Duties and Responsibilities
- To be able to produce a quality product using scientific methods to implement the crop development plan.
- He is responsible for managing the project and overseeing its progress.
- To ensure that the work is carried out on time.
- To ensure that crops are scientifically cultivated, cared for, and protected from diseases and pests, as well as monitored and evaluated.
- To increase production and productivity, he ensures that improved crop technologies and research results available locally and internationally are correctly reproduced and properly stored.
- Conduct studies on improving crop development and profitability.
- Ensure that harvested crops are handled safely without spoiling or waste, and implement best practices for utilizing the harvested products.
- Develop a 15-day plan: assign contracts, monitor, and evaluate the performance of team members.
- Prepare and use crop packages for crop development.
- Regularly prepare a crop development plan, schedule, and performance report, and submit it to the closest supervisor.
- Collect data from research results on various crops for farmers and semi-pastoral methods of production, considering the experiments and practices carried out in agro ecology, and prepare or provide crop development packages for consumers.
- Compile a package of improved crop development technologies for farmers and semi-pastoralists, identify the suitable ecosystem for each crop type, organize them sequentially, implement them, prepare reports, and analyze the results.
- Address farmers' needs and offer professional advice on the use of technology.
Service Process Users
Service process users include farmers, semi-pastoral cooperatives, private investors, crop developers, urban residents, stakeholders, regional governments, resource-supplying organizations, non-governmental organizations, research institutes, higher education institutions, and government bodies such as the Ministry of Agriculture, Trade, Industry and Market Liaison, Planning Commission, Finance Bureau, Health Bureau, Environmental Protection and Forestry Authority, Cooperative Agency, Education Bureau, Public Service and Human Resource Development Bureau, Technical and Vocational Training Bureau, Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, and Agricultural Inputs Quality Control and Quarantine.
Consumer Needs
- Consistent access to improved crop cultivation technologies that enhance production and productivity with the desired quality and timing, along with technologies that improve production and productivity.
- Access to actionable training, expert advice, and professional support.
- Access to up-to-date market and crop information for producing market-oriented products.
- Private investors need professional support, information cooperatives, and stakeholder information.
- Rapid and sustainable crop production and productivity growth.
- Competitive crop production market.
- Problem-solving and participation of farmers/semi-pastoralists.
- Resource-providing organizations need sufficient understanding of resource utilization and the ability to access and use resources as needed.
- Access to improved information exchange for farmers/semi-pastoralists.
- Supporting non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to provide problem-solving and coordinate crop development services that ensure farmers'/semi-pastoralists' participation.
Coordination & Management Functions
- Coordinate a unified approach to successful crop development.
- Develop mechanisms for cooperation, resource sharing, and other necessary actions to achieve the sector's mission.
- Promote a culture of communication in a way that serves as an example for other work processes and ensures standardized work outcomes.
- Identify skill gaps that hinder the achievement of the mission, work with those involved in the process, and submit training requests to the Sector Coordinator.
- Develop and implement solutions that consider existing conditions and achieve desired results by creating and using solutions adapted to current circumstances. Ensures that results are achieved, practical training resources are provided, and information is collected and reported.
- Welcomes trainees coming for practical training and coordinates with staff to ensure they have a proper understanding of crop development, and provides on-the-job training and professional support to departmental staff.
- Ensures that resources required for crop development work are provided on time and are readily available, monitors overall progress of development work, and provides professional support.
- Ensures that workers in various roles under crop development work responsibly and are accountable, and provides professional assistance.
- Compiles complete statistical data on crop development and shares the information with the relevant person according to instructions from the nearest supervisor when requested.
- Submits reports on problems encountered daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly, etc., to the sector head in writing within the prescribed submission periods.
- Explains the process during performance evaluation, prepares a crop development package, and makes it available for use.
Research & Development Functions
- Regularly prepares a crop development plan, schedule, and performance report and submits it to the nearest supervisor.
- Gathers information from studies on various crops and the semi-pastoral production method, taking into account agro ecological experiments and practices, develops crop development packages containing new, environmentally friendly research results, or makes them available to users.
- Compiles a set of improved crop development packages by formulating the best practices of the area for farmers and semi-pastoralists.
- Compiles a set of improved crop technologies, identifies the appropriate ecosystem for each crop type, sequences them according to specifications, implements them, prepares reports, and analyzes the results.
- To understand the current situation, collects various written and unwritten data and identifies the needs or problems of consumers and stakeholders through previous field research and the new organization in the Sidama region.
- Identifies that farmers using new technologies and methods to increase production and productivity, achieve self-sufficiency in food crops, supply raw materials to industrialists, and increase their income by being competitive in the market face a lack of professional support and counseling services as noted in the report.
- Ensures the research team has a good understanding of the current state of affairs according to the operating system and moves forward toward fundamental change study.