Job Description

• Support implementation of Company agricultural production strategy and portfolio of projects in accordance with policies, guidelines and agreements
• Assist in developing policies and procedures, monitoring and control of production functions and processes
• Analyze and refine knowledge on competitive, commercial and sustainable production schemes
• Catalogue constraints and needs, establish a database of institutions, major actors, technologies and processes required to catalyze expansion of nucleus, RVBC and VPO production units
• Assess distribution and severity of new/emerging biotic and abiotic stresses, develop management options and promote application of IPM systems

• Introduce, develop, integrate and promote innovative technologies and processes that increase competitiveness in response to priority market opportunities and chains

• Increase productivity through introduction, development and deployment of genotypes/varieties with high yields and pest and disease resistance that meet industry requirements for specific product markets
• Enhance access to planting material offering high productivity gains and valued quality traits for select chains through planting material certification system, multiplication, deployment and distribution schemes
• Develop holistic early warning systems/strategies to mitigate constraints to production
• Develop and integrate commercially proven crop, soil and pest management practices and technologies that increase water and nutrient use efficiency to enhance competitiveness of production systems

• Introduce and promote appropriate equipment and services in response to priority opportunities
• Build human resources to strengthen institutional capacity for competitive, commercial production with required quality and functional characteristics
• Support communities/households to enhance household food and income security systems

• Mainstream resource limited farmers into competitive production schemes through capacity building and improved organizational arrangements
• Identify and organize a production chain structure to competitively produce and ensure availability of raw materials from nucleus, RBC and PO production units
• Assess demand, availability, distribution, access and affordability of agrochemicals, mechanization and water management services, develop user friendly, low risk packages and disseminate extension messages to improve productivity
• Develop mechanisms to strengthen RVBCs to serve as community input supply dealers/agents
• Promote adoption of improved, competitively productive and profitable production technologies by RVBCs/VPOs to Increase incomes and improve livelihoods in rural areas

• Contribute to market information acquisition and dissemination systems for increased commercialization
• Develop knowledge and update information on target ecologies, production systems and diversity of genetic resources
• Develop, test and implement effective, commercially viable and environmentally safe plant protection technologies which reduce losses and enhance productivity
• Develop, produce, and disseminate training and extension support materials with attention on safe use of inputs (fertilizers, CPPs)

Required Skills or Experience

• A minimum of BSc Agriculture
• Should have a minimum of 3 years experience in field and Green house Agriculture
• Should have the ability to manage a team of 12 casuals