CITRUS FARM MANAGER

• Bachelor’s degree agronomy or horticulture
• A minimum of five years’ work experience within the citrus sector as agronomist, farm manager, or extensionist
• Practical experience with conventional and organic citrus production systems
• Able to develop and implement successful extension systems
• Experience in setting up, monitoring, analyzing and reporting upon applied trials
• A pioneer who enjoys being part of a young, dynamic, and fast-growing company in one of the most rapidly developing countries in the world
• Result-driven and passionate for excellence

• Setup a citrus demo and R&D farm, one for organic citrus and one for conventional citrus, which can be used to demonstrate and train our smallholder contract farmers
• Develop best farming practices which will increase the productivity and profitability of local citrus orchards, compliant with international standards and quality specifications.
• Create training programs for every aspect of conventional and organic citrus farming for both farmers and our agronomists
• Train our extension team to successfully introduce improved farming practices to our contract farmers
• Develop monitoring and feedback systems to track the performance of farmers and the extension team, and use these (quantitative) data to benchmark farmers and our staff to improve their performance
• Develop a (demo) citrus nursery which will provide our contract farmers with healthy fruit tree seedlings, which are productive and free of diseases.

Farm Manager SA