Farm Manager, Hybrid Rice

Responsibilities & Context

Make a budget, annual action plan and implementation according to land target.

Supervise 160 to 240 acres land for seed production per year.

Assist JSS and TA, Hybrid Rice, Officer purchase to select hybrid rice seed production block

To ensure local and foreign materials purchase & supply on time.

To ensure on time seeding and produced robust seedlings.

To ensure transplanting within 7 to 10 days and ensure quality planting.

To ensure farmerâs training before transplanting and GA3 application & randomly checked 10% plot which is visited by JSS and TA, Hybrid Rice.

Provide technical and management support for quality seed production and evaluation ongoing activities by monitoring. To ensure process loss of produced seeds maximum 2%.

Staff development through meeting, coaching, counseling, feedback, mentoring & ensure accountability of the staff.

Verify Panicle Initiation checking to maintain adjustment of male and female parent and conduct rouging to maintain genetic purity of seeds.

Take necessary steps such as rouging, isolation, R line transplanting in boarder area & chatal management to maintain the germination % of seeds & seed quality.

Take necessary steps to produce diseases free, black spot free and minimum 98 % genetic purity F1 rice seeds.

To monitoring proper GA3 spraying and conduct supplementary pollination on time and make a schedule for seed harvesting, threshing & drying.

Keep update all documents, analyzing profit/loss and send monthly report & all SCA report to the supervisor, SCA & Agriculture office on time. Security of all BRACâs assets.

Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programmeâs goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.

Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.

Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.