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Amit Kumar Shukla
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Asst.Project Manager
, TechnoServe 'International non-profit' Organization
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Ghaziabad ,
Delhi
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I am an agribusiness professional with around 8 years of experience in banking and rural development sector. I have experience of working on multiple projects with international development agencies and private donors. Over the years, I have grown with the organizations I have worked for and have assumed new and more challenging roles and responsibilities.. While delivering my best, I also ensure that I uphold high standards of work ethics and integrity. |
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Area of Expertise: |
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Agriculture, Livelihoods, Microfinance, Rural, Urban
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Professional Experience: |
Presently Working With TechnoServe as Asst.Project Manager (From April 2012)
Name of the assignment with TechnoServe –
1-Name of the Project: Implementing Agri-Based intervention and Catalyzing Local Economic Development in Barmer
Year: 2014-2015
Location: Barmer
Client: Cairn India
Project Status: On going
Main Project Features:
• Raise revenue from agriculture for 10,000 farmers by on average 50% over 5 years
• Create a lasting resource of 100 trained agricultural experts in Barmer
• Improve agriculture, water and natural resource base in the district
2-Name of the Project: Economic Development of Vegetable Farmers
Year: 2013-2014
Location: Haryana
Client: Walmart (Open Road alliance)
Project Status: Completed
Main Project Features: Work in partnership with global retainer to support over 8000 smallholder vegetable farmers to integrate into profitable supply chains. Provide training and support aimed to increase farm productivity and to meet quality standards of mainstream supply chains.
Position Held: Cluster Manager
3-Name of the Project: Economic Development of Tibetan Settlements (EDOTS)
Year: 2012-2013
Location: Karnataka (Bylakuppa & Mundgod)
Client: USAID
Project Status: Completed
Main project features: Create sustainable, replicable livelihood opportunities for farmers and young people in Tibetan settlements. Farmer training to improve agricultural output, including introducing and enabling practices such as organic agriculture and WADI plantation.
Position held: Cluster Manager
4-Name of the Project: Basmati Rice Water-use Efficiency
Year: 2012-2013
Location: Haryana
Client: International Finance Corporation
Project Status: Completed
Main project features: Improve implementation of water-use efficiency (WUE) technologies in Indian paddy cultivation. Through pilot projects, develop partnerships, technology delivery extension models, and financial linkages—enabling large-scale expansion across India
Position held: Cluster Manager
5-Name of the Assignment: Responsible for marketing of Rural Financial projects and business development activities for Agriculture Development Branch of SBI (State Bank of India Agriculture Development Branch)
Year: 2005-2010,
Location: Uttar Pradesh
Company: State Bank of India
Position held: Agriculture Officer
Activities performed:
• Pre- Sanction Survey and Recommendation.
• Post sanctions inspection.
• Organize marketing campaigns.
• Assess potential for business and promote agricultural advances.
• Outbound marketing, local promotions.
• Gathering market information
• Financial analysis of the Project.
• Identification of the Project
• Preparation and formulation of The Project.
• Appraisal and implementation evaluation of the Project .
• Preparing model schemes /Revising existing scheme in his area of specialization
• Under taking techno- economic evaluation and processing of the scheme /high value proposals.
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Education: |
1-MBA in Agri Business Management from IABM Noida.
2-B.Sc (Agriculture) from G.B.P.U.A & T Pantnagar.
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Affiliations and Achievements: |
1-- Summer internship in “Pantaloon Retail India (Ltd) for two months and project title was
“SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION.
2-“Two Months Certification Program in Agri Clinic Conducted by Manage Hyderabad”
3- Done project work on usefulness of “mobile based information system” in Meerut Cluster.
I am an agribusiness professional with around 8 years of experience in banking and rural development sector. During my professional career, I have worked closely with farming community for their social and economic upliftment. My core competencies involve project management, conducting agri value chain studies and designing intervention strategies based on them, imparting and facilitating trainings for farmers and farmer organizations, conducting market research (surveys and focus group discussions) and liasioning with government agencies and other stakeholders for successful completion of the project. I am a strong leader who has good team building skills and accomplishes goals on time. While being a good leader, I am also an excellent team player, who not only aims for personal growth and learns from his seniors and team but also try to ensure that the team also grows along with him and try to mentor co-workers and juniors. I have experience of working on multiple projects with international development agencies and private donors. Over the years, I have grown with the organizations I have worked for and have assumed new and more challenging roles and responsibilities. While delivering my best, I also ensure that I uphold high standards of work ethics and integrity. I look up to challenges as a part of the learning process and as an opportunity to evolve as a better and more skilled professional. I am quick at adopting to challenging opportunities and try to find logical solution to problems. During my career, I have time and again proved that I can effectively handle multiple assignments with effective planning and team effort.
I am supporting teams on projects in Rajasthan on Agricultural livelihood development ,Building rural enterprises, skills and human resources
Natural Resource Management (NRM) interventions and market linkages to the farmers by federating them in Farmer Producer Organization and further supporting them in linking with credit sources, markets and also capacity building of the functionaries including BoDs of the FPCs. Introduction of improved techniques of vegetable cultivation using good agriculture practices with farmers of Barmer along with the improvement in productivity of different existing crops like Perl Millet, Guar, Cumin, Isabgol and Caster are some of the challenging initiatives are being implemented under my leadership. Supporting partner organizations like SURE, BAIF and MPOWER towards strengthening community institutions, Dairy value chain, drinking water, Child and woman health initiatives in the project area are also some of my deliverables.
I am always part of capacity building and review team of the organization. My role is to design training modules, conduct training of the professionals and conducting mid-term and end term reviews of the programs of Agriculture and Watersheds followed by suggestion and further planning to take the project to the committed outcomes, engagement with partners for better management of the projects .
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Years of Experience:
5-10 years |
Highest Qualification:
Masters |
Languages:
English, Hindi |
Nationality:
Indian
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