Veeranagowda C K

Seed Processing and Handling.

• Led centralized seed handling and processing teams across corn, rice, and millet research projects, ensuring operational efficiency and alignment with research objectives.
• Developed and implemented time-efficient, end-to-end seed handling procedures and protocols, and won a global-level award for seed handling.
• Collaborated cross-functionally to design and execute a fully automated seed handling system, enhancing process efficiency and integration across teams.
• Managed seed inventory and ensured accurate tracking and storage by implementing digital solutions for tracking seed inventory, including RFID tags, barcode scanning, and cloud-based databases.
• Collaborated with breeding teams, mechanization team, automation team, and commercial teams, and delivered trial kits on time for trials.
• Managed a complex supply chain by coordinating closely with corn and rice breeding teams to deliver inbred sowing kits to multiple hybrid seed production farms and nurseries. Ensuring timely and precise distribution.

Seed Production.

Results-oriented seed production professional with proven experience in independently managing seed production farms. Skilled in overseeing end-to-end operations—from planting to harvesting, and processing—while ensuring optimal resource utilization and high-quality output.

• Inbred line observation and data generation for the line for different segments.
• Led seed production in independent farms and leased farmer fields (short-term lease), along with the centralized teams. Ensured regulatory compliance and applied efficient seed production practices aligned with industry standards.
• Managed nursery seed increase and hybrid seed production for corn – managed overall crossing blocks, isolations.
• Developed and implemented protocols for Corn hybrid seed production and seed increase in:
  I. Open field- company farms, farmers field and independently managed farm
  II. Net house cultivation- controlled environment.
• Supported millet hybrid seed production in greenhouses.

Research

• Pollen Storage Study: Conducted research on pollen storage techniques to optimize pollen viability and fertility.
• Successfully produced hybrid seeds by conducting pollination on rainy days.
• Artificial anther burst – Developed and implemented a technique for artificial anther burst to release pollen in corn.
• Developed a pollination dusting box to facilitate efficient pollination in corn for breeding teams and production teams, especially with low pollen load testers or inbred males.
• Developed and implemented a method to reduce the internodal length of corn in a net house.

• Hands-on experience in physiological seed testing of corn, rice, and vegetable seeds. seeds.
• Investigated customer complaints regarding product quality issues.
• Standard germination tests, vigor tests, usable transplant tests, and cold germination tests.