Summary
Date Posted: Monday, April 22 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The purpose of the Agronomist is to advise all the Coffee and Cocoa farmers to ensure maximum productivity and help protect the environment with good agricultural practices.

Tasks & Responsibilities
• Advising farmers on best agriculture practices to improve their crop yields.
• Provide technical assistance to farmers in Coffee and Cocoa production and quality aspects
• Ensuring the Coffee and Cocoa farmers meet with the required quality level.
• Keeping up to date with product developments and legislation
• Making nutrition plans to schedule fertiliser application based on soil testing as permitted by the applied methodologies
• Recording information on plant growth and environmental conditions
• Collaborate with other partners to improve access to support farmers
• Establish corrective measures with project team for any quality issues
• Provide Material and feedback to planting monitors for communication purposes
• Provide Information on Coffee and Cocoa farmer’s issues
• Manage Education and Demonstration Farms for endorse Good Agriculture Practices

Requirements
• Minimum Bachelor of Agriculture
• Strong knowledge of agricultural/crop production practices
• More than 5 years’ experience in Coffee and Cocoa agricultural practices in Uganda
• Fluent in English, a minimum of 1 local language (of the project location area)
• Having good analytical, negotiation, communication, and presentation skills
• Willing to travel to field locations in-country
• strong cultural understanding of the project region
• must be able to operate inside an international organisational culture



Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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