Feb 7, Agricultural Employers’ Association Crop Protection and Fertigation Manager Jobs in Kenya

The successful candidate will be responsible for managing all the activities from crop monitoring including scouting and water use through planning and coordinating spray programs, irrigation and feeding programs to ensure the crops are kept pest and disease free and growing to their maximum potential. The role will report to the Production Manager.

Key Responsibilities

Preparing Crops Scouting Programs and setting these up throughout the crops.

Training up junior crop scouts and supervisors so they can be completely conversant with pest and disease identification and how to record these objectively and accurately and in a manner that they can be used to monitor pest and disease levels uniformly.

Physically carrying out scouting and reporting on these.

Preparing spray programs using the muddy boots soft ware and crop walker to address the pest and disease problems detected in the field and working with the spray manager to ensure these are applied correctly.

Monitoring the efficacy of the sprays and compiling reports to allow the spray programs to improve over time.

Double check and assist in training the sprayers on safe use of pesticides and also spray techniques to improve efficacy and cover the global GAP standards.

Prepare fertilizer plans in advance using the muddy boots software and crop walker in accordance with the SOP for each crop.

To operate the fertigation unit (Netafilm Fertikit NMC-Junior). So that the correct EC and PH of fertilizer and amounts of fertiliser are reaching each green house.

To assist the management in auditing chemical stores and fertiliser stores.

To prepare all the relevant reports requested by the MD and section managers to enable them to make good management decisions.

Desired Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Certificate / Diploma in General Agriculture

Computer literate

Independent, target-oriented, dependable, flexible, reliable, enthusiastic

Leadership experience

Opportunity thinker and problem solver

Good communicator

Strategic thinking

Willingness to engage in further training

Very good computer skills

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Agricultural Employers’ Association Crop Protection and Fertigation Manager Jobs in Kenya

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