Neha Patil

Key Contributions:

• AI in Agriculture Policy: Led the preparation of AI-driven policy frameworks to enhance agricultural productivity and innovation.
• Project Assistance: Provided strategic support for multiple government-led agricultural initiatives, including:
• Natural Farming: Assisted in promoting eco-friendly and sustainable agricultural practices, and strategies for the implementation of NMNF in the state.
• Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF):Monitoring and evaluating the progress of the scheme.
• Cluster Development Program (CDP): Strategic intervention for the implementation of the scheme.
• Carbon Farming: Study carbon sequestration techniques to enhance soil health, combat climate change, and develop the framework for the implementation of the project in the state.
• Integrated Lab: Developed a strategy and recommended ideas for the implementation of the project in the state.
• Farmer One-Stop Solution (Integrated Call Centre) studied the model and suggested establishing a centralized support system to provide farmers with real-time assistance.

Skills & Competencies:

• Policy formulation
• strategic planning
• project management, and implementation.
• AI applications in agriculture
• stakeholder engagement and collaboration
• data-driven decision-making,
• Sustainable farming and climate resilience.
• Agricultural infrastructure development.

• Carbon Farming, sustainable Agriculture project implementation at FPO & organizational level.
• Analyze data or insights to determine industry and consumer trends.
• Devise long-term development strategies for product categories.
• Develop exit strategies for unsuccessful products.
• Foster trust relationships with vendors to achieve better pricing and quality of services.
• Place appropriate orders to ensure product availability that meets consumer demands.
• Determine the positioning of a product category to maximize visibility.
• Liaise with marketing teams to determine competitive pricing and promotional activities of a product category.
• Collaborate with buyers and merchandisers to expand product categories.
• Make forecasts for product demand to ensure the sustainability of inventory.
• Assume responsibility of budget development and revenue for category.

• Develop and maintain cordial relationship at all times with Companies/Vendors.
• Carry out procurement (placing of order, making necessary payments, and documentation of purchases) of new products for the category and take stock of inventory at all times to know when it is time to place orders for new products.
• Create and develop long-term plans and strategies for the success of assigned product category.
• Create exit strategies for products that are not successful in the market.
• Analyze data concerning particular products in a bid to understand trends and consumer needs.
• Private label Launch as per market demand & plan Marketing strategy for product positioning and promotion.
• Ensuring quality products to farmers.
• Handling product complaints, giving appropriate solutions & resolving.
• Work hand-in-hand with the marketing team to determine pricing models and any form of promotional activity that will enhance sales.
• Relay information about new products and changes to sales teams.
• Help in the development of budgets and management of expenses.
• Improve profitability year on year with product and pricing strategies.
• Attend to customers' needs effectively.
• Directed daily operations of the department, ensuring compliance with established policies and procedures.

• Planning & monitoring day to day activity of the plant from inward to dispatch.
• Planning & monitoring processing, treatment, packing & dispatch scheduled.
• Collect order / RSP from S&M team & prepare order schedule( Domestic & International).
• Analyze and maintain accurate regional planning data as the source data for supply chain performance and interdepartmental operations.
• Back end support for new product launch for both Domestic & International team.
• Looking after daily order reports to coordinate with the dispatch section & sales team for streamlining the indent dispatches as per the priority & availability.
• Coordinate with Domestic & International marketing team as a single point of contact and solve the issues as and when required.
• Analyze data and act as a central point of communication between stakeholders (Inventory, QA, logistics, S&M, customer service, and production) to resolve and translate focused problem to meaningful communication.
• Coordinating with Quality department for Germ/GOT results & frequently visiting fields for crop observations.
• Negotiating with vendors for cost-efficient business & monitoring the same.
• Prepare cost-effective dispatch schedule to minimize the transportation cost.
• Coordinate with the Sales Return Dept for timely loose & movement of seed to cold Storage.
• Implement systems and processes to ensure continuous improvement in the supply chain for customer satisfaction.
• Monitor and rectify causes of mistakes and thus ensure quality of work at each point.
• Complaint & record management for necessary action & proper follow-up.
• Forecast sales volume for inventory planning & work with HODs to determine production plan, Inventory, quantity & timing.
• Conduct transportation vendor Competitor analysis by keeping abreast of market trends and competitor moves.

• Analyze regional sales plan and recommend action to maintain consistency and accuracy of the demand plan and sales forecast.
• Generating and sending sales, Expense, collection & aging reports on daily/weekly/Monthly/quarterly basis.
• Analyze data and act as a central point of communication between stakeholders (logistics, S&M, Finance, customer service, and production) to resolve inconsistencies.
• Translate focused problem resolution to meaningful communication to Management & validate the accuracy of data in ERP.
• Market Research-collect the market information w.r.t market potentiality-both area & volume, seasons, cropping pattern, net price to the distributors of products, USPs of the major selling hybrids, etc.
• Prepare marketing plans state-wise, based on the market information collected from the market for major crops.
• Handling complete client servicing, key & corporate customer communication and contact center functions akin for foreign clients.
• Looking after daily order reports to coordinate with the dispatch section & sales team for streamlining the indent dispatches as per the priority & availability.
• Facilitating all customers by acting as a single point for all services rendered.
• To analyze and maintain accurate regional planning data as the source data for supply chain performance, financial reporting, and interdepartmental operations.
• Promotional Marketing Planning and supply of Promotional material to the respective states as per the demand.
• Collection & compilation of market potentials & other related market information.
• Coordinate with concerned Managers, breeders, production, QA for Product registration, Product inclusion and seed License, for respective states.
• Resolved customer complaints quickly and effectively while maintaining a high level of professionalism.
• Utilized knowledge of company products and services to make recommendations and up-sell items according to customer needs.
• Oversaw daily financial transactions and managed cash flow to support profitability.
• Monitored sales performance to identify potential areas for improvement.

• A study on feasibility of applying e- commerce tools and develop a prototype for Fertilizer Company with special Reference to RCF

• Agriculture processing management.

• · Management of agriculture allied enterprise