Job Description

Posted Date :

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03 Jan 2025

Function/Business Area :

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Corporate Services

Location :

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Jamnagar

Job Responsibilities :

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1. To provide technical guidance and monitor all the horticultural operational activities


2. Refine and revise technology manuals on cultivation practices for plantation and maintenance of plantations


3. Demonstrate & train the Managers in important field operations


4. To prepare the revenue and capital budgets with the help of Zonal and Unit Managers & to seek approvals for the budgets/proposals


5. To arrange for procurement of various inputs/machinery/tools etc


6. To arrange for maintenance of plantations & machinery/equipment#s/buildings/facilities through the Contractors



7. To arrange for the security of the land/ plantations/ machinery/buildings etc in the possession of the department


8. Monitoring the water requirements of all the plantations as per the age of plantations, season and physiological stage of plants


9. To arrange for the disposal of the farm produce


10. To monitor maintaining the accounts of the Department. And comply with audit of the accounts.


11. To develop norms regarding costs/water/labour required for various activities for future use.


12. Monitor the soil and plant health especially regarding the soil salinity and pH and their effects on the plant growth and production.


13. Continuous pest surveillance and suggest remedial measures for any disease / pest incidence occurring on all the plantations


14. Investigate any new incidence of disease or pest occurring with the help of outside experts in the field


15. Investigate any new incidence of disease or pest occurring with the help of outside experts in the field


16. Work out the protocol for conversion of mango plantations into Homa Organic Farming system on a trial basis and evaluate it with conventional production system


17. Facilitate conversion of entire existing horticulture plantations into Homa Organic Farming in phased manner


18. Facilitate conversion of conventional Kesar mango trees into Jumbo Kesar variety by top working in reasonable time


19. Identify bottlenecks in existing production and get them debottlenecked through R & D


20. Provide technical inputs in preparing & maintaining new plantations in repsective areas under organic system of production


21. To prepare and submit MIS reports

Education Requirement :

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B.Sc/ M.Sc in Horticulture

Experience Requirement :

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12-15 years of experience

Skills & Competencies :

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1. Soil- plant relationship


2. Water & nutrient requirements of hort. crops


3. Principles of weed management


4. Use of plant growth regulators in Horticulture


5. Major diseases & pests and their control


6. Role of climate & weather in horticulture management



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