurship and livelihoods development Over 18 years experience in development sector. Last 10 years focussed on strengthening small livestock based livelihoods and transforming it to a profession with better life quality and dignity. Academically - Agriculture graduate from BHU and Masters in Livestock Production & Management from National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) , Karnal, Haryana Specialties: Goat based livelihood, Dairy and rural micro enterrpise and entrepreneurship development

Listed skills include Rural Development, Capacity Building, Ngos, Microfinance, and 46 others.