Nikhil Pradhan
Get in touch
Digital transformation · Operations · Data

Building where the rails don't exist yet.

I started ApiCare in Sikkim in 2021 and built its honey supply chain with 150+ smallholder farmers, from the farm work to the systems, reports and funding behind it. I also put small hotels online for the first time. Now I'm building FarmLedger and finishing an Erasmus Mundus MBA in Impact Entrepreneurship.

Get in touch View work
Nikhil Pradhan, in a navy suit, standing against a brick wall
Now Liège, Belgium · Graduating Dec 2026 Internships now · full-time from March 2027 English · Hindi · Nepali · French (A2)
Smallholder farmers
150+
Himalayan districts
3
Building ApiCare
5 yrs
KPMG audit findings, 3 cycles
0
RAMP training sites, 2026–27
5
Selected work

What I've built.

ApiCare is the honey supply chain. FarmLedger is the record that could make its farmers bankable. Alongside both, I've done digital work for hotels and homestays.

Wild honeycomb resting on moss in Sikkim
ApiCare logo: Taste the Essence of the Himalayas
01 / 03
Founder · 2021 →

ApiCare

A honey business in Sikkim that buys from smallholder beekeepers. I founded it in 2021 and built the systems it runs on, from production and supply chain to training and sales. In 2025 the Government of India (Dept. of Commerce & Industries, Sikkim) chose it as a training partner under RAMP, a World Bank-financed MSME programme. I am now leading the second round of that training, at five locations. No findings in any KPMG review cycle so far.

  • RAMP training partner
  • 125+ trained under RAMP
  • 150+ farmer network
apicare.co.in @apicare
FarmLedger mark
In build · 2026

FarmLedger

My MBA thesis project: a record-keeping platform for very small farms. It logs each sale a farmer makes to customers, businesses and FPOs, and AI turns that history into a credit profile a bank could lend against.

  • 150+ farmers
  • MBA thesis project
  • Live prototype
Live prototype
Aerial view of Green Hamlet, Gangtok
Pool at Kunjham Retreat, Gangtok
01 / 04
Consulting · 2023 →

Tourism & Hospitality

Websites, booking systems and social media for homestays and retreats in Sikkim and Darjeeling. In 2026, social media for Hotel Poreč in Croatia.

  • 5 projects
  • Web design
  • Social media
See the projects

Most of it I learned
in the field.

Under RAMP, ApiCare worked with government officials, went through KPMG audit cycles and trained smallholder farmers. Before that, I set up websites, booking systems and reporting for small hotels that had none.

I want to do this kind of digital transformation work, on systems, reporting and data, inside a larger organisation.

More about me
Case study

How the work actually went.

Each case covers the problem, what I tried, what went wrong and what I'd tell someone doing the same work.

View all case studies
01
ApiCare Organic Farms and Honey Production Pvt. Ltd. · 2021 - present

Case 1: Building ApiCare, and why a bigger harvest paid farmers less

Beekeeping, supply chains and the limits of training in the Eastern Himalaya. Why a farmer who produces more earns less per kilogram, and what we did about it.

Read the case study
About

Let's talk.

I founded ApiCare in 2021 and still run its systems and its government training work. I'm in the last semester of an Erasmus Mundus MBA (Croatia, Lithuania, Belgium) and graduate in December 2026. I can start an internship now, or a full-time role from March 2027.

hello@nikhilpradhan.in
Full bio CV (PDF) LinkedIn