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Crop Disease & Pest Diagnostician

🏢 Company: SelfCrops
📍 Location: Tirupati
💼 Type: Full-time
🎯 Experience: 2–5 years
🏷 Department: Agriculture Science
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About the Role

SelfCrops provides real-time crop disease and pest advisory to farmers. We need a Crop Disease & Pest Diagnostician to identify, diagnose, and recommend solutions for crop health issues reported by our farmer network.

Key Responsibilities:
• Diagnose crop diseases and pest infestations from field photos, samples, and description reports
• Develop and maintain a digital crop disease library for AI-assisted diagnosis
• Provide timely, actionable advisory to farmers via the platform
• Conduct field validation visits for complex or repeated crop health issues
• Collaborate with the data science team to train AI disease detection models
• Prepare pest and disease alert bulletins for farmer communication

Requirements

• M.Sc Plant Pathology, Entomology, or Agriculture with specialisation in crop protection
• 2–5 years field experience in crop disease diagnosis and IPM
• Strong knowledge of major crops in Andhra Pradesh — paddy, groundnut, chilli, tomato
• Experience with microscopy, disease identification keys, and field diagnostic kits
• Ability to write clear advisory content in Telugu and English

Required Skills