Job Responsibilities

• Identifying development-oriented farmers with sufficient potential for use and benefiting from the LFMS.
• Assisting farmers in entering accurate and comprehensive data in the LFMS, monitoring the data quality, providing feedback to farmers and ensuring regularly updated and maintained records.
• Working with the farmers for capacity development related to the use of the LFMS. These tasks include communicating the findings of farm data analyses to extension workers, facilitating linkages with private sector input dealers and buyers, and supporting workers and farmers with specialized trainings collection and use of data, and in particular on\:
o Animal Nutrition\: Recording and analyzing data related to animal feed and nutrition and advising farmers on best practices for optimizing animal diets to improve health and productivity.
o Productivity Selection\: Analysis of productivity, tracking and selecting high-performing animals based on productivity data and recommendations for breeding and culling decisions to enhance herd performance.
o Reproduction\: Managing reproductive data, including breeding schedules and pregnancy tracking and advice in improving reproductive efficiency and outcomes.
o Technical Support to farmers experiencing issues with the FMS and liaising with the technical team to resolve any system-related problems.
• Documentation of best practices and lessons learned in animal nutrition, productivity selection, and reproduction.