Field Facilitators Verified listing

Duties and Responsibilities
• Prior to the first growing season conduct a number of awareness raising meetings on the issues of sustainability in the cotton sector (tailored to the local situation and the
production systems) and the requirements of the MCI project for farmers to take an
informed decision on whether they want to participate as MCI farmer or not.
• Categorize farmers into smallholders or medium farms and group farmers into Groups for training sessions.
• Provide training to farmers on the requirement of the MCI project during the cotton
growing season and post harvest practices as well.
• Ensure that farmers can maintain a Farmer Field Book and learn from it.
• Assess the level of adoption/progress at Farm level.
• Support communication between project officer and farmers.
• Facilitate the verification process during the assessment.
• Capacity building of farmers and farm workers (male & females) as per criteria of MCI
protocols.
• Support Project Officer in development of training material for field staff, farmers and
farm workers (male & females) and also support in development of annual training plan
for farmers and farm families.
• Capacity building of farmers focusing set protocols of clean picking, and desired post-harvest care from farm to gin gate.
• Facilitate the collection of data from smallholders and medium farms.
• Develop and train groups of women workers in the project area.
• Introduction and promotion of supporting picking tools / items to ensure quality cotton picking.
• Baseline survey to identify worker families having complete/partial dependency on cotton crop.
• Establishment of potential home-based small enterprises for women workers such as
establishment of micro-nurseries, establishment of kitchen gardening plots, establishment of poultry units, etc.

• At least BA / B.Sc or intermediate, Agriculture diploma holder will be preferred
• At least 02 years of working experience in the rural area especially with cotton farming
families.