Skills

  • Agriculture
  • English
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Experience

Evans Chizula

Education
  • Agriculture

Evans Chizula

Work experience
  • Establishing on-station and on-farm bean trials
  • Managing regional breeding nurseries (winter and summer)
  • Collecting data from on-station and on-farm trials
  • Isolating and culturing bean disease pathogens
  • Conducting field and screen house disease inoculation
  • Conducting common bean crosses
  • Handling seed from field and screen house trials
  • Conduct on-farm field days for participatory variety/technology selection with farmers
  • Training extension staff and farmers on common bean production practices
  • Supervision and day-to-day assignments of work to labourer’s and monitoring.
  • Linking the fieldwork between CIAT and the National Program
  • Preparation of regional trials by randomization, seed packing, and designing field books
  • Selection of the best-performing bean lines in the field for advancement based on good agronomic characteristics and disease resistance
  • Preparation of payrolls for wages and assisting in payment.
  • The use of electronic data collection tools and data management
  • Manage seed store of receiving and dispatching seed to partner’s
  • Knowledge of data analysis using Gen start

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