Felix Ogutu

Experienced agricultural professional with expertise in tasks such as crop management and fertilization, farm equipment maintenance and repair, and field cultivation. Excellent ability to apply agricultural skills to practice and yield excellent results from work. Prior experience farming in various capacities, including dairy farm, vegetable farm, and orchard settings. Took on managerial roles in prior positions and supervised progress in agricultural tasks completed by other workers. Successfully trained farmers on drought tolerant crops and farming which resulted to doubled yield thus increase in profits from sales.

• Comprehensive knowledge about farming, crop cultivation techniques.

• Sound knowledge about crop protection aspects and chemical fertilizers

• Ability to suggest methods to protect crop from climate change and develop a sustainable farming production

• Capable of recommending crop production techniques to maximize sales potential.

• Ability to execute plans to ensure high value farming products.

• Exemplary leadership and supervisory skills

• Reliable, hardworking, prioritizes issues, and result oriented.

• Proficient in budgeting and sales management

• Innovative problem-solving abilities

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Skilled in mechanical and physical requirements of work

• Knowledge of quality control processes, and storage and handling techniques

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Word and Excel.

• Visiting, supervising and giving advisory services to the farmers.

• Training farmers on different farming techniques for drought areas.

• Empowerment and mobilization of the farmers through demonstration in farm activities.

• Worked alongside farmhands to plant, harvest, and fertilize crops on land while supervising and resolving problems

• Purchasing farm supplies like agrochemicals, seeds and fertilizers.

• Management of sales and marketing of farm products like crop harvest and production.

• Worked between farmhands and management to communicate and mediate any issues that may arise on either side

• Budgeting the farm management and accomplishing the farm activities within the planned budget.

• Conducting survey on the farming systems on farmers’ fields.

• Assist farmers to developed cropping plans based on the business plan.

• Assist in implementing cropping plans by issuing crop depending on the region-specific agronomic standards.