Agriculturist- Agronomy/horticulture

**About the Projects**:
National Centre for Human Settlement & Environment (NCHSE) with support from ITC is implementing Climate Smart Village (CSV) Programme promoting climate resilient agricultural practices in villages of Alirajpur, Ashok Nagar, Badwani, Chhatarpur, Chhindwara, Damoh, Dewas, Dhar, Indore, Jhabua, Khandwa, Khargone, Mandsaur, Neemuch, Rajgarah, Ratlam, Sagar, Sehore, Tikamgarh, Ujjain and Vidisha districts of Madhya Pradesh.

The project promotes Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) with climate smart village (CSV) concept, which include water smart, weather smart, nutrient smart, seed smart, carbon smart & knowledge smart. This approach helps the farmers in taking actions needed to transform and reorient agricultural systems to effectively support development and ensure food security in a changing climate. CSA aims to tackle three main objectives: sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and incomes; adapting and building resilience to climate change; and reducing and/or removing greenhouse gas emissions, where possible. Programme promotes following actions:

- Integrated water management to improve water use efficiency;
- Use of compost and discourage use of chemicals in agriculture
- Regeneration, conservation and optimum utilization of natural resources in the project area for enhancing livelihood of watershed community.
- Ecological restoration of common land through increasing vegetative covers for drought proofing.
- Providing livelihood opportunities for the poor; and facilitating employment opportunities and economic avenues, particularly for women and marginal families.
- Creating and strengthening farmer’s institutions for bringing value addition in the present farming system.
- Capacity building of officials (REO, SADO, ATM, BTM (ATMA) and other Block officers) of Farmers Welfare and Agriculture Department and Animal Husbandry Department.
- Capacity building of farmers in implementation of CSA practices through Farmers Field School (FFS) model and demonstration of actions in their fields,
- Convergence with Government schemes, especially that of Agriculture department

NCHSE requires qualified and experienced Agriculturist (preferably specialization in Agronomy/ Horticulture) to assist implementation of project in 21 districts of Madhya Pradesh.

**Responsibilities and Duties**

Agriculturist will be responsible for the following:

- Programme implementation in coordination with ITC, Government line department and local beneficiaries,
- organize field demonstration and conduct training programmes on CSA & CSV Practices through FFS
- Facilitate convergence with Government schemes to benefit the farmers
- monitoring of progress against the target set for the Project area.
- Reporting progress in desired format and schedule to NCHSE & ITC

Required Qualification: Post-graduate in Agriculture (Agronomy/Horticulture). Graduate applicants should not apply

**Experience**:
Atleast 2-3 years working experience in implementation of Agriculture sector projects

**Additional Knowledge and Skills required**:
Ability to guide farmers in adopting Climate-smart agricultural practices

**Job Types**: Full-time, Temporary
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: ₹300,000.00 - ₹360,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Cell phone reimbursement
- Health insurance

Schedule:

- Day shift

**Experience**:

- total work: 2 years (preferred)

Application Deadline: 08/06/2024
Expected Start Date: 20/06/2024