Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Agriculture and Agribusiness

These are the 24 terms our scorer checks a Agriculture and Agribusiness resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • agriculture
  • agronomy
  • crop
  • soil
  • irrigation
  • seed
  • fertiliser
  • pesticide
  • yield per acre
  • farmer
  • fpo
  • extension services
  • horticulture
  • dairy
  • poultry
  • animal husbandry
  • agri input
  • field trial
  • harvest
  • post harvest
  • cold chain
  • mandi
  • sustainable farming
  • farm mechanisation

The eight questions for Agriculture and Agribusiness

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.How many farmers, acres or villages do you cover?
  2. 2.What yield, income or productivity improvement did you drive, and by how much?
  3. 3.How much produce, input volume or sales value do you handle in a season?
  4. 4.How many field trials, demonstrations or training sessions do you run in a year?
  5. 5.Which crops, livestock or product categories do you specialise in?
  6. 6.How many FPOs, dealers, distributors or retailers are in your network?
  7. 7.How many field officers, extension workers or team members report to you?
  8. 8.Which sustainable, organic or precision farming practices have you implemented?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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