Promoting Entrepreneurship and Agribusiness Development

Event: Promoting Entrepreneurship and Agribusiness Development

Venue: Nairobi, Kenya

Event Date: 6th - 10th November 2017.

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INTRODUCTION

Entrepreneurship and Agribusiness Development are the best hope for reviving weak world economies. Entrepreneurs cannot do it alone; they need an enabling environment in which their business can grow. This course is designed to give insights into the basic requirements for increasing the level of entrepreneurship in communities at local and national levels.

In order to build the capacity of Development professionals who are actively engaged in the Agriculture and food security activities in governmental and non-governmental organizations to support efforts in improving survival rates of Agribusinesses that currently have a high rate of failure, (I.e. 70 to 80 per cent of new businesses end their operations in their first year. And of those that survive, only half remain in business after five years), this one week course will provide hands-on training in Entrepreneurship and Agribusiness Development and the application of Knowledge to decision making in Entrepreneurship and Agribusiness Development planning and Management.

The workshop offers intensive training that will enable the learner to know how to address these challenges. It focuses on the things entrepreneurs care most about, and that ultimately affect their bottom line: How to raise money, make money, save money and help others to do so.

DURATION

5 days

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This course is intended for audiences working in governments, funding agencies, and research and non-government organizations for Emergency response and other Development programmes. It is also suitable for business owners and representatives from organizations that support entrepreneurship and/or seek to enable an environment in which businesses can flourish

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of the course, participants will:

• Understand the basic concepts of Entrepreneurship and Agriculture Development
• Learn the basic requirements for business operations
• Know the causes of many business failures
• Learn how to overcome pitfalls in businesses

TOPICS TO BE COVERED

• Definition of Entrepreneurship
• Definition of Agribusiness Development
• Key concepts in Entrepreneurship and Agribusiness
• Developing one’s own Agri-business enterprise
• Risk taking i.e. working in uncertainty to achieve a goal.
• Innovation
• Persistency and resilience
• Determination in patience
• Competitiveness
• Taking personal responsibility
• Converting situations into opportunity.
• Insights into unique entrepreneurs/entrepreneurship:

WHAT

• Information Needed
• Prospects and scope of a particular industry or business
• Technical details
• Quantum of investment etc.
• Information about different fields about the particular trade
• Purpose of being the business
• Responsibilities towards customers, employees, society etc.
• For marketing of your product be aware of strength and weakness of your product.
• Factors offering market demand
• Cost and model of distribution etc.
• Manufacturing process
• Plant and machinery
• Availability of new materials
• Production costs’
• Manpower
• Fund requirement of working capital
• Assessment of profitability and repayment of term loan.

HOW

• Implementation plan
• Final selection of a product
• Prepare project report

Registration :

• Apply to Financial Institutions
• Provisional Registration
• Obtain Licenses
• Apply for shed, Land and Power etc.
• Arrange your capital
• Plant Layout
• Construct shed
• Obtain utilities
• Order for raw materials supply etc.
• Recruitment and training of manpower
• Arrangements of sales network
• Train run/sales promotion technique
• Introduction of product
• Commercial production return.
• Challenges faced by new Entrepreneurs
• How to overcome hurdles and pitfalls faced by new business starters
• Concept of an enabling business environment
• How to enhance a fertile business climate
• Entrepreneurial life cycle
• Entrepreneurship and the economy

How to participate

• Tailor Make A Course
• Register Individual  
• Register Group
• Become One of Our Partners.
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
• Previous Clients                     

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Others Details

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