Green House Crops Consultant - AAA Growers - Kenya and Saudi Arabia Farms
(2025-04)
Providing crop agronomical guidance to greenhouse crops like Tomato, Cherry tomato, Capsicum, Cucumbers, Melons, Butternuts, Straw berries & herbs.
- Managing more than 100 Ha polyhouse/ Glass houses for Tomato (Beef, Plum & Cherry), Capsicum, Sweet melons Cucumber & leafy veges.
- Farming Sweet corns, butternut, Fine beans, Bird eye chilies in open field condition in 500 acres.
- Annual and Seasonal crop planning, Crop budgeting, reporting regular crop performance and yield forecast reports.
- Crop budgeting & managing the crop production within the crop budget.
- Selection of best suitable veg crop varieties for the location and also continues new varieties trials for highest yield performance.
- Providing technical agronomical guidance (Land preparation, mulching, weeding, Irrigation, Fertigation, pest & disease control, pruning operations, Harvesting etc)
- As a part ISM (Integrated Soil Management) using bulky Organic manures, vermicompost, Fulvic & humic acid application)
- Controlling pest & disease with IPM and with strict consideration of Agri chemicals PHI during spraying & drenching operations.
- Strictly ensured that the farm operations & packing activities are in accordance with the ISO and HACCP compliances to ensure quality & food safety.
- Maintaining veg produce quality & safety standards (Freshness and appearance, pesticides residua levels (MRL), low levels of contaminants and veg produce traceability).
- Maintaining Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) in post- harvest handling, washing, sorting, packing in hygienic conditions.
- Harvesting chemicals free veg produce for local and export market. Harvesting the veges strictly based on market or client specifications.
- Regular maintenance of farm machinery.
- Managed good agricultural practices (GAP) for better crop yield and also maintaining global gap standards in farm location.
- Providing regular training to technical field staff on GAP.
- Maintaining SOP for all farm operations.
- Providing regular field staff training and strictly all safety standards are maintained as per govt labor laws.
- Maintaing fertilizers and Agri chemicals usage records time to time.
- Handling packing as per the export global standards.
Agri Production Head - Millennium Farms - Jordan & Saudi Arabia
(2022-01 - 2025-03)
Guided farm operations procedures.
- Planned for 4000 Greenhouse installation and operation.
- Presently 2000 polyhouses are under colored sweet pepper farming and started harvesting. Each polyhouse size is 10m x 50m (500SQ, M)
- Grown color sweet peppers, plum tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, Cucumbers, Lettuce Bionda, Lollo Rosso, Kale, Rosemary, Celery, Basil, Blue berries etc in greenhouses by using liquid fertilizers fertigation.
- Achieved capsicum @ 5kg/plant in polyhouse and Cherry tomato @ 4kg/plant.
- Planned the vegetable production on yearly based on the market demand.
- Guided hi tech farming for blue berry crop in Polyhouses.
- Planned crop annual plan & seasonal crop plans.
- Crop Budgeting.
- Provided all the technical operations & agronomic aspects like nursery development, planting, spacing, weeding, irrigation, fertilizer application, chemical spraying, pest and diseases management there by improved the field crop yields resulting in higher returns.
- Developed and managed Medjool Dates (Khajoor) farm with latest technology.
- Managed good agricultural practices (GAP) for better crop yield and also maintaining global gap standards in farm location.
- Managed timely sweet pepper planting, harvesting, packing and exported to Israeli country.
- Handled and maintenances of all farm machinery
- Handled greenhouse team, pack house team and sales team on daily basis.
- Maintained and reported the farm operation reports on day-to-day basis.
- Regular training provided to the farm supervisors and workers on farm operations.
Chief Agronomist - Trovec General Trading LLC - Dubai
(2019-10 - 2021-11)
Provided technical guidance for growing Tomato, Cherry tomato, Cucumbers, Capsicum in Hydroponics Green houses and Polyhouses (20 Greenhouses & 20 acres open field).
