Job Description
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Duties and responsibilities at this level will include:
• Preparing livestock technical information;
• Providing technical advice in animal production, livestock marketing, range management, apiculture and ranching;
• Promoting economic livestock farming;
• Participating in organising extension activities in field days, agricultural shows, field demonstrations, farmers field schools and farm visits;
• Participating in collaborative research activities;
• Disseminating livestock production technologies such as construction of livestock housing and structures, milk production, pasture and fodder production and conservation, farm planning, gross margin analysis, on-farm feed formulation;
• Implementing livestock production programmes/projects in such areas as dairy cattle farming, beef cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, poultry, rabbits, camels, donkeys breeding programmes.
• Fodder production and conservation.
• Value addition to livestock products, apiculture, emerging livestock and other animal husbandry interventions;
• Capturing, maintaining and storing livestock data.
REQUIREMENTS FOR APPOINTMENT
For appointment to this grade an officer must have: -
• Be a Kenyan citizen;
• Bachelor's Degree in any of the following disciplines: - Animal Science, Animal Production, Agriculture, Food science and Technology,
• Agribusiness, Range Management, Natural Resource Management, Livestock/Agricultural Economics, Dairy Technology or Agricultural Education and Extension from a recognised institution;
• Certificate in computer application from a recognized institution.