Experience in Research
Resume:
Classification: General Business Use
CURRICULUM VITAE
JULIUS KIPLANGAT MUTAI
Contact Address: Box 3, Chemaner – Via Bomet
Tel: +254-***-***-***
OTHER PERSONAL DETAILS:
DATE OF BIRTH: 08th May, 1978
SEX: Male
MARITAL STATUS: Married
NATIONALITY: Kenyan
RELIGION: Christian
LANGUAGES: Kalenjin, Lingala, English and Kiswahili E-MAIL: ad5tbw@r.postjobfree.com
OBJECTIVE:
To exploit my skills, energy and experience geared towards attainment of Millennium Development Goals and Kenya Vision 2030
EDUCATION BACKGROUND
Date School/College Examination & Grades Obtained
2023- Ongoing University of Eldoret
Department of Agricultural
Economics
PhD. Agricultural Economics
2008 – 2013
Egerton
University/University of
Pretoria
Department of Agricultural
Economics and
Agribusiness Management
MSc. Agricultural Economics and Applied
Economics
(Research Topic: Farmers’ Participation and
Performance Analysis of Grain Warehouse Receipt
System In Nakuru District, Kenya)
1998 - 2003 Egerton University
Department of Agricultural
Economics and
Agribusiness Management
BSc. Agricultural Economics
(Award: Second Class Honors,)
1993 -1996 Tengecha Boys High
School
KCSE Exams;
Mean grade of B plain.
1985 -1992 Chemaner Pri. School KCPE Exam; B+ plain (521 marks) 2
Classification: General Business Use
PUBLICATIONS:
Mutai J.K., Mshenga P.,Njehia B.K and Kosgei G.K.(2013). Socio-Economic Factors Influencing Farmers’ Participation in Grain Warehouse Receipt System and the Extent of Participation in Nakuru District, Kenya. The international institute for Science, Technology and Education. Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development (Online)
Mutai J.K., Mshenga P.,Njehia B.K and Ngenoh E.K.(2015). Comparison of maize marketing costs and returns under Grain Warehouse Receipt System with other post-harvest trading options in Nakuru District, Kenya Journal of Agriculture and Veterinary Science (Under review) WORK EXPERIENCE:
Date & Position Duty(s)
June 2023 to Date
Status: Head of Africa,
Fertart Pte Ltd, Singapore.
Cover Fertilizer sales for the African market. Develop business in the Area, Negotiate with Suppliers and Buyers.
November 2021-January
2022
Status: Consultancy-
Senior Agriculture and
Agritech Advisor.
Innovation Norway_
Commercial Section of
Norwegian Embassy.
• Prepared, planned and facilitated introduction to key stakeholders for Innovation Norway East Africa office.
• Supported and facilitated networking between key agricultural organisations and industry and the Innovation Norway East Africa team and customers
• Planned field-visit as preparation for Business Delegation on Agriculture
• Prepared and communicated relevant documents including reports and presentations
September 2018 to Date
Status: Sales Executive,
Agri-nutrients- Africa
Region
Saudi Basic Industries
Corporation (SABIC)
• Grow Agri-nutrients Business in the private and the public sectors.
• Maintaining relationships at international, national and county level with both technocrats and key decision makers and represent the Brand at industry as well as farm level events.
• Attainment of stipulated sales targets.
• Responsible for sales and marketing activities of the business across East Africa.
• Representing the company at various meetings, conferences and exhibitions.
August 2020-January
2021
Status: Consultancy,
Kenya Market Trust(KMT)
Assessed the economic viability of the granulated lime by analyzing the supply, demand, costs and returns/benefits at the key value chain nodes including at the farm level.
• Desk top reviews
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o Conducted a desk review of existing data on the market potential for agricultural lime in Kenya;
o Conducted a desk review of the economic potential of the Kenyan agricultural lime
o Desktop research into comparable markets in the
Agricultural sectors
• Field surveys
o Conducted field trips to establish readiness and identify capacity gaps that would need to unlock the Kenyan agricultural lime industry;
o Conducted interviews with farmers, inputs stockists and distributors as well as lime manufacturers
• Analyzed data and report
o Compared our empirical findings with those of the previous studies done around granulated lime;
o Identified the market opportunities for investors and the economic benefits for both the value chain
investors and smallholder farmers;
o Assessed estimated timeline for the development and take-off of the granulated lime market in Kenya;
o Identified the barriers and challenges that could undermine the local manufacture and use of granulated lime in Kenya;
o Assessed the policy-legal and regulatory readiness for the large-scale manufacture and use of agricultural lime in Kenya; and
o Generated key suitable recommendations on the way forward for Kenya to adopt the local manufacturing and use of agricultural lime.
