Stephen Murimi

I am Agricultural and Environmental Management and Sustainability Specialist with over 6 years in agricultural production and operational management, on-farm soil nutrient budgeting and fertility management, environmental auditing and assessment in compiling and implementing environmental management plan and research. This is enriched with skills and experiences in developing regenerative, conventional and agro-ecological farming of cereals, legumes, fruits and vegetables both private and public sectors. I have profound skills in environmental sustainability through circular economy and compost production for use in organic agriculture, utilization of climate smart agro-ecological models that supports land regeneration practices; agroforestry, cover cropping, waste recycling, mulching and carbon cycle management.

I utilize agriculture smart technologies and precision agriculture models tailored to location specifics through data analysis and modelling by use of ArcGIS and QGIS (using; IDW, Kriging and Spline) for Spatial and Geo-statistical soil data analysis. I have skills in precision agriculture using GPS, drone and GIS, project and farm management that includes farm machinery, resource acquisition and allocation, operations planning, marketing of agricultural inputs and output products, training and capacity building of human capital. I have enough skills in supervisory and peoples' management in project and programs with focus to expected high value output through good leadership skills, staff motivation and appraisals, results oriented and use of appropriate technologies and methods.

Compost Supervisor - Golden Exotics Limited - Accra, Ghana

(2014-02 - 2021-09)

• Compost production.
• Procurement of compost inputs.
• Training and management of compost works and production process.
• Compost and soil sampling, analysis, interpretation before and after compost application and mapping in in ArcGIS/QGIS.
• Organic nutrient budgeting and soil fertility management on banana plantation.
• Supervision of compost packaging, distribution and land application.
• Management of farm machinery and equipment; compost turner, tractors, backhoe, compost bagging machine, compost spreader and skid steers.
• Research new organic fertilizer opportunities.
• Evaluate, control and supervise compost dosage on banana plants.
• Planting and maintenance of cover crops.
• Management and incorporation of manures and compost during land preparation and planting.
• Production of organic certified compost by EPA, TESANO and Fair Trade.
• Production of more than 10,000 tonnes of organic compost per year enough to support more than 240 ha of banana plantation.
• Production of organic compost with consistent of N-P-K (2:1:4) ratio.

Training Manager - Olam Ghana Limited - Tumu, Ghana

(2011-09 - 2012-10)

• Training of cotton production assistants on good agricultural practices.
• Preparation of radio broadcast information aired to cotton farmers.
• Mapping land farm and producing maps on GIS software.
• Farms audit.
• Capacity building and training of farmer groups.
• Marketing of seed cotton.
• Training of 60 Cotton Production Assistants (CPA's) on good farming practices.
• Facilitated field marketing of seed cotton.
• Soil sampling, analysis, interpretation and mapping analysis using IDW, Kriging and Spline in ArcGIS/QGIS.
• On-farm nutrient budgeting and soil fertilitymanagement.
• ArcGIS/QGIS Mapping and analysis using various ArcGIS/QGIS tools and production of GIS reports and maps for 5000ha out-grower farms.
• Capacity building and training of 20,000 farmers and 1000 Farmer Based Organizations (FBOs).
• Prepared of five good standard operating procedures (SOP's for cotton farming).

FBOs Development Officer - Ministry of Food and Agriculture - Wa, Ghana

(2009-09 - 2011-09)

• Management of Women Extension Volunteers program.
• Recruitment, training, placement and support of women extension volunteers in their respective communities.
• Providing agricultural extension servicesto farmers.
• Capacity building through training's, technicalsupport to farmers and MOFA staffs.
• Promoting community saving initiatives.
• Developed small ruminants and non-ruminants production and marketing.
• Monitoring and evaluation of program.
• Organized 300 FBOs with 6000 farmers to engage into Block farming of Maize, Rice, groundnut and soya beans production and marketing recovery of harvested maize.
• Assisted six women groups in growing herbs, spices, vegetables, and value addition by processing and packaging for sale.
• Assisted three FBOs with 60 farmers in rearing animals; goats, poultry and rabbits.
• Recruited, trained and managed 60 Women Extension Volunteers who supported 135 Agricultural Extension Agents in delivering agricultural information to 300 Farmer Based Organizations comprising of 6000 farmers.
• Facilitated and created partnership and collaboration with Literacy bridge International for introduction of Talking Book Device (Electronic Device with more than 55-hour talk time) for effective delivery of agricultural information.

Project Facilitator - Grailland - Jos, Nigeria

(2007-02 - 2009-02)

• Organic production of three- acres under production of coffee, roses and chrysanthemum flowers.
• Farm organization and management.
• Proposal writing for future funding as part of fund raising and resource acquisition.
• Preparations, editing and production of Standard operating Procedures (SOP's) for good floricultural practice.
• Funding proposal was successful and was enough to install one greenhouse with all drip irrigation structures for half an acre.
• Trained five Grail land employees on flower production and post-harvest processing for sale.
• Managed the daily operations of the organization and successfully boosted cut flowers production by 50% within first ten months.
• Developed one booklet of Standard operating Procedures (SOP's) for good floricultural practice.

MSc. - Environmental Sustainability and Management - Wisconsin International University College (2016-12)

BSc. - Horticulture - EGERTON University (2002-10)