Agricultural Agriculture

Location:

Kampala, Uganda

Posted:

February 13, 2021

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HabomugishaRichard CV

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Profile

I am an agricultural development and innovation communication Expert with over 15 years of experience gathered from both government service and private sector. My experience is in agriculture production and management, promotion of sustainable agriculture, agricultural innovation development, agricultural value addition, value chain development, management of multi-stakeholder Innovation platforms, agricultural policy advocacy, and management of agro-industry processes. I have proven strategic planning, management and organisational skills with great interpersonalrequired in fast changing environments.

Personal Details

Surname:

Habomugisha

Gender:

Male

First Names:

Richard

Nationality:

Ugandan

Date of Birth:

23rd December 1978

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Address

Nyakagyezi

Butogota T/Council

Kanungu Uganda

Telephone

+256-***-******

Skills, Areas of Technical Expertise

Agricultural program and strategy development

Value chains and value chain analysis

Agriculture innovation development

Capacity development and leadership (program staff and implementing partners)

Gender in Agriculture, Food Security and Rural Development

Capacity building, coaching and mentorship for partners value chains.

Sustainable Livelihoods Framework / Approach

Agricultural products value addition development

Promotion of agro-industry within farming communities

Communication strategy development

Promotion of innovation

Multi-stakeholder agricultural innovation platform

Major Achievements

Period

Organisation

Achievements

2015 - 2019

Kigezi Highland Tea Ltd

-Trained 114 crop-based production staff within 07 Districts of the project area and mentored them on tea value chain development,

-Worked with different districts to develop MoUs and implemented and managed MoU with each of the different Districts for better output performance.

-Over 45 tea estates were established, managed and supervised

-66 extension workers and estate managers were recruited, retained, coached and mentored into tea crop specialists.

-Developed an agricultural marketing system to enable smallholder farmers to market their produce.

-Over 1200 nursery bed operators and their managers were trained, mentored and backstopped to produce the required quality tea seedlings

-Over 35000 new smallholder farmers planted tea and are now in productions in the districts of Bushenyi, Mitooma, Rukungiri, Ntungamo, Rukiga, Kanungu, Kabale, Rubanda and Kisoro.

-6 tea processing factories have been constructed to meet the agro-industry, in Kanungu, Bushenyi, Kisoro and Kabale Districts

-Carried out over 25 radio talk shows on tea development project within the region.

2010 -2015

Kanungu District

-Over 5000 acres of coffee were planted and all the seedlings raised by local nursery operatorstrained, mentored and monitored

-On agro-industry: 2 tea factories, 20 coffee hullers, 15 rice huller, 40 maize/millet/sorghummilling machines were established by private entities and monitored of quality assurance and business development

-11000 acres of tea were planted and all the seedlings raised by 230 local nursery operators that were trained, mentored and monitored

-Over 8000 farmers were recruited to tea growing and more line of tea processing and factories have been established.

-Quality and highly motivated district production staff

-Carried out and Conducted over 50 agricultural radio talkshows.

2005- 2010

Kanungu District

-Established over 200 demonstration plots and trails of Vanilla, upland rice, coffee, banana, pineapple, cabbages, passion fruits, maize, beans among others

- Introduced 18 women groups into savings and credit under AAMP.

-Carried out over 700 trainings of farmers and farm groups in food security, nutrition, sustainable natural resources use,

-Coordinated AAMP and NAADS at sub county levels.

Academic Background

Period

Institution, Degree, Specialisation

2008 -2009

University of Reading, England – UK: Master of Science in Communication for Innovation and Development. Subject of dissertation: Communicating Soil Fertility Enhancement to Smallholder Farmers in Uganda.

1999 - 2003

Makerere University, Kampala – Uganda: Bachelor of Science in Agriculture.Subject of dissertation:Analysis of Factors Affecting Green Tea Leaf Supply in Kinkiizi - Uganda

Short Courses

Period

Institution Offering Training

Subject of Study

Oct 12 – 15 2009

World Bank

Post Disaster Damage and Losses Assessment

March 3rd - 6th 2008

Makerere University

Trainers Course Soil Management and Fertilizer Utilisation.

