EXTENSION CLERK at SIOMO TEA FACTORY (2025-07 – Present)
- Ensuring the quality of green leaf delivered to the factory and educating farmers on quality standards
- Communicate company policies, farming best practices, and relevant information to farmers
- Data entry related to fertilizer requests, leaf collection, and other relevant information, contributing to the factory's overall data management system
- Distribution and monitoring of farm inputs like fertilizers and other resources
- Maintaining records of farmer information, leaf deliveries, and other relevant data, which is crucial for factory operations and farmer payments
- Point of contact for farmers to raise concerns, suggestions, and feedback, relaying this information to the factory Management
- Providing agricultural extension services to farmers, including training on tea husbandry, proper plucking techniques, and fertilizer applications
- Assist in preparation of certification standards which include Rainforest alliance certification (RA), Food safety certification (FSSC), Health and safety standards certification
GREEN LEAF COLLECTION CLERK at SIOMO TEA FACTORY (EPZ) (2023-06 – 2025-07)
- Inspecting green leaf quality
- Ensure weigh scales and other machines are well maintained
- Registering new farmers
- Educating farmers on sustainable agricultural practices
- Handling Greenleaf transport logistics
- Handling farmer's issues at field and reporting accordingly
INTERN at KENYA PLANT HEALTH INSPECTORATE SERVICE (KEPHIS) (2021-05 – 2022-05)
- Assisting farm manager in allocation and supervision of workers
- Maintaining farm records
- Payroll generation for casuals
- Nursery and orchard management
- Field scouting
- Inspection
- Machine inspection
- Samples collection and dispatch
- Intake inspection to ascertain quality
- Sealing and labeling
- Record maintenance
- Field inspections
- Post control trials
- Assessing National Proficiency Trials (NPT)
- Phytosanitary services
- Post certification surveys-checking on quality of seeds in market, seed sellers license status
RESEARCH ASSISTANT at AGROMODULARS TRIAL AND CONSULTANCY'S LIMITED (2020-01 – 2021-05)
- Trial protocol documentation
- Trial set up
- Supervision of chemical application to ensure trial regulations are observed
- Data collection
- Data entry and analysis
- Report preparation
- In-house trials
FIELD ATTACHMENT at EMBU COUNTY GOVERNMENT, DEPARTMENT AGRICULTURE LIVESTOCK AND COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT (2018-05 – 2018-07)
- Training of farmers on proper agricultural record keeping
- Assessment of agricultural marketing sector in an attempt to improve agricultural productivity
- Preparation of farm enterprise business plans
- Formation of farmers groups
- Weekly and monthly report writing
