CABD

CENTER FOR AGRI BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

IRDG FOCUSING ON COMMERCIALISATION OF ORGANIC AND PROTECTED CULTIVATION

Team Members

Director Operations

Naga Narendran Business Consultant

International Consultants

Jana Jananayagam Bachelor of Science in Engineering, University of Ceylon, 1970, Diploma in Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Manuka Institute of Technology, 1998 and Masters in International Trade and Commerce Law, Macquarie University, 2007

Param Paramanathan BSc Eng, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, MSc Water Resources Technology, UK. Chartered Engineer & Member, Institution of Civil Engineers, UK

Janaki Kuhanendran Economist / NGO Program Management. M.Phil Economics with Development Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, PgCert Research Methods for Social Science and Health King’s College London, University of London

Gunaratnam Kandakumar- Electrical Engineer /Project Manager Electrical Engineer University of East London (Qualified in 1981)

Local Executives

Project Executive IRDG, Jeromias Chendooran BSc Agriculture (Hons), MBA

Project Director (Commercial Organic cultivation) Mahesan Pathmashankar B.Sc. Agriculture (SP)(Hons), MBA

Engineering support services Jeevanathan Derone Niles. HND in civil engineering

Live stock and on-field implementation Kaneshapillai Kirekaran Diploma in agriculture

Field Supervisor KHC Ltd Annvinothiney Selvanagakam Filexbala

Project Director Mullai Commercial Peanut Farmers Ltd Sothilingam Piratheeban

International Volunteer Partners

Saru Sivapalan. Corporate and Commercial law from Australia

Sujan Selven. Telecommunications technician from Australia

Tamilini Narendran BSc Business IT from Australia (Project Director IRDG Virtual Office).

Collaboration Partners

MOU with the University of Jaffna for community outreach and Agribusiness Development

Otthulaippu A UK Charity Personal development and capacity building of individuals and teams

Comdu.it is a growing global network of diaspora change makers committed to the sustainable development of the North and East of Sri Lanka. We currently operate in Canada and Germany.

Visions Global Empowerment Partners for human capacity building

Palmera Creating a world where no one is left out by supporting farmers and rural entrepreneurs

Vetri Holdings LLC Stepping Stone to make Jaffna the next Silicon Valley

Yarl IT Hub a community to create an eco system which nurtures startup mindset, innovation, creativity, technological and business skills in the community. It also encourages knowledge sharing and fostering a spirit of entrepreneurship with IT start ups from Jaffna.

Senzmate Offers best of breed solutions and framework enables IoT communication like no one else does. Giving you ability to harness power of "Internet of Things" and achieve multi fold improvement in effectiveness of your business processes. Overtime we have identified existing problems across multiple sectors which could have been solved by new IoT technologies and offering most innovative systems solutions.