About
Founder of ApiCare in Sikkim, now looking for digital transformation, operations and data work. Building FarmLedger.
I'm Nikhil Pradhan. I'm from Sikkim, in the Eastern Himalaya, and most of my work so far has been setting up systems in places that had none.
In 2021 I founded ApiCare, a honey business in Sikkim, the state of India where all farming is certified organic. We buy from 150+ smallholder beekeepers and farmers across three districts. I handled the whole build: the strategy and daily operations, the farmers and government partners, monitoring and reporting, finding funding, and releasing the product. In 2025 the Government of India (Dept. of Commerce & Industries, Sikkim) selected ApiCare as a private-sector training partner under RAMP, a World Bank-financed MSME programme. Our supply chain has been through three KPMG audit cycles with no findings. I still run the systems ApiCare works on, and I picked tools the team in India can maintain without me.
Under RAMP I designed the entrepreneurship and food-processing curriculum and taught it, partly myself and partly through a Master Trainer I trained. I also run the training records on the state's Sikkim Entrepreneurs Connect platform, from registrations and attendance to certificates and outcomes, and write the compliance reports the department and its auditors review. So far we've trained 125+ people. I'm now leading the second round, a EUR 29,000 work order across five locations that runs from July 2026 to March 2027.
Between 2023 and 2025 I also worked as an independent consultant for small hotels and homestays in Sikkim and Darjeeling. Most of them had no website or online bookings when I started, so I built the websites, connected the booking and channel-manager systems, and ran their social media.
In 2025 I started the Erasmus Mundus MBA in Impact Entrepreneurship (EMMIE). It took me from Zagreb to Vilnius and, in September 2026, to Liège. I graduate in December 2026.
Alongside the MBA I'm building FarmLedger, which is also my thesis. It records each sale a farmer makes to customers, businesses and FPOs, and AI turns that history into a credit profile a bank could lend against. The same records give buyers the traceability that EU rules (EUDR) will require from 2027. You can try the live demo.
What's next
I'm looking for digital transformation work: systems, reporting and data, ideally where AI is part of the job. I can start an internship now and a full-time role from March 2027. I'm based in Belgium and have work permits for Belgium and the Netherlands. Later, once FarmLedger is done, I'd like to bring this work to digital roles in the development sector.