Amit Kumar Singh is an agribusiness and market development expert with more than 18 years of experience conceptualizing and executing agriculture and livelihoods development programs in a wide range of value chains in agriculture, horticulture and forestry.

As Tanager’s country representative for India, he provides team leadership and direction for Tanager’s portfolio of supply chain strengthening activities, with a focus on women and landless farmers.

Amit has dedicated his career to strengthening communities and has been responsible for projects that organized more than 100,000 smallholder farmers into self-help and producer groups. He also brings expertise in conducting large-scale research studies, including baseline and end-term assessments for USAID, DFID, the Ford Foundation, and UNIDO, among others, and is passionate about developing new tools using Participatory Rapid Appraisals (PRA). With a master’s in agricultural economics from National Dairy Research Institute, Amit has co-authored two books on value chains and has eleven publications in national and international journals of repute.

Tanager is an international nonprofit that brings people together to co-create economic and social opportunities that change lives. Originally established as Agribusiness Systems International (ASI) in 1993 as an affiliate of ACDI/VOCA, it has been making agriculture work better for people.

In this interview, he answers the following:

1. With 18 years of expertise in conceptualizing and executing agriculture and livelihoods development programs in a wide range of value chains in agriculture, horticulture and forestry, what would you say has changed in the sector and where do you see it heading?

2. How is Tanager making agriculture work better for people?

3. You work around Tanager’s portfolio of supply chain strengthening activities. How do you bring together communities, mainly women and landless farmers, for the same?

4. How do you ease the pilot testing for new technologies and tools to make the communities understand the need and relevance of the same?

5. What are some of the grave challenges that the farmers are facing and how do you intend to solve them?

6. What are some of the future projects that Tanager plans to launch in the country?

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