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Louis Dreyfus Company
Junior Agronomist
Kampala
• Uganda
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Description
Education
- The applicant should hold a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, specialization in soil, plant or crop science or agronomy
Experience
- Strong working knowledge in Coffee Agronomy with rich experience of working in field with the farmers.
- At least 3 years of relevant working experience in agronomy, coffee research, and crop science
- Working knowledge related to coffee crop and Uganda are added advantage.
- Very good knowledge of MS Office (advanced Excel skills)
- Strong presentation and communication skills in English and local Uganda local dialects
- Willingness to travel upcountry for crop tours and farmer engagements
Responsibilities
- Implementation and supervision of agreed research methodology for crop estimation analytically
- Contribution to the development of research methodology and strategy. Continuous review of the methodology being applied in view of observations made during crop tours.
- Make projections of potential crop yield per season and share the same with management.
- Plan, organize and execute regular crop tours in order to estimate the production using
- High quality farmer interviews and
- visual yield estimation
- High quality farmer interviews and
- Estimate coffee areas by collecting data from official sources regularly
- Confirmation of area estimates through visual estimation of area changes
- Farmer interviews
- Gathering information from third parties like research institutes, nurseries, state farms etc.
- Highlight the risks to the crop estimate by working out various scenarios. Assessment of the impact of various scenarios on yields and associated probabilities such as weather, pests, diseases and changing costs or supply of inputs or labor etc.
- Close monitoring of weather developments and long term forecasts to update production estimates.
- Conducting detailed cost of production studies
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