- In open field, crops like tomato, Brinjal, Okra, Green Zucchini, Yellow Zucchini and Hybrid green and yellow summer Squash.
- Developed and managed Medjool Dates farm (Khajoor) with latest technology.
- Crop budgeting.
- Designed and operated Nursery polyhouse for growing tomato seedlings in cocopeat.
- Designed and operated hydroponic polyhouses along with foggers and irrigation system.
- Identification of suitable tomato hybrids suitable for polyhouse and open field.
- Designed fertigation recipe with water soluble fertilizers for different crop stages for different crops.
- Guided hi tech farming for blue berry crop in Polyhouses.
- Developed fertigation programme for the blue berry crop, based on the growth stages.
- Grown F1 hybrid indeterminate tomatoes in 1000sq.mt size (10m x 100m) Controlled green houses with cool pads. Crop duration 8 months. Growing media used was cocopeat and grown in foam buckets and grown hydroponically. Achieved 17kg/plant
- In Natural ventilated polyhouses (1000sq.mt), Indeterminate hybrid tomatoes grown only in winter season and achieved average 10kgs/plant.
- Achieved capsicum avg yield of 5 kg / plant under polycarbonate controlled green houses.
- Achieved cherry tomato avg yield of 4 kg/plant
- Provided better nutrition recipe for different vegetable and herbs resulting in higher yields in green houses.
- Technically planned the crop planning on yearly basis thereby got good returns throughout the year.
- Guided with all the technical & good agricultural practices (GAP) like sowing, spacing, weeding, irrigation, fertigation, pest and diseases management in vegetables and horticulture crops.
- Vegetables production and marketing plan done based on requirement in supermarkets and local markets demand.
Farm Manager - Astarc Agriculture Limited - Uganda
(2016-09 - 2019-08)
Out of total 5000Ha, initially surveyed 4000Ha of forest land for growing field crops like Soyabean and Maize.
- Maize farming done in 3500Ha (Red Soils) under rainfed conditions. Achieved 4.5 to 5 tons /Ha under rainfed condition.
- Surveyed and collected the soil samples, based on soil analysis, soil fertility maps are prepared with the help of registered surveyors and agriculture departments.
- Timely land clearing was done based on the soil fertility map report.
- Selected best maize hybrids and varieties
- Done trials on different spacings on different Maize hybrids.
- Under rainfed conditions achieved maize grain yield 5.0 to 6.0 tons/Ha, the reason for less yield was due to irregularity of rainfall and also plants exposed to drought conditions during crop growth season.
- Proper scouting done on daily basis to protect the crop from pest and diseases.
- Developed and managed the farm with the latest mechanization for all the agricultural operations.
- Guided contract farming growers with all technical farming advices resulting in getting higher yields.
- Prepared Crop budgeting.
- Selected high yielding varieties depending on soil type, crop resistance, spacing and yield.
- Managed all the technical operations & agronomic aspects like deep ploughing, sowing, spacing, weeding, irrigation, fertilizer application, chemical spraying, pest and diseases management there by improved the field crop yields resulting in higher returns.
- Implemented good agricultural practices (GAP) for better crop yield.
- Better team management with proper coordination with Farm field supervisors at the project site.
- Timely managed harvesting, packing and stored in godowns.
- Maintained farm records up to date and regularly supervised stocks movement in the warehouse.
- Maintained better relation with the local community, Agriculture department & Agriculture Research Station.
- Managed and maintained farm machinery equipment's.
Chief Agronomist - Danma Corporation Ltd - Lusaka, Zambia
(2013-02 - 2016-07)
Out of 200 acres, initially developed 100 acres for vegetable production.
- Provided latest growing technology for crops like Strawberries, Capsicum, Tomato, Cherry tomatoes, Cucumbers, Carrots, Celery, Kale, basil, Rosemary, Lettuce, Spinach, Cabbage and herbs under greenhouse Hydroponics
