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The Key Purpose of this role is to ensure constant barley and sorghum production to meet the mandate of the business.

Responsibilities or duties

• Ensure timely mobilization, recruitment, and registration of farmers for barley and sorghum growing
• Ensure that timely land preparation, planting, weeding, harvesting is carried out as per recommended practice
• Ensure soil, moisture conservation and crop rotation practices are observed and carried out by farmers
• Ensure that only pure seed supplied by NBL is planted by farmers and at the correct seed rate and NOT any other
• Identify the acreage and corresponding quantities of inputs that will suffice your area of operation
• Ensure that herbicide, fungicide, and insecticides are applied at the correct time, correct rate
• Monitor the crop throughout the entire growth period
• In case of any abnormality e.g., disease occurrence, insect infestation then advises farmers on proper and timely corrective measures to be done
• Promote adaption of Machinery i.e., threshers and planters use among barley/sorghum farmers
• Dissemination of new farming technologies to farmers
• Assist in the recovery of the costs of inputs advanced to farmers
• Coach farmers to manage farming as a business
• Keep a database tracking seed distribution, seed uptake, actual planted acreage and actual crop yield
• Timely monthly reporting of Sustainability goal activities

Qualifications or requirements (e.g., education, skills)

• Supervisory Skills
• Negotiation Skills
• Interpersonal Skills
• Decision Making and Advisory Skills
• Team player

Experience needed

Minimum of 2 years’ experience working in an agronomy/agronomist related environment

• Ensure timely mobilization, recruitment, and registration of farmers for barley and sorghum growing
• Ensure that timely land preparation, planting, weeding, harvesting is carried out as per recommended practice
• Ensure soil, moisture conservation and crop rotation practices are observed and carried out by farmers
• Ensure that only pure seed supplied by NBL is planted by farmers and at the correct seed rate and NOT any other
• Identify the acreage and corresponding quantities of inputs that will suffice your area of operation
• Ensure that herbicide, fungicide, and insecticides are applied at the correct time, correct rate
• Monitor the crop throughout the entire growth period
• In case of any abnormality e.g., disease occurrence, insect infestation then advises farmers on proper and timely corrective measures to be done
• Promote adaption of Machinery i.e., threshers and planters use among barley/sorghum farmers
• Dissemination of new farming technologies to farmers
• Assist in the recovery of the costs of inputs advanced to farmers
• Coach farmers to manage farming as a business
• Keep a database tracking seed distribution, seed uptake, actual planted acreage and actual crop yield
• Timely monthly reporting of Sustainability goal activities

• Supervisory Skills
• Negotiation Skills
• Interpersonal Skills
• Decision Making and Advisory Skills
• Team player

• Bachelor of Science Hons in Agronomy or related field with field crops experience
• Experience in managing agronomic operations
• Experience in working with commercial and small holder farmers
• Fluency in English
• Drivers license