Jayant Deshmukh

Mr. Jayant Deshmukh was a career Government official with over 31 years of vast and varied experience in the field of Agriculture. He served as Director of Agriculture, Maharashtra State, from April 2010 to March 2016 in different capacities. Prior to that he held many important positions in the Department of Agri, Maharashtra. He has rich experience of working from grass root level to the top administration. He has domain expertise in the fields of seed certification, watershed development, crops insurance, agri input management, capacity building, farmers' organization, Organic farming, soil health, etc. He also worked as the Licensing and Regulatory Authority for the agri inputs and have closely coordinated with Govt. of India and the World Bank for successful implementation of their projects. Before joining the Department of Agriculture Maharashtra, Mr. Deshmukh served as Agri. Finance Officer in Bank of Maharashtra for nearly 18 months. Here he gained first-hand knowledge about rural and agricultural finance, rural livelihood issues, co-operation and issues related with recovery of Loans. A postgraduate in Agriculture, Mr. Deshmukh has imparted training in many areas relevant to his work, Training on Soil and water Conservation and Management at the International Irrigation Centre, Utah State University, Logan, USA and training on Rural Development at Feldafing, Munich, Germany, being a few notable among them. He has worked in close coordination with different Cooperative Institutions like the sugar cooperatives, Dist. Cooperative Banks, Multipurpose Societies for successful implementation of Government Programmes.'