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Excellent learning curve

AFGRI is a leading agricultural services company with a core focus on grain commodities and a vision of driving food security across Africa. They provide services across the entire grain production and storage cycle, offering financial support and solutions as well as inputs and hi-tech equipment through the John Deere brand supported by a large retail footprint. And they just recently acquire the south African bank of Athens It is interesting to work for a diversified company like AFGRI. I enjoy supporting business because every day I learn new things. My core module is FICO but I am busy learning BCA and CML as well. For system enhancements, we work closely with developers and the advantage is that we have inhouse ABAP developers

Pros: diversified company , you learn a lot
Cons: Finance,internal auditors and IT treated as consultans not as part of the overall business

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Great Career growth

Excellent support on formal trainings. Diverse cultures, which helps in improving ones skill of understanding different people and working well with them. There are personal development programs and employees are treated as the most important asset of the business.

Pros: Invest in employees through training
Cons: Too much driving

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Excellent learning curve

I am a Junior Programmer with AFGRI Operations and have a diploma in ICT and 1 year of experience working in large firms. I am managing and maintaining existing and new programs, in a department of 3. My positive attitude and detail-oriented spirit help ensure that at the end all the programs are up and running, most importantly the clients are happy and without any inaccuracies or fire drills. Looking for a leadership role in my next position. I also have skill for Linux, PLSQL, MYSQL, Systems Analysis and Database. I want to obtain professional experience, ethics, people’s skills and teamwork in Office support field while contributing my knowledge for the growth of the company and to continuously upgrade my skills/expertise.

Pros: Great opportunity for promotion
Cons: standard working hour, eight hours a day

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New begginings and challenges

I am currently working as a grain grader at AFGRI, its my 4th year now working for this company. My daily dities includes weighing of truckes, reading infomation of every single truck on the system, grading of maize, soja or any other product we are recieving. My daily duties includes capturing of leaves for employees on SAP, creating purchase orders on SAP, daily, weekly and monthly reports. Stock control using SAP. When im out of the office i do site work, operating the silo (transfering maize or any other product from hopper to bin visa vesa), physical stock control, monitoring of employees, ensuring that house keeping is done. Checking if workers work according to safety regulation.

Pros: Different kind of activities everyday
Cons: Too much pressure from many different people

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Enthusiastic person who takes a pro-active approach to all tasks and responsibilities.

My personal strengths include sensitivity to others and I am good at building working relations with people from all cultural and sociology-economic backgrounds. I am keen on learning new skills and techniques as I am aware that the corporate environment is constantly shifting and developing. I am also eager to meet challenges and quickly to assimilate new conceptually to assimilate Mu e new concepts.

Pros: Great oppotunity for growth
Cons: Long working hours

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Challenging industry

Afgri was a great company whereby you get oppportunity to learn more about different equipment and sources. Working for animal feed everyday there is a challange that comes with the raw material from the farm which sometimes are not dry enough to pass through equipment.

Pros: Great challenging field
Cons: Lack of safety

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One gets to learn more about plants and animals offsprings and harvesting.

Busy industry where you learn something new every day. You interact directly with the owners of the company and most of the people who workBusy industry where you learn something new every day. You interact directly with the owners of the company and most of the people who work in the business are very helpful and hard working. One gets to learn more about plants and animals offsprings and harvesting. in Busy industry where you learn something new every day. You interact directly with the owners of the company and most of the people who work in the business are very helpful and hard working. One gets to learn more about plants and animals offsprings and harvesting. the business are very helpful and hard working. One gets to learn more about plants and animals offsprings and harvesting.

Pros: Having a job in the pandemic
Cons: Doing all the driving alone

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A good opportunity for my career growth

there is so much that i have learnt, from where i have started as an Assistant Account Executive, i love the people that i work with and they make it so easy for me to be in the office daily. i now enjoy my job as an Ass Accountant, this is what i have studied for and love so much. this is where i show my skills and talent in the accounting field.

Pros: career growth
Cons: Working under pressure

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Learning curve

Great company, there are bonus don't have the best working hours, long working hours with low minimum wage and low bonuses. Overtime are not consensual

Pros: Great bonus
Cons: Long working hours

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Practical knowledge is great experience

Being in the field of Agriculture means being outdoors mostly. It’s fulfilling to grow crops successfully and watch them yield a great harvest after all the work put in. The best thing in this line of work is that, you get better by practical experience with time when you’re passionate about the work. It’s not easy, because it can be challenging, but learn more and pay close attention so you can apply your knowledge to be successful. Engaging with the field workers also creates an environment where they devote themselves and they too can learn from you. about the work. It’s not easy, because it can be challenging, but learn more and pay close attention so you can apply your knowledge to be successful. Engaging with the field workers also creates an environment where they devote themselves and they too can learn from you.

Pros: Good opportunity to expand my knowledge in the Agricultural world
Cons: It’s hard work, it’s not very easy

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