Background

The market-oriented agriculture programme in the North-West of Ghana (MOAP-NW) is part of the EU Ghana Agriculture Programme (EU-GAP) and is embedded in the GIZ “Sustainable Employment through Agribusiness (AgriBiz) Programme”.

It is implemented in 14 districts of the Upper West, Savannah & North-East regions, in close collaboration with the regional and district departments of Agriculture, MOAP-NW supports 7 value chains, among them being groundnut and soya.

MOAP-NW’s objective is to improve the quality of agricultural produce and to strengthen the competitiveness of value chains.

General Scope

The NLTE Agronomist (Legumes) will be part of the technical team based in Wa. Working closely with the NLTE Agronomist (Cereals). (S)he will be working on all activities that impact on legume production, aggregation, processing and marketing. There will be close interaction with other components of the EU-GAP

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