Farm Manager

Responsibilities:

• Direct and coordinate worker activities, such as planting, irrigation, chemical application, harvesting, grading, and restoration.
• Determine how to raise crops by evaluating factors such as disease, soil conditions, and the availability of federal programs
• Coordinate growing activities with those of engineering, equipment maintenance, and other related departments.
• Analyze market conditions to determine acreage allocations.
• Record information, such as production, farm management practices, and parent stock, and prepares financial and operational reports.
• Determine procedural changes in drying, grading, storage, and transportation for greater efficiency and accuracy.
• Analyze soil to determine type and quantity of fertilizer required for maximum production.
• Inspect equipment to ensure proper functioning and ensures proper maintenance.
• Inspect fields to determine maturity dates of crops or to estimate potential crop damage from weather.
• Plan and direct development and production of hybrid plant varieties with high yield or disease and insect resistant characteristics.
• Adapt their duties to the seasons, weather conditions, or a crop’s growing cycle
• Purchase machinery, equipment, and supplies, such as tools, seed, fertilizer, and chemicals.
• Comply to farms standards and policies for e.g. health, safety, product quality, property and asset management and environment.
• Evaluate financial statements and makes budget proposals.

Requirements:

• Minimum academic qualification of a Bachelor's Degree in Agriculture or related field such as agricultural engineering, crop management, farm business management, horticulture, land/estate management.
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience in Farming-related field
• A knowledge of food production and an awareness of customer demand, food standards and sustainability
• Sound understanding of cassava production, processing and  the entire cassava value chain
• Genuine commitment to farming
• Good technical knowledge
• A good understanding of modern farming methods
• An understanding of the ways in which farming impacts the environment.
• Organizational and time-management skills
• The ability to work under pressure
• Supervisory skills and management ability
• Numerical aptitude
• Willingness to be outside in all weathers and patience to undertake all sorts of practical, sometimes repetitive jobs
• Self-motivation, with the ability to motivate others
• Larger-scale business awareness
• Negotiation skills.

Location: Owerri

Remuneration: NGN 250,000 - 300,000 with accommodation.