Dr. Praveen Singh, The Khetibadiwala

He is a professional serving agriculture sector from past two decades. His diversified professional experience make him capable in managing different projects in the field of agriculture. Past decade, he have been working for Hydroponics and hi-tech farming.

He is a keen learner and an efficient trainer in the field of Agriculture. His association with different hi-tech farms are delivering result.

He is Doctorate in Agriculture with sound knowledge on crop nutrition and crop production. He topped the university merit list during his graduation. He received university merit scholarship during his masters. His internship was on zero tillage in wheat, where he observed the unique plant development. There were a significant difference in mesocotyl length, in zero tillage the length was almost negligible whereas the same was around two inches in conventional tillage. The impact of this length was such that the wheat maturity was around one week early in zero tillage.

Dr. Praveen in his professional journey served different organizations and roles. He started his professional journey from a Rural Development Project from European Commission. This project was on Ravine Stabilization in and around Yamuna river bank starting from Firozabad till Fatehpur district of Uttar Pradesh. In this project, he developed yield maximization model and two Ravine seeders. This model has reduced the slope from 80-100 meter to 12-15 inches, which led to reducing the runoff and ensure healthy crop in the area.

Post his assignment in rural development, he moved to agribusiness corporate and served the fertilizer industry. While working with TATA Chemicals, he contributed for development of Customized Fertilizer, Branded Compost and outsource farm services like foliar spray and harvesting services. He has also worked with Nagarjuna Fertilizer, Hyderabad and Indorama Fertilizer, Nigeria.

His assignment in Ethiopia was on corporate farming and he managed to lease 25,000 ha of land from Ethiopian Government. This was his first assignment of managing the company as National Head.

He has also worked as Joint Director at National Horticulture Research and Development Foundation, Nashik, where he was responsible for seed business and development activities of the organization.

He started his Hydroponic journey from DS Group, Noida. He was the founder member of Hydroponic team. In this assignment, he started from hydroponic project concept, identification of vendor, installation of project and crop production. During this assignment, he managed soilless hydroponic growing system and grown essential oil bearing crops like Jasmin and Damask Rose. He successfully grown saffron in Delhi during this assignment. Post this he moved to one of the Dabur group company and developed a Hydroponic unit from scratch. In this project, he managed different hydroponic growing systems like NFT, Soilless and Dutch bucket and different vegetable crops like Lettuce, Kale, Basil, Rocket, Arugula, Cherry Tomato, Capsicum, Cucumber and medicinal herbs.

He is working as independent consultant and extending his services to different hi-tech farms in Delhi, Maharashtra and Assam. He is also working with National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) on modern farming model and capability building initiatives.

He is well connected to hi-tech growers and on social media platforms. He is known as "The Khetibadiwala" and extending his support to different hi-tech growers.