June, 2017
Status: Consultancy,
World Vision
Market Survey on Energy Technologies in Chepalungu Sub-county, Bomet County;
• Established types of energy sources (for cooking and lighting) used in households within the targeted communities.
• Assessed market dynamics in clean energy for cooking and lighting (Factors in demand and supply for clean energy option).
• Analyzed Socio economic and socio cultural dynamics affecting the preferred energy source (cooking and lighting) utilized in households (What drives a household to use the preferred energy option).
• Identified the capacity needs of community members in respect to enhancing clean energy efficient technologies (cook stoves, solar or biogas) and recommend the best
methodology/practice to strengthen energy efficient technologies
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• Assessed availability of raw materials, types of cook stoves and delivery mechanism to targeted beneficiaries (value chain in energy efficient cook stoves) in the target community.
• To assess the availability and types of solar systems and the business models in place to reach the target communities
• Gave detailed recommendations that inform interventions in clean and renewable energy in the target population. August 2015 to June
2017,
Status: Head of Fertilizer
sales
KEL chemicals Ltd
My main responsibilities were to;
• Develop sales strategies and setting targets
• Maintain a department organizational structure sufficient to meet all goals and objectives
• Motivate the sales team
• Provide for ongoing training of the sales team
• Manage relations with other departments such as Product development, Finance and production
• Execute annual plans for the Organizations Product range including value, volume and margin targets.
• Participate in Tenders.
• Forge profitable relationships with potential clients, and ensure the ambitious growth targets of the company are met
• Offer technical support to farmers by using optimum quantity of fertilizers
• Work with the Product Development department to find and successfully implement new blend of fertilizers to keep ahead of the industry.
• Perform agronomic issues for all the fertilizers, work closely with the key clients to build upon existing relationships such as the NCPB, research institutions and other Government agencies
• Identify new business and product testing opportunities
• Develop channel and market strategies for area distribution encompassing outlet coverage, availability and visibility.
• Implement and administer sales systems, reporting, distributor policies, stock norms, application of credit and discounts, billing and collections.
• Develop Sales promotion plans for delivering sales volumes
• Analyze sales outlet performance at regular intervals to initiate corrective action.
• Ensure periodic meetings at customer outlets to calibrate customer expectations, understand competitor plans in order to proactively counter competitive action
Jan 2015 to August 2015,
Egerton University,
Position: Part time
Lecturer
Department of Agricultural
Economics and
Agribusiness Management
Lecturing and examining students on Principles of marketing, Research methods and Agricultural Value chains analysis. 5
Classification: General Business Use
16th sep-22nd December
2014,
HORTINLEA project
(Egerton University,
Humboldt University,
Leibniz University)
Status: Field Supervisor
• Coordinate and supervise all enumeration activities in the sites during data collection process
• Monitor, check and access the quality of work of the enumerators
• Review the completed questionnaires during discussions for completeness, consistency and information accuracy.
• Conduct focus group discussions on food security
• Recording of Global Positioning System(GPS) for research participating households
• Data entry and cleaning using SPSS and STATA
July 2012 to July 2015,
Status: Consultancy on
project basis
AGRICOM Consultants
Ltd
Contact:
ad5tbw@r.postjobfree.com
• Assist communities in Full Proposal Development for Community Development Trust Fund (CDTF) projects.
Regions of jurisdiction: Coast, Central and North Eastern
• Community mobilization and training on savings and credit mobilization
• Conduct household baseline surveys for National Irrigation Board (NIB), JICA, Gatsby Rice and CIMMYT maize
mechanization projects.
• Data entry and cleaning
• Analyzing using EXCEL,STATA and SPSS
• Writing reports on research findings.
26th August-13th
September 2013. Status:
Questionnaire
Administrator.
African Investment
Climate Research
(AFRICRES), South
Africa.
