Niladri Giri — Operations Associate

I've spent over a decade not in Bangalore's air-conditioned offices, but in the muddy fields of Odisha's tribal districts. While tech conferences celebrate ₹39,000 crore AI markets, I've watched 73% of farmers reject these "solutions." Why? Because I've seen what they've seen: → AI tools that fail when crops die (who pays?) → "Free" apps that become subscription traps → Farm data sold without consent Last monsoon, I sat with a tribal farmer in Koraput who had just switched from paddy to finger millet. Not because an app told him to. Because an extension worker showed up at his field — five times — with soil data and a seed kit. That's the work no one puts in a pitch deck. I write about the gap between what gets funded and what actually works. The distance between a policy announcement in Delhi and a farmer's reality in Rayagada. The stories that don't fit neatly into an investor deck or a government press release. If you build for farmers — I'll tell you what the field says. If you fund agriculture — I'll show you where the money disappears. If you make policy — I'll introduce you to the people it lands on. I write because the field doesn't have a LinkedIn account.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a specialist in agricultural development and farmer engagement.

Location: Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Experience: 12 yrs 4 mos