Savida Agri COM is a brain child of Dr Vivek Damle. Dr Damle is a PhD in Agriculture from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Savida Agri also has distinguished Agri and allied business experts in its advisory board. The advisory board includes University of Illinois Professors, Industry experts and Funding experts for more information on Advisory Board
Savida Agri COM is a blend of scientific agriculture, Information Technology and Business acumen. Savida Agri owns know-how, understanding and vision of utilizing IT for benefits of rural citizen. Savid Agri is involved in all activities of the value chain of the agri-businesses e.g. Pre-production, production and post-production. Additionally Savida Agri concerns itself in projects for rural upliftment involving community based businesses to involvement in other businesses or initiatives which help improving standard of living of villagers.
Dr.Vivek M. Damle
Dr Vivek Damle
Dr. Vivek Damle has over 20 years of experience in the areas of general management, sales and marketing, industry analysis, high-tech research, and business development. He oversees the Global Operations and Corporate Development activities of SkillNet Solutions Inc. U.S.A., a silicon valley based software consulting company. He is the Managing Director of SkillNet Solutions India Private Limited (SSIPL), a Mumbai based software development company.
Dr. Vivek serves as the Chairman of Savida Agri-COM and he is the founder of aginformex.com, nutraindia.com, and indianfarmer.org. Previously, he has worked in the seed industry and agri–biotech sector starting from Indo American Hybrid Seeds, University of Illinois, and was a consultant to Monsanto Company in the U.S.A. and India.
Dr Damle is also involved with different IT, Biotech and Agri companies as an advisor
Dr. Sagarika Vivek Damle
Dr. Sagarika Vivek Damle
Dr Sagarika Damle is PhD in Botony and has more than 20 years experience in academics and research. Besides guiding various PhD scholars under University of Mumbai, Dr Sagarika is also involved with various industry related research projects. Her special interests lie in the field of Life Sciences, Botany, Environmental science and Biotechnology. Some of her research projects with business impacts are ‘Modern Trends in Tissue Culture for Eco sustainability’ and “Promotion of Cluster Plantation of Indigenous plant species For Urban Greening in MMRDA Region” just to name few. She has presented and published many papers, articles and lectures. She has attended many conferences and has been invited as guest speaker as well.
Currently, Dr Sagarika is working with KC College in Mumbai as an Associate Professor. Here she has been awarded by KC Ratna award for her outstanding contribution at KC college. She has also been recognized with many other honors.
Mr. Suhas Damle
Suhas Damle
Mr. Suhas Damle has a prolific experience of 33 years in post harvest fisheries research under Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). He worked in senior scientific positions and implemented various projects on preservation, processing and utilization of fish and fishery resources. He has worked as an expert member for export of fish products to European Union and has been actively involved in approval of fish processing plants of world standards. He has expertise in fish processing technology, food standards, HACCP, and quality issues.
Mr Suhas Damle has experience of erecting and operating food processing plants and producing customer centric quality products. He takes special interest in agricultural cultivation and he has been involved in cultivation of food crops, vegetables and cotton. He holds M.Sc. degree from institute of Science, Nagpur and has done post graduate degree from Central institute of fisheries Education (CIFE), Mumbai.