Amit Saha

Experience

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  Professional Assistance For Development Action (PRADAN)

  Sept 1996 - Nov 1996

  Development Executive

  Worked in watershed projects of PRADAN in Kishangarh block of Alwar district in Rajasthan in community organization and in project execution of building checkdams, irrigation management and water management.

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  Chambal Fertilisers and Chemicals Limited

  Jun 1997 - Jun 1998

  Marketing Executive

  Work involved appointment of dealers and subdealers, distributors and warehouse management, rake handling; inventory management, credit handling, accounts management, demonstration of fertilizer and pesticide application through extension education, plot demos and adverstisement strategies

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  IFCN Dairy Research Network

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2011

  Dairy economist

  Was responsible for monitoring database of typical dairy farm types in Asia; analysis of data and presentation of results; working on farm modelling to analyse, benchmark, develop stochastic models for risk minimization and identifying best options for increasing productivity.

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  Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Germany

  Jun 2001 - Dec 2001

  DAAD Fellow

  Worked in University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany with Prof. Dr. W. Doppler in developing a goal program for optimizing dairy farming systems using GAMS Software for my PhD

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  FAO

  Nov 2003 - Dec 2003

  Consultant

  Execution of the project on PPLI (ProPoor Livestock Inititative) on benchmarking, impact and risk analysis of dairy farming systems in India.Worked in Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana with local,cooperative, public and private stakeholders.Two working papers published out of the study.

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  Institute of Farm Economics, TI Braunschweig Germany

  Jan 2004 - Oct 2005

  Post doctorate

  2. Worked in Federal Agriculture Research Centre, Braunschweig, Germany as post-doctoral research fellow in analysis of smallholder dairy development for developing countries. During this project served as consultant to FAO in ProPoor Livestock Project Initiative (PPLPI) for its project in Haryana, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa for risk analysis of smallholder dairy farming . A number of publications were based on these studies.

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  National Dairy Development Board

  Nov 2005 - Dec 2014

  Manager

  1. Providing intelligence and need based consultancy on strategic and operational decision making by management in National and International issues, Market related and farm level issues in dairy industry2. Providing need based reports to the management on the dairy related issues and parliament questions as and when needed3. Held the position of MIS I/charge of Raipur District Cooperative Milk Producers Union Limited for one year under rehabilitation project.4. Routing of milk collection routes for Raipur milk union and Jalgaon milk union using GPS and ArcGIS software for optimizing milk transportation costs and route planning.5. Management of Internet Based Dairy Information System for 4 states – Maharasthra, Madhya Pradesh, Goa and Chattisgarh on a monthly basis covering about 32 milk unions and 5 metro dairies on about 700 variables related to milk procurement, input services, prices, marketing, processing, accounts and organizational development of cooperatives. This covered a communication network with over 60 officials from different cooperatives.6. Managing an international project on cost of milk production as country partner. The project involved setting up typical dairy farms from 6 states covering the country. The task was of organizing data collection, training of supervisors, data valiadation and model running using a harmonized softwared for international cost comparison , TIPICAL of IFCN.7. Undertaking training of Union officials in managing information system and providing MIS reporting to management Show less

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  Lupin Human Welfare & Research Foundation

  Feb 2007 - Feb 2007

  PRA Expert

  PRA ( Participatory Rural Appraisal) expert in World Bank Poverty Initiative Project in conducting poverty mapping and identifying opportunities for poverty alleviation in Bharatpur , Rajasthan through grassroot level community mobilization and field studies

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  IFCN Dairy Research Center

  Jan 2015 - now

  Farm Comparison - managing the data sourcing, analysis and reporting - Team leader of the Dairy Farm Analysis Group - Farming Systems Research - Global dairy sector economic analysis - Consultancy projects on dairy sector analysis - Presentation on dairy analytical issues in key events globally - Innovative ways of analysing, developing KPIs and tools for farm analysis Show less

  • Dairy Consultant

    Nov 2019 - now

  • Senior Researcher

    Jan 2015 - Oct 2019
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  FoGS Global Network

  Jan 2019 - Apr 2021

  Founder and CEO

  Our mission is to spearhead frontier technologies in food, health and livelihoods in an interactive and symbiotic manner to enhance the development of sustainable food systems globally.

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  Herbalife Nutrition

  Nov 2019 - Jul 2022

  Senior Consultant

  Consulting and coaching for holistic wellness

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  FOGS Global Research & Consultancy Centre

  Apr 2021 - now

  Founding Director and CEO

  Disrupting the dairy and fresh herbal value chain through frontier innovations

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  FresHerbal Ahmedabad

  Apr 2021 - now

  Director