National Tobacco Enterprise (Ethiopia) Sh. co. is one of the largest enterprises and taxpayers in the country. It is also one of the biggest employers in the country, providing direct and indirect employment to more than 5000 Ethiopians.

Purpose:

Under close supervision, carries out promotional and awareness raising campaigns with farmers, registers farmers who want to be engaged in tobacco production, advices’ and supports Agronomy Associates /F.C./ in their day-to-day activities to establish cordial and good working relationship with farmers, ensures that farmers get all the necessary technical and material support in sustainable manner.

Main Areas of Responsibility:

• Supervises the quality and the timely preparation of seed beds and ensures the preparation of adequate ideal tobacco seedling, ensures registration of adequate number of farmers who have preselected ideal farm land, ensures distribution of only ideal tobacco seedlings , issues & distributes fertilizer & other material supports w/t proper record and provide technical supports timely to farmers, and finally
• Ensures successful performance of his assigned area planned hectarage and wet leaf production volume.
• Works to establish respectful extension system with farmers to enable farmers to smoothly accept & apply all directions & advices’ given by the agronomic team.
• To enhance leaf production quantity & quality, ensures the adequacy of the land preparation prior to seedling distribution.
• Checks and ensures the proper and adequate application of cultural practices like correct spacing, proper transplanting, on time Irrigation, cultivation, fertilization, Ridging, weeding, proper pest control, timely topping, De suckering, ripping only ripe leaf by position, only buys clearly graded & bundled tied wet tobacco leaf, ensures proper handling & loading of wet tobacco leaf etc.
• Ensures implementation of MAS / minimum agronomic standards / of the above-mentioned operations on the nursery and on his assigned production areas.
• Ensures Clear separation/grading of 1st & 2nd grade before buying, ensures correct grades to the quality and correct net weight to the quantity of wet tobacco leaf during buying; submit neat green leaf buying sheet on time to his supervisor.
• Closely follow-up and ensures that Agronomy Associates and other workers are performing their daily duties as per given instructions and programmers’, works /ensures for respectful & long-lasting extension system with farmers.
• Makes proper, effective and economic use of assigned materials and properties, prepares & submit well organized reports about prepared lands, distributed seedling, fertilizer & other inputs, transplanted hectares, performed agronomic practices and performs related tasks as required.

Job Requirements

Education: BSC or College Diploma in plant science or extension.

Work Experience: 2 years for BSC degree holders and 4 years for College Diploma holders with experience in Agriculture /Agricultural Extension/.