Pig Extension Officer

Job Purpose

The Pig Extension Officer will secure a reliable, cost efficient and quality compliant supply of pigs by managing farmers relationships and optimizing farm productivity through implementing performance improvement programs across our suppliers.

Key Responsibilities

Farmer performance management

Track farmer KPIs – Born alive, mortality rates, Average Daily Gains, age to slaughter, slaughter weights compliant, disease challenges, drug residues.

Segment farmers into top, medium and poor performing and implement targeted interventions.

Conduct regular farm audits, performance farm reviews and share reports.

Data analytics and reporting – use the data to:

Build a farmer performance dashboard.

Share pig projections (minimum 6 months).

Predict supply gaps.

Identify productivity bottlenecks.

Provide weekly and monthly reports on supply vs plan.

Monitor cost trends.

Track and report farmer performance metrics.

Farmer development and extension services

Design and roll out capacity building on nutrition and feed optimization, biosecurity protocols, breeding and genetics improvement, housing and animal welfare standards.

Provide technical farmer advisory.

Conduct farmhand capacity building programs.

Contract farming and relationship management

Manage contract farmers.

Build long term partnerships with suppliers.

Resolve farmer grievances and ensure high farmer engagement levels.

Compliance and sustainability