Farm manager at Ga-Pila Community Development Trust (2024-10-15 – 2025-06-30)
- Manage all farm activities, daily, weekly and weekend duties.
- Develop, present and initiate the implementation of a longterm strategic farm plan focused on the sustainability and profitability.
- Conduct regular inspection, oversee the maintenance, timely repair and proper usage of all farm assets, including machinery, infrastructure and equipment and identify any necessary repair.
- Assess farm's current operations, resources and potential for future growth.
- Identifying opportunities for expansion and diversification.
- Ensure production inputs and other supplies are well-stocked and appropriately used.
- Secure farm produce market, managing relationships with buyers, distributors and other stakeholders to drive consistent revenue growth.
- Retain existing market partnerships by delivering high-quality produce, maintaining strong communication and ensuring reliability in supply.
Assistant Agricultural Practitioner at Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural development (2023-01-19 – 2023-07-30)
- Monitoring farms by regular farm visits.
- Establish and initiate new project farmers and home gardens.
- Revive inactive projects.
- Identification and mobilize interest groups to form entities, cooperatives, institution or farmers associations.
- Managing enterprise development projects, providing technical guidance, facilitating access to markets and funding.
- Ensuring compliance with agricultural, socioeconomic and BBBEE standards.
- Assist in providing technical support on all agricultural projects, food security initiatives and land development support programs.
- Rendering general advice to internal and external clients to ensure sustainability development.
- Engage with government bodies, community groups and assisting in partnering with relevant agricultural stakeholders.
- Build relationships to foster collaboration and support.
- Demonstrating farming method.
- Facilitate capacity building and provide aftercare.
- Design and lead workshops, brainstorming sessions and problem-solving activities.
- Develop and implement business models for sustainable growth.
- Assist in organizing meetings, farmers day and information days.
- Compile and submit monthly and quarterly reports.
Agricultural Coordinator at Entsika consulting services (2017-02-01 – 2019-07-30)
- Information gathering, collection of acquisition, valuation reports, sale agreement and other related documents for farm assessment purpose.
- Visit farms and community property association (CPA) to do assessments and evaluation.
- Verification of asset on PLAS farms.
- Provide relevant support and advises that will make farmers grow.
- Monitoring crop and animal production farmers.
- Farm assessment.
Pack-House Manager/Farm manager at Mogalakwena Incubator (2015-08-03 – 2017-01-30)
- Ensure that pack house is ready for production prior to the onset of the shift.
- Ensure scales, knives, cloths, etc are prepared on a daily basis before work commence.
- Inspect and ensure all hygiene protocols are followed through Global Gap standards.
- Ensure all intake and raw material quality control checks are done when new product arrives.
- Monitoring of traceability and identification of product in case of rejections.
- Oversee compliance with all quality and food safety standards, and conduct internal audits.
- Ensure that quality and due Global Gap diligence records are accurate and up to date.
- Communicating with markets and prepare orders according to specification.
- Ensure correct use of labels and packaging materials as according to specifacation.
- Oversee customer complaints procedure and report writing.
- Control hygiene and quality assurance.
- Monitoring product spec for each market.
Farmer Support Field Officer at Buhle Farmers Academy (2014-01-03 – 2015-03-28)
- Register farmers on Farming for Profit (FFP) and Farmers Administration Service Target (FAST) program.
- Travel regularly to visit farms, projects and stakeholders engagement.
- Recruit, initiate and monitor projects.
- Provide post training support to Buhle Alumni.
- Provide technical support, assisting in drafting budget, business plans and production strategies.
- Coordinate and facilitate market access opportunities to project farmers.
- Link farmers with market, financial institutions, buyers and other stakeholders.
- Facilitate capacity building and projects needs.
- Promote business growth and profitability.
- Organize market days, expos, promotional events and farmers days.
- Monitor and advice on market performance.
- Building and maintaining relationship with different stakeholders and partners.
- Compile weekly, monthly and quarterly report.
