Agriculture Production Expert (fruits) - Component Lead I Horticulture Value Chain promotion project in Uzbekistan

For an ongoing project in Uzbekistan, we are looking for an 

Agriculture Production Expert (fruits) / Component Lead

Planned activities: 

Capacity building for the horticulture producers: 

• To conduct seminars or workshops to horticulture crop growers in order to introduce Two-step loan of the Project, basic business management and outline of the TA. (every year during the implementation of the TA)
• To provide on-demand technical advices to End-users (horticulture crop growers) upon the request directly from them or indirectly from PFIs or other channels.
• To conduct training of trainers for the extension service providers such as AKIS, agronomists of PFIs, staff of National Farmer’s Council and private agro-consulting companies which potentially provide technical advices to horticulture crop growers.
• To organize Farm Field School in collaboration with demonstration plots, agriculture-related universities and regional core farmers/agro-enterprises.
• To summarize and put into public relations if there are excellent producers’ cases applying advanced horticulture production technologies cases.
• To evaluate the outcomes of the TA, finalize FFS training materials and distribute the FFS training materials together with recommendations to the related governmental authorities (e.g. AKIS) and regional universities.

Analyze bottlenecks in seedling

• To interview market players and agricultural farmers and institutes
• To survey current governmental policy for quality improvement of seedling

Draft strategy to solve identified bottlenecks of seedling

• To draft action plans based on analysis of the quality, variety, and supply of seedling
• To gather opinions on the draft action plans from stakeholders
• To finalize action plans as strategy for quality improvement