Precision Agriculture Department Manager (m/f), Darbhanga in Darbhanga, Bihar

Your tasks:
- Program farm equipment, such as variable-rate planting equipment or pesticide sprayers, based on input from crop scouting and analysis of field condition variability
- Develop soil sampling grids or identify sampling sites, using geospatial technology, for soil testing on characteristics such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium content, pH, and micronutrients
- Compile and analyze geospatial data to determine agricultural implications of factors such as soil quality, terrain, field productivity, fertilizers, and weather conditions
- Install, calibrate, or maintain sensors, mechanical controls, GPS-based vehicle guidance systems, or computer settings
- Document and maintain records of precision agriculture information
- Advise farmers on upgrading Global Positioning System (GPS) equipment to take advantage of newly installed advanced satellite technology
- Participate inefforts to advance precision agriculture technology, such as developing advanced weed identification or automated spot spraying systems
- Analyze remote sensing imagery to identify relationships between soil quality, crop canopy densities, light reflectance, and weather history
Your skills:
- Talking to others to convey information effectively
- Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures
- Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents
- Writing computer programs for various purposes
- Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs
- Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making
- Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one
- Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences
- Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job