Chelangat Gladys
Agricultural Officer with Extension Services Expertise
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About
A dependable, self–driven and versatile agricultural officer with good knowledge and hands-on experience and skills in agricultural extension services. Over 4 years of working with smallholder farmers in different parts of Kenya including Eastern and Rift valley regions in areas of agricultural services, capacity building, technology adoption, marketing agricultural products, mobilization and value addition. Can communicate, collaborate and possess the ability to effectively lead a team and manage operations.
Successfully blended into a multicultural environment with expertise in delivering and managing agricultural training and confident in the ability to deliver and improve farming technologies and agricultural output.
Experience
Agricultural extension officer - USAID- Feed the Future Market System and Partnership with Best Tropical Fruits
(2024-05 - 2025-02)
Duties and responsibilities
- Recruiting and training farmers on rearing of Black Soldier Fly farming
- Promote the uptake of Black Soldier Fly rearing amongst smallholder farmers through farmer mobilization
- Empowering women to take up roles and responsibilities in diverse agriculture
- Provide demonstration plot to the small scale farmers
- Preparing weekly report on field activities
- Recruited over 200 smallholder farmers
- Training recruited smallholder farmers on rearing and management practices on BSF
- Set up demonstration plots for all recruited farmers
Production supervisor (food processing industry) - Best tropical fruits limited
(2023-12 - 2024-05)
Duties and Responsibilities
- Developing processing flow charts in support of the food safety leader
- Documentation of production outputs and weekly targets for the department
- Setting daily targets for every casual
- Supply contracts for all raw fruits suppliers and ensuring that quality fruits are supplied as per the company standards
- Assisted in product quality inspections and quality checks of products policies and procedures for the company's food product lines
- Overseeing quality control of incoming and final product
Extension officer - Best tropical fruits limited
(2022-01 - 2023-11)
Duties and Responsibilities
- Training and mobilizing farmers
- Provide Good agricultural practices (GAP)
- Developing training manuals for field officers, farmers and other stakeholders
- Developing supply contracts for farmers
- Developing pest and disease management guides for farmers and field team
- Provide training manuals to farmer group on agricultural activities guidelines which include management of mango trees, pest control practices
Head of project management - Africa Agri-food development program
(2021-04 - 2022-01)
Promoting insect protein farming. Duties and Responsibilities
- Monitoring and evaluation of rearing technology
- Training farmers about the project and do follow up
- Provide technical support to the farmers on the project
- Training groups of farmers on agricultural diversification to food loose
- Recruited over 50 smallholder farmers
- Set up demonstration farms for the farmers
Waste manager - Best tropical fruits limited
(2020-01 - 2021-03)
Duties and Responsibilities
- Ensure proper waste disposal
- Proper utilization of waste
- Processing of fruits are processed in time and well packaged
High school teacher - St John secondary school
(2018-01 - 2019-09)
Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide quality training skills and standards to the learners
- Being a role model to the learners and setting achievable targets
- Timely coverage of the syllabus
- Provide guidance and counseling to the learners
Extension officer - Nandi tea estate
(2017-01 - 2017-12)
Duties and Responsibilities
- Ensure plucking and bush are well managed
- Ensure nursery management practices are adhere to
- Ensure fertilizer application is done according to routine management
Education
Bachelor of Science - Agricultural Extension Education - University of Eldoret (2012 - 2016)
Certificate of Secondary Education - St John Tachasis secondary school (2008 - 2011)
Certificate of Primary Education - Tachasis primary school (1999 - 2007)
