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• Carries out fertilizer calibration, harvesting and other agronomy trials – Designs, develops protocols and lays out new trials to meet agreed objectives.• Evaluates new innovations/technologies in agricultural operations – planting, harvesting and general husbandry in line with company productivity improvements.• Prepare annual fertilizer guides for use by estates and oversee/supervise to ensure that fertilizer is applied as recommended for economical/optimum… Show more • Carries out fertilizer calibration, harvesting and other agronomy trials – Designs, develops protocols and lays out new trials to meet agreed objectives.• Evaluates new innovations/technologies in agricultural operations – planting, harvesting and general husbandry in line with company productivity improvements.• Prepare annual fertilizer guides for use by estates and oversee/supervise to ensure that fertilizer is applied as recommended for economical/optimum production• Coordinates the monitoring of crop nutritional status in all production fields, develop and maintain database, and advises on remedial measures. • Allocates and supervises all field research assistants’ activities and ensures that data collection, compilation and analysis of data from field experiments is done accurately and meets research standards. • Carries out training of field research assistants and estate management• Conducts field days to on new technologies/GAP• Collates and presents data for the Research and Development Agronomy annual budget preparation and monitor expenditure. • Provides technical assistance/advisory services on field challenges to the estate management and also trouble shooting • Coordinates Sustainability certification for the plantation and training on sustainability/certification issues.• Coordinates documentation relevant to agricultural/environmental certification schemes subscribed to by Unilever Tea Kenya.• Update the Good Agricultural Practices manual and roll out new Agricultural technologies. Show less

• Selling and distributing Agro-chemical inputs to farmers and Agro-vets• Organizing and conducting on farm and field demonstrations to farmers• Training farmers on the use of agro-chemicals in their farms