Field Experiment-Research Technician
JOB DETAIL
ICRISAT seeks applications from Indian nationals, for the position of Research Technician –to support activities of Global Research Program on Resilient Farm and Food Systems (GRP-RF&FS). The incumbent will be based in one of the districts in Odisha state.
ICRISAT is a non-profit, non-political organization that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout the world. Covering 6.5 million square kilometers of land in 55 countries, the semi-arid or dryland tropics has over 2 billion people and 644 millions of these are the poorest of the poor. ICRISAT and its partners help empower these disadvantaged populations to overcome poverty, hunger and a degraded environment through better agricultural production systems.
ICRISAT is headquartered at Patancheru near Hyderabad, India, with two regional hubs and eight country offices in sub-Saharan Africa. ICRISAT envisions prosperous, food-secure and resilient dryland tropics. Its mission is to reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation in the dryland tropics. ICRISAT conducts research on its mandated crops of chickpea, pigeonpea, groundnut, sorghum, pearl millet and finger millet in the arid and semi-arid tropics. The Institute focuses its work on drylands and in protecting the environment. Tropical dryland areas are usually seen as resource-poor and perennially beset by shocks such as drought, thereby trapping dryland communities in poverty and hunger and making them dependent on external aid. Please visit – www.icrisat.org
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate with farmers to implement and monitor the field experiments in farmers’ fields as per the instructions from scientists.
- Precise soil and gas sampling from the farmers’ fields and transporting them for laboratory analysis
- Maintain a logbook and prepare a report for each experiment site for verification.
- Organize field days, focus group discussions, and interactions with farmers.
Required skills:
- B.Sc. in agriculture sciences and chemistry, with a preference for soil science and environmental sciences.
- Hands-on experience with laboratory equipment, soil sampling, gas sampling, water sampling, etc
- Understanding of greenhouse gas emissions and it’s monitoring methods
- Good communication skills include interaction with the farming community and disseminating the importance of good agricultural practices.
- Good documentation.
- The project activities will require interaction with farmers in Odisha state, thus candidate understanding of Odiya will be preferred.