Feb 05 – Feb 9 2008

HR & Management Agency Ltd

Supervisory skills enhancement

June11-July20 2006

Regional Centre for Training and Water Studies,Cairo-Egypt/ Nile Basin Initiative

On-farm Water Management (Irrigation and Drainage)

Deployments and Assignments (Work Experience)

Position:

Project consultant

Job Summary

Employer:

Kigezi Highland Tea Ltd

Introduction and promotion of the tea enterprise, carryout and manage all the trainings along the tea value chain, enlist tea mother garden owners, management and production of quality tea seedlings, established of nuclear tea estates and training of production staff through entire tea value chain.

Period:

1st August 2015 – March 2019

Project(s)

Tea development intervention project (Public-Private Partnership between Uganda government and Kigezi Highland tea Ltd)

Duty Station:

Kampala with frequent field travel

Major responsibilities

(i)Implement public private partnership tea development project, facilitate multi-stakeholder platforms innovation of government agencies and private entities.

(ii)Build the institutional capacity of Kigezi Highland Tea Ltd to better management tea production and management under smallholder farmer arrangement system.

(iii)Advising District Local Governments on promotion and management of tea enterprise value chain development.

(iv)Oversee all field operations and management of project activities in all the 7 districts under the project.

(v)Mentor Local Governments on the development of the project and enforcement of regulations in the tea sector.

(vi)Carry out mobilisation, sensitisation and promotion of the tea development project.

(vii)Training of Local Government Extension workers, Tea Nursery Operators and other stakeholders in tea agronomic practices.

(viii)Supervise, mentor and conduct follow-ups to all Kigezi Highland Tea Ltd extension workers, nursery development, farm development, factory establishment and farmer mobilization for cooperative development.

(ix)Carry out monitoring and evaluation, and submit field reports.

Position:

Principal Agricultural Officer

Job Summary

Employer:

Kanungu District Local Government

provide leadership, technical support and guidance for delivery of quality agricultural extension services under crop department.

Period:

Oct 2010 – July 2015

Project(s)

General agricultural extension

Duty Station:

Kanungu District

Major responsibilities

-Formulating and implementing policies, programmes and laws on agriculture sub sector addressing food and nutritional security.

-Design and development of communication strategies for attitude and behavioural change among farmers and their implementation.

-Supervising and managing the agricultural activities, programmes and staff

-Evaluating and preparing status reports on production, nutrition and marketing activities

-Managing and accounting for all the resources availed for the sub-sector

-Carrying on-farm experimentation, on-farm trails and demonstrations, giving technical support to farmers and extension workers.

-Developing programmes and training both staff and farmers in production technologies and value addition

-Development of commodity multi-stakeholder processes for tea, coffee among others

-Management of crop disease and pest outbreaks/ control

Position:

Agricultural Officer

Job Summary

Employer:

Kanungu District

Train and Impart skills to the farmers on modern productive and sustainable agriculture practices and technologies

Period:

2004 – Oct 2010

Project(s)

General Agricultural Extension

Duty Station:

Kanungu District

Major responsibilities

(i)Routine extension service delivery to the farmers on enterprise development and management, group dynamics, breakeven analysis, marketing and husbandry practices for coffee, tea, banana, cereal crops and horticultural crops among others

(ii)Carrying out household food security mapping during livelihood analysis in the district for improved pro-poor targeting interventions.

(iii)Distribution of the matching grants to beneficiary groups and training groups on financial management, savings and credit

(iv)Monitoring of the enterprises and carry out evaluations.

(v)Drafting the terms of references and contracts for extension service providers.

Computer Skills

MS Office: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power point Analysis packages: SPSS, Stata,

Language Proficiency

English:Very good (Spoken, written)

References

Capt. Charles Byaruhanga

Project Coordinator

Kigezi Highland Tea Ltd