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The Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) collaborates with the Ministry of Agriculture in the implementation of the program to engage young people in agriculture called Building a Better tomorrow- BBT. BBT is implemented through various strategies and projects in the value chain of crops and some of its goals are to increase employment for 20,000 youth and women through skills development activities (internship), to establish 12,000 economic activities at the village level as well as the cultivation of large farms (Block farms) by 2030.
As part of the strategy to strengthen extension services in this country, the Ministry of Agriculture has also planned to implement a special program for extension services through young graduates (BBT Agricultural Extension Entrepreneurship Scheme- BBT AEES). Through BBT-AEES under SUA two thousand positions (2000) need to be filled by graduates of agricultural fields to provide extension services in the cotton crop in the order of temporary employment as follows:-
Open Positions and Description
1. Agriculture Officer- 1000 Posts
Provide expert advice to farmers and other stakeholders in the value chain of the cotton crop by doing the following:
- To provide education on good cotton farming to farmers from preparing the field, harvesting to storage in the barn
- Providing education and managing the quality of cotton from the farm to the barn
- To monitor and ensure that farmers comply with the principles of good cotton cultivation
- Prepare and provide weekly information about the progress of agriculture in the relevant area
- Prepare input requirements for farmers and submit them to the relevant authorities
- To manage and ensure that the inputs sent to the relevant area reach the farmers fully.
2. Assistant Agriculture Officer – 1000 Posts
Provide expert advice to farmers and other stakeholders in the value chain of the cotton crop by doing the following:
- To provide education on good cotton farming to farmers from preparing the field to harvesting
- Providing education and managing the quality of cotton from the farm to the barn
- To monitor and ensure that farmers comply with the principles of good cotton cultivation
- Prepare and provide weekly information about the progress of agriculture in the relevant area
- Prepare input requirements for farmers and submit them to the relevant authorities
- To manage and ensure that the inputs sent to the relevant area reach the farmers fully.
Application Process
How to apply:
All applications must be accompanied by:
- Copies of birth certificates, NIDA, secondary education certificates, diplomas and degrees from training institutions recognized by the government. Prospective graduates (2024) with the qualifications mentioned above, are encouraged to send their applications also attaching copies of “partial transcript” or “results slips”.
- Two recent passport size photographs of the applicant
- Curriculum vitae of the applicant along with full address, telephone contact, e-mail and addresses of three reliable referees.
All applications should be sent to the Department of Agriculture of Sokoine University of Agriculture via e-mail [email protected] with a copy to the director-directorate of undergraduate degrees of Sokoine University of Agriculture [email protected] . Applicants are advised to send their application via email although they can also bring the application directly to the above mentioned office.
Application deadline:
All applications must reach us on or before 25 September 2024.