ABOUT KISAANU
Kisaanu runs model farms, orchards, bio-input production and community plantation programmes in Amethi, with a research collaboration in Finland.
THE ROLE
We are empanelling a Consultant Advisor we can call on, as and when required, for full-day engagements: workshops, consulting sessions, advisory reviews or training delivery. Physical or virtual. No minimum commitment.
Two areas:
1. CAPITAL. Non-dilutive funding across NABARD, the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund, NHB and MIDH, CGTMSE-backed credit and FPO-linked routes.
2. CAPABILITY. Training our agriculture graduates and apprentices in farm economics and scheme literacy, so every field associate can advise a farmer on the credit and subsidy they are entitled to.
WHAT WE WOULD CALL YOU FOR
- Scheme mapping and eligibility assessment
- AIF eligibility structuring and application preparation
- Reviewing our DPR and projections against bank appraisal criteria
- Amethi credit landscape briefings: lead bank, agri-active branches, PLP priorities, DCC and DLRC cycles
- FPO formation advisory
- NHB and MIDH routes for our orchard blocks
- Full-day training workshops for our apprentice and junior cohort
ESSENTIAL
- Retired NABARD DDM / AGM / DGM, OR retired LDM / Chief Manager (Agriculture) from a PSB or RRB
- 15+ years in agricultural credit or district credit administration
- Direct experience of the Awadh belt: Amethi, Sultanpur, Rae Bareli, Pratapgarh or Ayodhya
- Agri proposals prepared or appraised through to sanction
- Fluent Hindi and Awadhi. Comfortable in a village and in front of a room of twenty-two-year-olds
- Written confirmation of eligibility under post-retirement service rules
PREFERRED
- FPO promotion under the NABARD-implemented scheme
- Hands-on AIF portal experience
- Horticulture financing: NHB back-ended subsidy,