Dinesh Kar

Background

About Dinesh Kar

Co-Founder of Crop Intellix Private Limited. We specialize in data analytics and tech solutions for agriculture & agroforestry stakeholders in Carbon Market and tech support to other agribusinesses Other roles: Advisor in a geospatial consulting company Guest faculty in agriculture institutes and colleges Mentor to two Agritech startups Mentor at IIT ECell Board member in a PG College I am a solution-oriented agriculture professional with 26 years of experience in the agribusiness ecosystem. My skills are in conceptualizing digital solutions for key stakeholders in the agricultural value chain. I also mentor students and young professionals in developing capabilities in digital agriculture. M.Sc. (Agri) with ASRB NET and MBA by qualification. I am a Certified Farm Advisor and certified in Carbon Farming Principles and Sustainable Agriculture Land Management. I have Experience of working in agriculture projects in India Africa SEA and the Middle East. Author of two books "Sensing Agriculture from Space" and "9 R.U.L.E.S to Geospatial Consulting" Solutions Developed: Crop Insurance platform Crop health monitoring Crop Yield Prediction Crop Site Suitability Zonation crop intelligence using Machine Learning techniques on satellite images Resource-conserving farming technique to reduce GHG emissions conceptualized dMRV solution for agriculture carbon International projects; 1. Philippines for World Bank 2. Mozambique for Agro-Ecological Zonation study of MoA 3. Saudi Arabia for Agriculture Change Dynamics and Rangeland Management for MoA 4. Sierra Leone for a land development project for a private investor 5. Malawi for soil erosion assessment and watershed hot spot creation for MoA 6. Kenya for Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative 7. Uganda for Agriculture land development plan preparation using GIS technology 8. Ethiopia to Present keynote paper at International conference on food security and sustainable agriculture 9. China to present a paper at Asia-Pacific Forestry Week 10. Vietnam as project manager for Crop Information System development Worked at the Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture of the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) from 1998 to 2000 and at the National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) of Dept. of Space Government of India from 2000-04. Corporate sector experiences include Agrinet Solutions Speck SpatialTech Limited from 2004-06 RMSI Private Limited from 2006-14 AgSri Agricultural Services Private Limited from 2014 to 2018 and SkyMap India Private Limited from 2019-22