Job at KAYONZA DISTRICT:Cash Crops Officer(Deadline:18 January 2018)
Job Description
Elaborate a local strategy on cash crops, monitor its implementation at Sector level and produce consolidated reports thereof;
Organize trainings and campaigns meant to raise local population awareness on the use and importance of modern techniques of cash crops production and disease control at Sector level;
Supervise the identification and mapping of cash crop diseases prevailing within the District and advise on preventive and reactive measures;
Supervise, in close collaboration with the agriculture officer, the distribution and monitor the use of fertilizers across Sectors, and organize experimentation of selected seeds;
Maintain, in close collaboration with any other concerned staff, an updated database of cash crops within the District, analyse their impact on local economic development and advise accordingly about scale
– up measures.
Job Profile
Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture, Cash Crops Production, Rural Development, or in Agri
– business, agro
– economics
Key Technical Skills & Knowledge required:
– Extensive Knowledge in Agriculture mainly Cash Crops
– Organizational Skills;
– Communication Skills;
– High analytical Skills;
– Complex Problem Solving;
– Time management Skills;
– Team working Skills;
– Fluency in Kinyarwanda, English and/ or French; knowledge of all is an advantage
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