Prashant Rangole

Aurangabad ⚫ Maharashtra ⚫ Phone: 8143266992, 9970464465 ⚫ Prashant.rangole@gmail.com

DOB- 25/July1986

AGRONOMIST
• 2 times best Agronomist National award winning professional with total 12 years of experience
• Professional in farm management, farmer field trials and crop management, fertilizer and nutrition
management, disease-pest management, product agronomy & service call handling.
• Good hand in crop management & Agronomy in crops vegetables, Corn, rice, vegetables , exotic
vegetables, sugarcane , fruit crops etc.
• Strong interpersonal skills, soft skills and learning ability.
Skills
⚫ Corn, rice and vegetables agronomy ⚫ Corn & rice Mechanization
⚫ Product evaluation ⚫ Process improvements in Corn / data analysis
⚫ Product placement and growth ⚫ In-house and field trials in Veg & Rice
⚫ New product launch and sampling ⚫ Production research activities in corn & rice
⚫ Technical training to the field staff & dealers. ⚫ Field day and crop tour arrangements.
⚫ Techno-commercial support to marketing staff ⚫ Plant breeding in vegetables
⚫ Product related issue resolving / complaint handling⚫
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Recent Awards
Award for high quality trials, rigorous crop tours & NPL - Best Agronomist National Award - 2020
Award for product placement and establishment – 1 time Emerald , Sapphire 2 times – 2020
Award for good field trials and crop tour – Opal – 2 times – 2019
Award for crop field staff training – Topaz - 2019
Award of Excellence for Outstanding work - 2015
Gracias Award for Outstanding Trial execution - 2014

Professional Experience

SYNGENTA INDIA LTD, HYDERABAD– Multinational Company dealing in seeds/CP

Senior Agronomist, 2/2013 to December 2020 (7 years 10 months)

Working as an Agronomy lead for Maharashtra. Critical decision maker for product evaluation and
positioning.

Job role & selected Accomplishments: Agronomist-Business development

⚫ Identify the products matching with segment need and arrive on value proposition & positioning
⚫ Engage in agronomy research to add product value.-Identify the strength and overcome on
weaknesses in product to position them right. Design and develop key agronomic interventions to
enhance product life cycle.
⚫ Demo and trial execution - Demonstrate the right value to right customer by increased productivity &
profitability.
⚫ Create knowledge pool to support marketing to position the product in right geographies with effective
product value communication.
⚫ Develop techno-commercial attitude within sales team by enhanced product knowledge
⚫ Develop the market information system for better product positioning and product development
through market-crop-competition insights.
⚫ Support to all new technological initiatives & program
⚫ Understand Product Gap and Seek for Solution
⚫ Product launch and its establishment. Strategic product promotion, technical training to field staff.
⚫ Stage 6 advancement – 2 hybrids in 2020 advanced.
⚫ Data recovery – 90% data recovery from MLT’s and 80% from samplings.
⚫ Campaigning activities, pre-season / post season activities.
⚫ Complete crop agronomy with crop specific nutritional and pest-disease management schedule.
 Selected Accomplishments: Seed production technology lead role
⚫ Prepared protocols for process research studies in corn.
⚫ Conducted multiple trials in corn for flowering synchronization with cultural and chemical methods,
crop agronomy improvement studies, and multiple trials to control the FAW. Crop nutritional studies.
⚫ Conducted studies on corn mechanization including harvester, drone use for chemical spraying, drone
use for plant count studies at different age intervals.
⚫ Studied result oriented post emergence in corn.
⚫ Pollen projects like quantification and viability studies in corn.
⚫ Developed and launched rice data capture protocol.
⚫ Created robust protocol by conducting multiple rice mechanization trials (approx. 500 nursery and
field trials conducted).
⚫ Development / Introduction of new technologies in rice like mechanization (Tegra nursery / Allegro).
⚫ Developed a single and transparent SPR project / technology portfolio in Allegro which supports the
individual business growth and efficiency targets.
⚫ Identified projects portfolio, action plan and timeline to make sure continue deliver the benefit.
⚫ Conducted rice mechanization trials and doing advance mechanization research in Andhra Pradesh,
Telangana, Tamilnadu, Punjab and Haryana.
⚫ Created brand image of department with high professional trial execution with high quality data.
⚫ Given advanced solutions for rice mechanization for long lasting results (Project name- Tegra nursery)
⚫ Undergone training of JMP software to analyze data.
⚫ Strong follower of compliance & HSE policies.

MONSANTO HOLDINGS INDIA PVT LTD, Aurangabad, Maharashtra – Multinational Company

dealing in Biotechnology/seed/CP

Professional experience in vegetable seeds research & development wing.

Research Organizer, 8/2007 to 6/2009 and 1/2011 to 12/2011

⚫ Breeding activities in cucurbit crops (bitter guard, bottle guard, sponge guard, ridge guard, cucumber
& watermelon)
⚫ Planning breeder trials, preparing layout, trial execution, timely data collection and reporting.
⚫ Seed in and out management.
⚫ Up to date knowledge about market segments and commercial checks including them in to the trials.
⚫ End to end responsible for all in-house and field activities.
⚫ Single point of contact for mentioned breeding project.
⚫ Excellent Agronomy and crop growing knowledge.
⚫ Extensive traveler.

Selected Accomplishments:
⚫ Primary selection of inbreed lines in vegetables (gourds, cucumber and watermelon).
⚫ Conducted agronomy for cucurbits, tomato, egg-plant, hot pepper.
⚫ DM resistant line primary selection in watermelon.
⚫ Managed breeding blocks in Bitter guard, Bottle guard, ridge guard, sponge guard, cucumber and
watermelon
⚫ Contributed as a part of team in release watermelon and cucumber hybrid
⚫ Enthusiastically organized field days for 3 years.
⚫ Germplasm sorting for all breeding lines in Okra.

DUPONT INDIA LTD, Hyderabad– Multinational Company dealing in Biotechnology/seed/CP

Research Assistant, 12/2011 to 3/2013

Responsible for hybrid rice GMO trials in Hyderabad area, data recording in polyhouse as well as in field.
Responsible for scientific solution with respect to crop health and crop performance. Event comparison.

Selected Accomplishments:
⚫ Agronomy solutions to greenhouse department with timely data capture.
⚫ Devotedly work in insect collection and field trial execution.
⚫ Conducted mock trial on insect raring and its impact on Bt-rice successfully.
⚫ Given excellent Agronomy practices guideline for polyhouse crop management.

Technology
Software: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Education
DR. BAM UNIVERSITY, Aurangabad, Maharashtra
Masters of Science in Botany, 5/2012
⚫ Major: Botany

MPKV UNIVERSITY, Rahuri, Maharashtra

Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, 5/2007
⚫ Major: Agriculture

Contact address

Permanent address – At post hatnur, taluka tasgaon, district ssangli, state Maharashtra,
pin 416314
Current address – C 296, N1 CIDCO, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, pin 431003.