City Greens
Website:
citygreens.ai
Job details:
Job Description
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Please do not apply if you are looking for remote / WFH, or are not willing to be deputed at client sites across India for extended periods (6–12 months or longer).
Visiting Agronomist
Job Description
City Greens is a fast-growing AgriTech startup building automation and AI-driven solutions for Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA). We work with modern farms, growers, and institutions to help them improve productivity, efficiency, and sustainability through technology.
We are looking for a Visiting Agronomist to be the on-ground technical backbone of our client farms. You will be on the
CityGreens payroll and deputed at a client site, owning crop performance day to day, backed by our senior agronomy team.
This is a career-building, pan-India role. Each deputation typically runs
6 to 12 months or longer, and over the next 2–5 years you will gain exposure to different technologies, crops, and client sites across the country.
You will begin with a
4 to 8 week training program at our AgriTech facility in Ahmedabad, on CityGreens' crops, systems, and protocols, before your first deputation.
As a Visiting Agronomist, You Will:
- Look after crop health and agronomy day to day at your deputed client farm
- Conduct crop health assessments, troubleshooting, and intervention planning
- Execute the crop plan and agronomy protocols set by the CityGreens senior team, and escalate technical decisions to them
- Train and upskill client farm teams on CEA crop management best practices
- Feed field learnings back into CityGreens' internal agronomy and tech systems
- Work with farm management software, IoT/sensor data, and yield/input tracking
Requirements
- Minimum 1 year of hands-on agronomy experience in the field
- Working knowledge of one or more of: protected cultivation (polyhouse/greenhouse), hydroponics or aeroponics, high-value horticulture
- Diagnostic ability — identifying and resolving crop health, nutrition, and environmental issues in controlled-environment settings
- Comfortable working with data — farm management software, IoT/sensor outputs, yield and input tracking
- Willingness to be deputed and relocate to client sites across India for extended periods (6–12 months or longer) — non-negotiable
- Willing to attend the initial 4–8 week training in Ahmedabad
Benefits
- Salary by experience band:
- 1 year+ : ₹30,000 – ₹35,000/month
- 2 years+ : ₹35,000 – ₹40,000/month
- 3 years+ : ₹40,000 – ₹50,000/month
- 4 years+ : ₹50,000 – ₹60,000/month
- 5 years+ : ₹60,000+/month
- PF
- Health Insurance coverage
- Company-provided accommodation at the deputed client site
- Structured training and continuous support from CityGreens' senior agronomy team
- Pan-India exposure to India's most innovative CEA farms, across diverse geographies, crop systems, and technologies
- A high-impact role in a fast-growing AgriTech team
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