Market Garden Manager / Farm Operations Lead

Location : Ahmedabad, Gujarat Reports to : Ritzy (Founder) Employment type : Full-time

About the Role

We are launching a new intensive market-gardening venture supplying high-value fresh produce directly to restaurants, subscription customers, and premium retail in Ahmedabad. We're looking for someone to take operational ownership of the farm — from crop planning through to product reaching the customer — with a solid bias toward disciplined, data-driven cultivation over informal farming habits.

This is a founding operational hire. You will build the systems, not just execute someone else's.

Responsibilities : Cultivation

- Plan and execute a year-round crop calendar with succession planting to keep beds in continuous production
- Manage drip irrigation and fertigation scheduling
- Select and manage a crop mix weighted toward high-value, restaurant/premium-retail-oriented produce (heirloom vegetables, specialty greens, herbs) rather than commodity crops already well served by local mandis
- Maintain soil health through appropriate rotation and organic input management
- Supervise field labor and day-to-day farm operations

Sales & Customer Relationships





- Build and maintain relationships with restaurant buyers and/or subscription customers
- Manage order fulfillment and delivery scheduling
- Represent product quality consistently — this business's premium depends on it

Records & Reporting

- Maintain yield records, input costs, and basic P&L; data by crop
- Report weekly/monthly on production volumes, sales, and issues
- Flag input purchasing needs to founder/finance rather than independently procuring and reconciling cash (structural requirement, not a reflection of trust — applies to all roles in the group)

Requirements :

- 2+ years hands-on experience in intensive vegetable cultivation, market gardening, or high-value horticulture (diploma/degree from an agricultural university a plus, not a substitute for field experience)
- Working knowledge of drip irrigation and fertigation systems
- Comfortable with basic record-keeping (can be trained on specific tools/formats)
- Willingness to be hands-on in the field, not purely supervisory, especially in the first year
- Local Gujarati/Hindi fluency; basic English helpful for restaurant-side communication

Pay: Up to ₹80,000.00 per month

Work Location: In person

📌 Market Garden Manager / Farm Operations Lead Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat
🏢 Rajaswi Group
📍 Ahmedabad