Contact: ad5tbw@r.postjobfree.com
• Administering the questionnaires to Ten Farmer Organizations in Kenya
• Administering the questionnaires to four service providers in Kenya
• Gathering Contact details of Farmers Organizations and Service Providers in Kenya
• Sensitizing Farmers’ Organizations of the 2013 Farmer Organization of the Year Award
Feb-May 2013
Status: Consultancy
(Policy, Lobby and
advocacy)
The National Potato
Council of Kenya(NPCK)
Email:ad5tbw@r.postjobfree.com
Under ‘Enhancing Adoption of Harmonized Seed Standards, Regulations and Procedures in Eastern and Central Africa’ Project, the following were my responsibilities;
• Development of survey tools for Appraisal of adoption of Harmonized Seed Standards, Regulations and Procedures
(HESSREP) in participating countries.
• Identifying the need of domesticating Harmonized Seed Standards, Regulations and Procedures (HESSREP) in participating countries.
• Developing of a plan for Domestication and implementation of Harmonized Seed Standards, Regulations and Procedures
(HESSREP) in participating countries.
• Formation of country based task force and stakeholders platforms in participating countries.
• Developing of Terms of Reference for country based task force.
• Organizing of training workshops on strategy for developing roadmap and lobbying aimed enhancing domesticating 6
Classification: General Business Use
Harmonized Seed Standards, Regulations and Procedures
(HESSREP).
Under ‘Upscaling Innovations for Quality Seed Potato Production in Eastern and Central Africa’ project, the following were my responsibilities;
• Identifying current bottlenecks and champions in potato seed production with stakeholders in potato industry.
• Training farmers on Irish potato production and marketing
• Identifying of possible solutions to improve potato seed production with stakeholders in potato industry
• Drafting roadmap to develop protocols for quality declared seed with stakeholders in potato industry.
23RD February 2004 – 1ST
Aug 2009: Sales
coordinator,
Farm Input Promotions
Africa
Contact:
ad5tbw@r.postjobfree.com
• Sales coordination of agro chemicals
• Training farmers on good agricultural practices for horticultural crops and grains.
• Dissemination of modern farming technologies to farmers
• Training farm inputs stockists and farmers on safe and effective use of pesticides
• Training farmers on negotiation skills and marketing of agricultural inputs.
• Preparation of crop demonstration plots and organization of Agricultural exhibitions and trade shows
• Advising fertilizer companies in blending, packaging and distribution appropriate fertilizers and other soil amendments Formulation and setting of agricultural demonstrations
• Training community members in research /demonstrations
• Identification of farm input wholesalers and stockists to ensure timely availability of appropriate farm inputs to farmers
• Train community on Organizational Development, Legal Issues and Arbitration in Grain Trade
• Develop and implement methodology to increase adoption of appropriate farm inputs by farmers and in particular to:
• Liaise with the Ministry of agriculture and NGOs to promote use of appropriate farm inputs at community levels
• Recruit community members to promote use of appropriate inputs at community levels
• Implement a system of monitoring and evaluation to determine the impacts of the projects at the stockists and small scale farm levels
• Writing monthly reports on work progress
MEMBERSHIP
Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) Fertilizer and Soil Conditioners Technical Committee Member. 7
Classification: General Business Use
CORE STRENGTHS ON TRAINING AND PROFFESION
Training/Profession Relevance
Agricultural Economics Adequately trained on Agricultural and other socioeconomic Issues which also included skills in Research and Analysis techniques.
provided skill in data analysis (econometrics) and producing evaluation reports
Personal Attributes in a work
place
Honest, punctual, team player, positive and meet targets, works with minimum supervision.
Flexible and adopt to any working environment
Has widely traveled to a multi ethnic region, international experience in Tanzania and South Africa and also worked in hardship environment.
HOBBIES:
Traveling
Watching sports mainly, Athletics, Football and Boxing REFEREES:
1.
Professor Patience Mshenga
Lecturer : Department of
Agricultural Economics and
Agribusiness Management,
Egerton University
Tel No. +254***-******
2.
Professor Bernard Njehia
Lecturer : Department of
Agribusiness Management
and Trade, Kenyatta
University
Tel No. +254*********
3.
Mr. Nicholas Waiyaki
Managing Director,
Agricom Consultants Ltd
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