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ABHAY GANDHE

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India

Mr. Abhay Gandhe has obtained his M Sc degree in Agriculture from Punjabrao Agriculture University, Akola, India, in the year 1986. Post his masters, Mr. Gandhe joined Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation, Pune as a Joint Programme Coordinator- Forestry.
Mr. Abhay Gandhe is a senior agricultural development professional with an experience of more than 25 years on projects for Rural Transformation in India. He has in depth exposure to almost all the agro climatic situations of India. He has more intensively worked in Central Indian tribal areas, flood plains of Northern India and high altitude Himalayas. His areas of expertise include operationalizing end to end project cycles, in building teams in rural areas for managing development sector projects and in evolving large scale stakeholder partnerships. His additional technical competencies includes forestry, fishery and biodiversity conservation. His areas of special interest are photo documentation, innovations for agricultural development at the grassroots and capacity building of stakeholders from development sector projects.

Mr. Abhay is currently heading the Livelihoods portfolio for the Tata Trusts in India.

Prior to his association with the Tata Trusts, Abhay has been associated as an advisor for agriculture development with NGOs like BAIF- Pune, India and development agencies like NABARD ( National Bank for Agriculture and Rural development), India.

Abhay has worked extensively on developing horticultural crops for small holder farmers particularly in central Indian tribal areas and on Bamboo resource development. A major achievement of the Bamboo program developed by him is to maintain a collection of more than 50 Bamboo species in Maharshtra thus ensuring availability of planting material for all of them.

Some of his significant ongoing technical assignments include agroforestry for small holder farmers, value chain developments for apricots and walnuts in high altitude Himalayas and crop diversification in the rice dominant northern floodplains of India.

He strongly believes in giving back to the society particularly those living in to challenging situations. His association with the Tata Trusts is a big opportunity of doing so on a scale.