Saroj Adhikari

Experience

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  Chaudary Groups North South Seed Company (CGNS)

  Dec 2016 - Aug 2017

  Production Manager

  CGNS is a seed company located in Sunsari, Nepal. This company produces hybrid seeds on their farm and also through contract farming with farmers. The main aims of this company are to distribute good quality seeds to farmers and uplift farmers' living standards making them able to earn more from contract farming.While working there for 8 months I fulfilled the following responsibilities: Trained junior technicians on hybrid seed production of vegetables (Cucurbitaceae, eggplant, tomato, etc.)  Monitored seed hybridization on company's and farmers' fields Recorded all the harvesting done in and out of the company Identified possible outlets and future partners for seed distribution Established a good way of keeping inventory by training staff on using common computer software like excel Used additional 3 acres of land for production Show less

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  University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

  Aug 2017 - Dec 2019

  Graduate Research Assistant

  I worked as a research assistant for two and half years during my Master's degree at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. I prepared a proposal identifying the experimental auction as the right tool to use to elicit consumers' willingness to pay for newly developed catfish products, developed by USDA. After approval of the proposal, we conducted an experimental auction along with the sensory analysis of the catfish products. I utilized the data generated from the auction to analyze the preferences of consumers for different sensory attributes before tasting and determined their willingness to pay for the products. I was able to publish a paper in Aquaculture Economics and Management journal in 2020. Show less

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  Oklahoma State University

  Jan 2020 - Jul 2023

  Graduate Research Associate

  My Ph.D. research is on exploring the adoption behavior of private landowners, who own rangelands on the southern Great Plains of the United States, for adopting best rangeland management practices (Patch-burn grazing and Mixed-species grazing). I prepared a proposal to conduct this research and was approved my commitee members. I developed a survey and sent it through mail to the landowners. My survey tries to collect information on the awareness level of the landowners for the practice and whether they are conducting those practices on their land or not. I have developed a choice experiment (Best-worst choice experiment) within my survey to elicit landowners' preferences and willingness to pay for different desired outcomes generated for those practices on their land. My survey also tries to explore the relationships between values, attitudes, norms, and their role in predicting the behavioral intention of landowners to conduct those practices on their land. Show less

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  University of Arkansas

  Aug 2023 - now

  Postdoctoral Researcher

  My focus will be more on experimental economics especially choice experiments.