Dr. Akhilesh Kumar

Dr. Akhilesh Kumar is a Plant Biotechnologist by education but now turned into an Agri-entrepreneur. After spending 15 years of his academic research on transgenic development (GM crop), he realized that he needed to focus on applied science. He spent four years of his academic career, as a visiting scientist in Israel, working at Volcani Centre (Ministry of Agriculture and Research Organization). His academic journey has been accomplished with a US patent, several international publications. After having exposure of the Israeli start-up ecosystem, he decided to return to India and worked at the first Centre of Excellence (Indo-Israeli project) at Gharaunda in Karnal (Haryana). 

 Later, he founded his own consultancy firm called Eden Horticulture Services (www.edenhorti.in) and is in the process of promoting Hi-Tech horticulture in India. Eden motto is to Educate: Empower and Employ the people. He has consulted several agriculture projects in more than 15 states of India thus having good knowledge of crop cluster and supply chain management.  

Dr Akhil is working as advisor for few Israeli companies (ABZ Agri – Global Agriculture & Rural Development) and representing India as local leader at Volcani International Partnership (Leadership | Volcani International Partnerships (vipartnerships.org). Eden Horticulture provides hands on training, consultancy, educational projects and conducts Agri-study tours. He also publishes a bi-monthly magazine named EDEN HORTI (RNI HARENG/2017/74778) to educate people about emerging potential in the horticulture sector. 

Dr Akhil also lends a hand to budding entrepreneurs to develop innovative products in the agriculture domain through mentorships.