Federal Ministry Of Agriculture, FMA recruitment 2017 application form and registration process is out online.
Based on the progressive increase in workload of Staff and the need to improve on Programme implementation, part of the credit will be applied to engage the services of an additional officer to enhance technical assistance at the state level.
Applications are hereby invited from suitably and qualified candidates for the positions listed below:

1. Job Title: Market Development Officer

Location:
Taraba, Ogun, Niger, Ebonyi, Benue, Anambra

Objectives:
The primary goal of VCDP is to reduce poverty and sustainably, enhance accelerated economic growth, whilst the specific programme development objective (PDO) is to increase the incomes and enhance food security for 45,000 rural poor households engaged in the production, processing and marketing of rice and cassava in the targeted LGAs of the targeted States are enhanced on a sustainable basis.

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Duties and Responsibilities:
Assist the National Market Development Coordinator to facilitate market access for the benefiting farmers and farmer organizations.
Directly handle aspect of market information system (MIS), and ensure private sector participation is driving the process.
Liaise with the National Market Development Coordinator to handle promotional activities aimed at increasing market access for rural farmers, including identification of off-takers, linking farmers to off-takers, facilitating farmers engagement with the private sector, linking organization market fares, working with communication unit to produce knowledge products, liaising with relevant states, private sector and persons to deepen on the commodity alliance forum, facilitate replication of CAF in other non-VCDP states through policy dialogue and partnership engagement.
Liaise with National Market Development Coordinator to ensure adoption of the use of standard weight and measure by producers.
Participation in the price determination committee meetings to ensure compliance with the instrument of engagement;Capacity building for Agricultural Extension Officers and enumerators on Market Information Service(MIS);Liaise with the institutions development team develop out-growers scheme or contract arrangement that will facilitate market access by producers. Improve the farmers’ skill to be able to negotiate prices and do business with the private sector.Liaise with the processing team and provide capacity building ............

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