Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Languages
Hobbies and Interests
Awards
Timeline
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KWABENA ASANTE ABOAGYE

Koforidua

Summary

A highly motivated graduate with training and placement experience in agricultural production, agribusiness, and extension. I am an effective team player with strong organizational skills. A

detail-oriented Associate Buyer with dynamic relationship-building and price-negotiating skills. Highly trained professional with a passion for overseeing merchandise procurement. Exceptional record-keeping and time management talents.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Buyer Agent

Cargill Kokoo Sourcing Limited
10.2022 - Current
  • Purchasing quality cocoa beans for company.
  • Sensitising farmers on company's mode of work and registering them. Have achieved 60% rate of registered farmers against target.
  • Performing visibility checks on beans before purchase. Has resulted in purchasing quality beans always.
  • Sending reports to management team after close of business each day to help make plans to achieve continuous successes.

Farm Manager

Adjavon Farms
07.2021 - 09.2022
  • General supervision of farm and labourers.
  • Kept accurate records of medications, mortalities, eggs, vaccination dates and sales.
  • Assisted the veterinary officer during vaccination of birds and debeaking exercises. Achieved a below 1% of injury after exercise.
  • Raised beds to cultivate carrots, pepper and tomatoes at the farm garden using the poultry manure.
  • Harvested a sack full each of carrots and half sack full of tomatoes and pepper.

National Service Personnel, Plant Pathology Division (Virus Transmission Unit)

Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana
09.2019 - 08.2020
  • Recording of viral disease symptoms in cocoa seedlings and inputting data for analysis. Data was useful for every analysis that was done.
  • Inoculation of healthy cocoa beans with cocoa swollen shoot virus via mealy bugs. Achieved a 100% success after ever inoculation
  • Writing weekly reports to the unit manager to aid research work.
  • Supervision of field assistants.

Intern

Seed Production Division, COCOBOD-BUNSO
06.2017 - 08.2017
  • General nursery management
  • Planting and raising of cocoa seedlings.
  • Supervision of field assistants.

Intern Firld Extension Agent

A. M. A MOFA Directorate
06.2016 - 08.2016
  • Visited farmers and their farms to render advice in improving their farming practices.
  • Partaking in market extension and enumeration.
  • Learning some basics of veterinary at the veterinary department.

Shop Attendant

Baseline Pharmaceutical Limited
06.2014 - 08.2015
  • Served customers who purchase drugs by checking purchased drugs and packaging them.

Education

BSc. - Agriculture

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
01.2019

Science

Pope John Senior High School and Minor Seminary
01.2014

Skills

  • Good team player
  • Able to work under pressure
  • Good computer literacy skills (Typing speed, MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
  • Excellent in Public Speaking
  • Good organizational skills
  • Verbal and written communication
  • Accurate record keeping
  • Purchasing strategies

Languages

English - native language
French - read only

Hobbies and Interests

Agriculture, Leadership, Volunteering and Mentoring

Awards

  • Executive - National Service (Eastern Region & East Akim District)
  • Identified projects to train service personnel on social security and it's importance.
  • Awarded deserving district executives who performed well in their tenure of office., National Service President at CRIG
  • Refurbishment of the main administration notice board of the institute., Deputy Transport Commissioner - KNUST SRC.
  • Organized a driving school for students to enroll and learn how to drive and acquire them licence.
  • Restructured the system of issuing accreditation to student transport groups on campus., Editor-in-Chief (International Association of Students in Agriculture and Related Sciences)
  • Developed and maintained a system of writing good articles among the students of the Faculty of Agriculture.
  • Mentored some junior course mates to achieve a balanced study life on campus.

Timeline

Buyer Agent

Cargill Kokoo Sourcing Limited
10.2022 - Current

Farm Manager

Adjavon Farms
07.2021 - 09.2022

National Service Personnel, Plant Pathology Division (Virus Transmission Unit)

Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana
09.2019 - 08.2020

Intern

Seed Production Division, COCOBOD-BUNSO
06.2017 - 08.2017

Intern Firld Extension Agent

A. M. A MOFA Directorate
06.2016 - 08.2016

Shop Attendant

Baseline Pharmaceutical Limited
06.2014 - 08.2015

Science

Pope John Senior High School and Minor Seminary

BSc. - Agriculture

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
KWABENA ASANTE ABOAGYE