Horticulture Lead

Posted Date 03 Jan 2025 Function Business Area Corporate Services Location Jamnagar Job Responsibilities 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 B Sc M Sc in Horticulture Experience Requirement 12-15 years of experience Skills Competencies 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