Dr Saurav Barman is the Chief Executive officer of AgriZhero. Dr Saurav began his
career in Centurion University, Odisha, where he served as Associate Professor in
Agricultural Chemistry and Soil Science for 10 years.
He is a Proficient on Technology transfer to Farming community with Livelihood
development. He actively worked in across 30 districts of Odisha through different
Agriculture Skill oriented projects which are being funded by National Skill
Development Cooperation, New Delhi. He trained 100k+ farmers on different
Agriculture job roles. His core interest area on Soil Health Management through
Organic farming. For the last ten years he is into Organic Farming through Research,
Practice and Promotion (RPP) mechanism. His mission for sustainable agricultural
practices will march ahead with the Objectives: Traditional, Innovative and
Scientific.
AgriZhero is focused on strengthening the sustainable growth of the Indian farming
Community with a wider focus on Small and Marginal farmers and extensive training
of youth in Modern and Digital Agriculture.
Dr Saurav believes in the power of collaboration and inter-sectoral
partnerships. Under his leadership, AgriZhero has been one of the sustainably growing
agri-based enterprise in domestic player with strong presence in the natural
ecofriendly products.
Dr Nilanjana Datta is the Head- Research and Development wing in AgriZhero with
responsibility for driving on ground research performance, frontline demonstration
and execution for all the underlying working dimension, ranging from Crop
Production, Post Harvest & value addition, Speciality Horticulture crop guide to crosscutting
initiatives like Digital and Analytics and Shared Services.
Prior to AgriZhero, she was an Assistant Professor at Centurion University, Odisha in
the Department of Horticulture. Recipient of University Gold Medal and Certificate of
Merit for securing first position in Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya in M.Sc
(Hrticulture). She has also qualified the ICAR-NET in 2016. She has presented papers
in numerous national and international seminars and conferences. She also published
variable research articles in national and international rated journals.
Dr Nilanjana has long experience in varied roles of Agri-Farm development,
Operations, Research guiding, Projects, Strategic Planning and general
management. She played an instrumental role in the scale up of our Research
footprint, developmental excellence in her role as the leader for the R & D chain.