Livestock Production Officer II at Taita Taveta County

Ref No. CPSB/TTC/054/2022

Duties and responsibilities 

• An officer at this level will work under the guidance and supervision of a Senior officer. Specific 
• duties and responsibilities will be:
• Preparing livestock technical information. 
• Providing technical advice in animal production, livestock marketing, range management, apiculture and ranching. 
• Promoting economic livestock farming.
• Participating in organizing extension activities which include field days, agricultural shows, field demonstrations, farmer field schools and farm visits.
• Participating in collaborative research activities.
• Disseminating livestock production technologies such as construction of livestock housing and structures, milk production, pasture and fodder production and conservation, farm planning, gross margins analysis, on-farm feed formulation.
• Implementing livestock production programmes/projects in such areas as dairy cattle farming, beef cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, poultry, rabbits, camels, donkeys breeding rogrammes, fodder production and conservation, value addition to livestock products, apiculture, emerging livestock and other animal husbandry interventions. 
• Capturing, maintaining and storing livestock data.

Requirements for Appointment 

• Be a Kenyan Citizen; 
• Bachelor degree in any of the following fields: - Animal Science, Animal Production, Agriculture, Range management, Natural Resource Management, L, Dairy or Agricultural Education and Extension from a recognized Institution;
• Specialization in Dairy Technology and Apiculture will be an added advantage; and,
• Certificate in computer applications