Padmakumar Varijakshapanicker

Padmakumar Varijakshapanicker

ILRI Country Representative for Nepal

Padmakumar Varijakshapanicker has been working with International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) since 2009 and is currently managing Asia hub of the Livestock System Innovation Lab, a Feed the Future initiative of US Government, implemented by University of Florida and International Livestock Research Institute.  He is also the Acting Head of ILRI’s NIRS Feed Technology Platform at Patancheru, Hyderabad, India. Padmakumar is a post-graduate in Tropical Animal Production & Health, graduated from the Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, U.K.  He has been working in the livestock sector for more than three decades and brings with him an impressive research for development experience in the developing countries including India, Nepal and Cambodia.  

My Blog Posts

Buffalo at a watering point on a farm in Sunsari District, Nepal (photo credit: ILRI/Yanamani Nepal).

ILRI News

NEXUS Gains Initiative to develop strategy for efficient dairy production in water-stressed region of Nepal

  ILRI team visits the field office at Tarahara, Nepal on 2 May 2023. (ILRI / Suresh Basnet)

Village Livestock Promoters get new dairy data app to support smallholder buffalo farmers in Nepal