Requirements for a Prosperous Agribusiness

As a prospective agripreneur irrespective of your current position, probably as a student in any of the various branches of agriculture, or as a trainee in field. or better still intending farmers with little or no knowledge about agriculture, here are some tips as requirements to note which might come handy in your business journey.

For students and Trainees

It is duely advisable to jobcreate, bootstrap, start as soon as possible. Be resourseful and skillful in the field in view, leverage, create the best possibly required network, attend relevant seminars all with the sole purpose of equiping yourself for the journey ahead and most importantly, Uplink with experts in that field to aid your productivity.

For Intending Farmers

You are highly welcomed to the field of agriculture, really not going to be that easy but with proper preparation, consistency and adamant practice, It could be a less risky. the very first step is to consult about the business to get equiped with the required guidance and continous mentoring on your prospective agribusiness.

Generally, to be a successful agripreneur, you should be focused on developing and promoting better farming practices, be patient, forbearing, a bigdreamer but should be ready to start small and learn along the growth curve if less experienced, economically techy business-oriented. A top-notch agriculturist should be self-motivated, detail-oriented, and analytical with excellent listening, communication, and problem-solving skills.

All these amongst these listed tools would help a great deal:

• Strategic planning
• Feasibility studies
• Market outlets survey
• Business Planning, structuring, funding and implementation
• Baseline impact assessment
• Value chain
• Advisory support on Farm location and set-up
• Soil properties testing
• Farm Management
• Performance evaluation
• Recruitment
• Research and training
• Procurement and supply of farm inputs.

Feel free to contact us if you need help with any of these and for more clarification, use the comment section. Thanks and have a pleasant and less risky run.