Naresh Modak
Plant Pathology (Agriculture)
Nashik
Summary
A passionate and result oriented Techno commercial professional with 8.5 years after Ph.D. (Plant Pathology) in vegetable seeds business being experience of , Technology Development MST-Veg and having management experience of top leading R & D sites of vegetable research and operations… Adapted interdepartmental coordination & communication as well as effective handling of external stalk holders. Strong pathology skills and capable of assessing the new diseases identification with combinations under various climatic conditions. Strong believer and adaptation of health, safety, environment (HSE) in every work activity at work place. Developed one tomato hybrids as well as Cotton + Cucumber innovative program established in MP area years at Monsanto. Expertise in field diagnosis in diseases & pest identification and critical diseases sample collection Expertise in deliver affective training to Full time employees and Farmer level also.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
3
3
English, Hindi, Marathi
Work History
Manager Product Development
Seedworks International Pvt. Ltd
09.2019 - Current
- Management, evaluation & advancement of pre commercial material trials of vegetables (Hot Pepper, Tomato, Crucifers, Melons, Watermelon, Cucumber Bitter Gourd etc.)
- Recording of quantitative & qualitative observation, pest & disease data, statistical analysis, report writing, decision making & presentation
- Technical presentation, training to internal and external stack holders
- Developed COE area every region to showcase stockholder & Farmer to know new upcoming hybrid
- Maintain all agronomical trail to showcase to stockholder & training materials developed about product USP
- Design, implement and adjust various financial plans for the project (COE) and with a focus of selecting the pockets as per the climatic & soil conditions for vegetables
- Focus on untapped area as well as competitive markets to convert the existing brands into power brands through rigorous field activities i.e
- Field demos, farmer meeting and farmer contacts by self and team members
- Customer relationship development Established professional relationship with the University Scientists, Government Officials & key customers- Distributors for sustainability of the business
- Cross functional relation Fastidious attitude towards all cross function team –R & D team -Breeders, Pathologist, Entomologist, Testing & Operation Team as well as Sales & Marketing being well familiar with basics of these cross functionalities maintains comfort level with business development team
- Member of Product Acceleration Team for new launches i.eTomato
- Part of direct network of Technology Development and business development located throughout the region
- Set the goals of multi location trials on board and pursuing them and setting directions, motivations, timely feedback and suggestions and help Business Development for effective work out and sustainable growth
- CONTRIBUTIONS
- Naresh Modak, Ph.D
- Tested more than 20 new products / Vegetable crop hybrids at State Agriculture Universities (SAU Testing) for product registrations
- Maintain good relationship with Scientists across Universities & Centre Institutes as well as officials from Dept
- Of Agriculture
- 45 hybrid registration done at Gujrat state Agriculture Office Gandhinagar
Quality Assurance Executive
Monsanto Holdings Pvt. Ltd
Jalna
06.2016 - 09.2019
- Responsible for implementation Quality program like CSP Inspection, Training Field teams on Quality check & Clean Seed Production (CSP), Sanitation control in seed production ABC quality
- Responsible for QMS, Risk Assessment, regional documentations review for audit, quality culture, continual improvement effective risk management, training to field team
- Effective training deliver to full time employees for CSP includes critical diseases awareness how they impact on seed production area
- Field audit for every year to reduces risk form field or area
- Sample collection from production field as well as commercial field to identified diseases pressure area
- Taking internal audit various department like
- SPR, Seed sanitation and seed production both location (MH & KA)
- Prepare and implement the production plan in the required acreages
- To regularly visit and inspect production fields and collect & update the information on general crop condition, roughing, synchronization, diseases, pests and yield
- Retaining, identifying & developing appropriate coordinator sand farmers where there is a potential for growth
- Training the field development officers& support staff on the best practices & actions required to be taken depending upon the situation
- Prepare all the required reports on seed production field and submit
- Coordinate with QA and guide coordinator and Field assistants to improve field quality
- To support and execute the ESH and Human rights initiatives in the field locations
- CONTRIBUTIONS
- Naresh Modak, Ph.D
- Special Recognitions ward – CMM (Bacterial Cancer) diseases identification in Himachal Pradesh ( 2017)
- Seed Health Project Support - RRA (2018) & Quality improvement seed production (2018)
- CSP Audit- RRA (2018) more than 500 field audited in single crop
- Has special recognition award in 2018
- Thank you card for Risk Assessment document made for regional level.
Monsanto Holdings Pvt. Ltd, Vegetable Crop
Indore
06.2014 - 06.2016
- Management, evaluation & advancement of pre commercial material trials of vegetables (Hot Pepper, Tomato, Crucifers, Melons, Cucumber etc.)
- Recording of quantitative & qualitative observation, pest & disease data, statistical analysis, report writing, decision making & presentation, Technical presentation, training to internal and external stack holders
- Focus on untapped area as well as competitive markets to convert the existing brands into power brands through rigorous field activities i.e
- Field demos, farmer meeting and farmer contacts by self and team members
- Customer relationship development Established professional relationship with the University Scientists, Government Officials & key customers- Distributors for sustainability of the business
- Cross functional relation Fastidious attitude towards all cross function team –R & D team -Breeders, Pathologist, Entomologist, Testing & Operation Team as well as Sales & Marketing being well familiar with basics of these cross functionalities maintains comfort level with business development team
- Member of Product Acceleration Team for new launches i.e
- Tomato
- Part of direct network of Technology Development and business development located throughout the region
- Set the goals of multi location trials on board and pursuing them and setting directions, motivations, timely feedback and suggestions and help Business Development for effective work out and sustainable growth
- CONTRIBUTIONS
- Naresh Modak, Ph.D
- Played a key team player role in the introduction and establishment of the new products across geography i.e Tomato – Garv, Ashoka, Cauliflower – SV3630AC, Hot pepper- Sitara Gold, SV2319HP & Watermelon – Madhav.
Education
Ph.D - Agriculture, Plant Pathology
MPKV
M.Sc. - Agri, Plant Pathology
AAIDU
B.Sc. - Agri
RBCA College of Agriculture
Skills
Special Recognitions ward – CMM (Bacterial Cancer) diseases identification in Himachal Pradesh ( 2017)undefined
Timeline
Manager Product Development
Seedworks International Pvt. Ltd
09.2019 - Current
Quality Assurance Executive
Monsanto Holdings Pvt. Ltd
06.2016 - 09.2019
Monsanto Holdings Pvt. Ltd, Vegetable Crop
06.2014 - 06.2016
Ph.D - Agriculture, Plant Pathology
MPKV
M.Sc. - Agri, Plant Pathology
AAIDU
B.Sc. - Agri
RBCA College of Agriculture
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