Job Title: Extension Officer (Fresher Jobs)
Organisation: Nile Breweries Limited
Duty Station: Jinja, Uganda
About the Company:
Nile Breweries Limited is a leading beverage company in Uganda and a subsidiary of SABMiller, the second largest brewing group in the world. We aim to provide for a variety of career paths and patterns of working, a good work-life balance and comprehensive employee benefits.
Job Summary: The key purpose of this role is to ensure constant barley and sorghum production to meet the mandate of the business.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- 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, Skills and Experience:
- 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
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience working in an agronomy /agronomist related environment
- Fluency in English
- Drivers license
Key Attributes and Competencies:
- Supervisory Skills
- Negotiation Skills
- Interpersonal Skills
- Decision Making and Advisory Skills
- Team player
How to Apply:
All interested candidates who meet the above specifications should apply at the link below.
Deadline: 5th March 2025
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