Production supervisor at Simba fresh ltd (2024-01 – 2024-09)
Crops; finebeans, tenderstem broccoli, chills, Hass Avocado
- In charge of all farm activities ranging from labor recruitment, distribution and management
- Crop Scouting
- Planning Crop feeding and protection program
- Supervising daily farm duties (land prep, drip installation, planting, irrigation, Harvesting, etc.)
Farm Scouts and spray supervisor at KHE RUPINGAZI RIVER FARM (2020-10 – 2023-12)
- Monitoring pest and disease levels and reporting for appropriate action to be taken
- Follow up on cultural and conventional methods done for the control of pests and disease
- Marking field into scouting stations for ease of monitoring of treatments done
- Involved in technical team and decision making
- Keeping accurate and clean scouting records and all chemical application records
- Ensuring observation of Pre Harvest Interval (PHI)
- Carrying out germination counts for all plantings to ensure correct plant population is attained
- Involved in the crop walk and making weekly work plan
- In charge of spray programmer making
- Ensuring proper mixing of chemicals
- Requisition of chemicals to be sprayed
- Monitoring of effectiveness of spray
- Calibration of the spray equipment
- Ensuring spray equipment are clean before and after work
- Monitoring pest and diseases level
- Involve in technical departments and decision making
- Caring out any trials being contracted in the farm
- Monitoring quality of all farm operations including irrigation, Support, Weeding and Harvesting and reporting for appropriate
Spray supervisor at GREENLAND'S AGRO PRODUCERS LTD (2017-02 – 2019-08)
Greenlands Agroproducers Ltd(EPZ) is a horticultural exporting company that deals with the production of various horticultural produce which include: Peas (garden peas, snow peas and sugar snaps), Green chilies, Green beans (i.e. Runner beans and Fine beans). They have farms located in various counties in the country, these include Nanyuki veg in Laikipia county, pioneer, materi and kabaikubu farms in Meru county, Jenem farm in Muranga county.
- General Supervision of the spray activities
- Maintenance of Spraying tools and equipment by making sure they are in proper working condition
- Proper record keeping both in soft and hard copies
- Analyzing, Monitoring and acting on scouting reports
- Being conversant with welfare of the workers by making sure that the PPEs provided is being worn and well cleaned and maintained
- Timely calibration of spray equipments thus making sure they are in good working condition
Industrial Attachment at KAGURU AGRICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER (MERU COUNTY) (2015-09 – 2015-11)
- Taken through mother stock and propagation
- Trained on Crop Protection and Fertigation
- Trained on Irrigation and Spraying
- Timing of harvest operations
- To prepare nursery beds and seedling raising
- To ensure crops and seedlings were well irrigated
- To prepare sleeves for planting seedlings
- To provide essential cultural practices to crops in the farm
