Agri-Business, Enterprise Development and Market Linkage Course

Overview

Introduction

Agribusiness and Enterprise development is a course oriented towards imparting knowledge about different activities, economic concepts and tools related understanding agriculture as a business. The course modules: Economics of Production, Agriculture as a business, Micro-enterprise Development and Management, Financial planning, Principles of Business Management and Marketing, Entrepreneurship Development and Networking.

Duration

5 days

Who should attend?

National governments, UN partners and NGOs, Agriculture Extension (Agricultural extension officers, senior agricultural officials and policy makers) working with communities, in governments, funding agencies, Research organizations

Course content

What you will learn

Course Objective:

•         Agriculture as a business

•         Economic approaches and business strategies in agribusiness and enterprise development

•         Understand the nature, importance, and role of agribusiness firms in the domestic and the international markets in which farmers compete

•         Economic principles related to agriculture and agribusiness

•         Developing agribusiness plans