Responsibilities and Accountabilities: Knowledge Transfer: - Gain a comprehensive understanding of Agribusiness operations and objectives, including supplier contracts and the impact of raw quality. - Utilize various communication and demonstration methods to advise and train the regional supplier group. - Assist growers in identifying opportunities to improve crop yield and delivered quality by developing an enhanced Package of Practices based on historical data. - Support seed grower compliance with sustainability reporting through AgPortal, GMS, and other means, including pesticide records, fertilization records, and water usage. Maintain company's GAP records. Trials: - Conduct variety evaluation trials for new variety establishment, address emerging seed issues and find effective solutions. - Engage with the company's growers and the regional agriculture community to conduct research. Identifying and cross-checking disease and pest issues with relevant literature and institutes. - Provide guidance on achieving optimal plant health and productivity through best practices related to crop nutrients, crop protectants, and storage management techniques. - Assist in developing regionalized variety management profiles for testing on a commercial scale. - Conduct sustainability and survey audits and promote practices to enhance sustainability, such as IPM adoption. - Support and promote Decision Support Systems for disease management in the absence of alternatives, including maintaining weather monitoring where public systems are unavailable. Networking: - Attend and actively participate in local and national agricultural production education meetings to stay informed about current agricultural practices. - Engage in research and collaboration with public research institutions and private companies to explore and develop new technologies. Collaboration: - Gather knowledge from various sources, including institutions, senior management, the company Ag Net, SAU, and practical insights from farmers, to train the contract farming team effectively. - Promptly seek input from the contract farming team to understand challenges and design yield improvement trials for practical solutions. - Address potato storage-related issues, comply with local regulations, and conduct chemical trials or recommend best management practices to the supply team. - Identify and diagnose storage-related diseases, and conduct storage experiments using analytical experimental design, and propose appropriate solutions. - Maintain a strong relationship with the operation team involved in processing potatoes to understand seed-related concerns. - Provide efficient support to the supply chain team and contract farming team. Team: - Skillfully train and engage the team to empower them to manage their responsibilities independently. Requirements: Academic: - Must have a Master/Ph.D. degree in Agriculture/Horticulture with 8-10 years of experience in variety trial and or breeding and or crop production, preferably in potato crops. - Nice to have: A Master/Ph.D. degree in Agriculture/Horticulture with 5-7 years of experience in Potato crop production. Related Work Experience (Internal to the organization or external): - Should have previous experience in developing POP (package of practices) for crops and should have a thorough knowledge of conducting agronomy trials.

Gujarat

Manager - Research & Development - Agronomy 

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