Agriculture Department
The Agriculture Department in the District :
- Participate in the provision of extension services in the areas of natural resources management, and rural infrastructural and small scale irrigation in the district
- Assist in the formulation and implementation of agricultural policy for the district assembly within the framework of national policies
- Submit the report on the implementation of policies and programmes to the district assembly
- Advise the district assembly on matters related to agricultural development in the district
- Promote extension services to farmers
- Assist and participate in on-farm adaptive research
- Lead the collection of data for analysis on cost-effective farming enterprises
- Participate in the education and enforcement of legislation on fisheries
- Promote the formation of viable fishermen associations and assist in fish farming
- Promote soil and water conservation measures by the appropriate agricultural technology
- Disseminate and adopt improved soil and water conservation methods
- Promote agroforestry development to reduce the incidence of bush fires
- Promote an efficient and integrated water management
- Assist and facilitate sustained pasture and forage production and act as out-grower to farmers
- Assist development of animal health services infrastructure
- Facilitate the development, operation and maintenance of livestock water supplies
- Assist in developing forage production, ranges and farmlands
- Encourage improvement in livestock breeds
- Assist in developing early warning systems on animal diseases
- Facilitate and encourage vaccination and immunization of livestock and control of animal diseases
- Advise and encourage crop development through nursery propagation
- Assist in the development, rehabilitation and maintenance of small scale irrigation schemes
- Facilitate the assessment of the economic, financial and environmental viability of providing canals
- Assist the construction, rehabilitation and maintenance of fish landing sites
- Promote agro-processing and storage
- Facilitate the development of programmes and the establishment of close linkage between the various sub-sectors in the district
- Supervise the agricultural extension staff in the field
- Co-ordinate the systematic and regular training of frontline staff
- Monitor and evaluate projects
- Promote investment in agriculture by assisting to identify and prepare pre-feasibility reports
- Develop proposal writing capacity at the district level
- Facilitate capacity building at the district level through training, workshops and other related activities
- Assist to supervise projects planned, designed and implement centrally.
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