Souvik Roy

About Souvik Roy

Souvik Roy is a passionate Natural Farming Expert and Consultant, who holds a PGDAEM from MANAGE. He is recognized as a সুস্থায়ী কৃষি\'র কণ্ঠ Top Sustainable Agriculture Voice by LinkedIn and has a profound understanding of environmental and social issues. He is passionate about creating a greener and more sustainable world through Regenerative Agriculture and Natural Farming methods.With a solid foundation in agricultural principles and a profound understanding of environmental and social issues, he has invested in multiple projects across six states in India, impacting the lives and livelihoods of farmers and rural entrepreneurs. He has also worked as a consultant for Grant Thornton Bharat LLP, where he handled data management, progress reporting, and facilitation of government schemes and market linkages for the farmers. He is eager to connect with fellow enthusiasts, experts, and organizations who share his vision for a more sustainable future.He is eager to connect with fellow enthusiasts, experts, and organizations who share his vision for a more sustainable future through Regenerative Agriculture and Natural Farming methods. He has expertise in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), Commodities, and Family Wealth Management. He is also a recipient of the Green Champion Award from TNU.

Experience

1. Lead - Agri Specialists, Annam Ai (Ai - Coe in Agriculture, Govt of India)

   ANNAM.AI

   Jun 2025 — Present · IN

   ANNAM AI - Alliance for Next-Gen Nourishment through Agriculture Modernization (CoE in Agriculture, Government of India)Pioneering AI and Sustainable AgricultureWorking at the intersection of agriculture, artificial intelligence, and Digital Public Infrastructure, this role focuses on shaping how India’s agricultural knowledge evolves into trusted, scalable, and context-aware intelligence systems, enabling hyper-local, expert-led farmer advisories for farmers, researchers, and policymakers.Roles & Responsibilities:+ Architecting a core agricultural intelligence layer enabling AI and AGI systems to reason over crops, soils, climate, risks, and region-specific farming realities.+ Orchestrating a nationally distributed network of agricultural specialists into a continuously learning, state-aware intelligence capability.+ Designing scalable farmer advisory knowledge systems supporting hyper-local, crop-stage-sensitive guidance through expert judgment and machine reasoning.+ Curating Golden Agricultural Intelligence Assets using high-trust, expert-validated knowledge while safeguarding internal validation logic.+ Embedding region-specific agronomic intelligence into AI-driven advisory engines for timely and context-aware farmer support.+ Aligning agricultural domain intelligence with evolving AI architectures to move from information retrieval toward advisory intelligence.+ Translating agricultural expertise into machine-consumable knowledge structures in collaboration with AI and software teams.+ Governing data quality, traceability, and audit readiness for national-scale, public-interest deployment.+ Advancing ACE as a Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for inclusive, interoperable farmer advisory services.+ Stewarding a public-interest mandate ensuring agricultural AI remains scientifically grounded and expert-led.Building national-scale intelligence systems that still think at the level of the individual farmer.

Education

• Belur High School (H.S)

  Higher Secondary (10+2) Education from West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education, Science

• School of Agriculture and Allied Sciences, TNU

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture

• Belur High School (H.S)

  West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE), General Studies

• National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE)

  Post Graduate Diploma in Agricultural Extension Management (PGDAEM), Agricultural Extension