, is a member of the Appropriate Scale Mechanization for Sustainable Intensification Consortium, which received a $2.24 million grant to scale technologies for smallholder farmers in West Africa, Bangladesh and Cambodia.
For many years, I have worked to help small farmers in developing countries grow, thrive and climb out of the poverty cycle.
From my grass-roots work in Western India with “marginal” farmers, who own or are sharecroppers for land under 1 hectare or 2.5 acres in area, where I helped to establish micro-finance societies enabling these farmers to fund asset purchases, to my supervision of a 12-year infrastructure project for the largest dairy in Asia processing about 1.5 million kilograms of milk daily, procured from 4.5 million milk producers my background and interests help me to enable millions of farmers to be successful.