Friday, February 13, 2015.
Training is very good, but, Agriculture is one area of business that doesn't require too much professional training.
USAID works with many young local farmers: amongst them are graduates and Illiterates. And the trainings are very simple, that just any willing person can learn.
Most of the graduates among them took farming as a last option as a result of the unemployment problem in the country: little did they know that Agriculture is already solving the world's energy and health problems etc.
Today, most of the people who are taking up farming as an option are professionals in many fields and big time entrepreneurs.
Agric Business Ideas
We can't exhaust the Ideas in agriculture in Just a few short articles. There are too many of them even online.
1. Sales and Leasing of farm Equipment:
Mechanised agriculture requires equipment like tractors etc. That's a very lucrative business in agriculture. And the interesting thing is; like in other businesses, you don't have to own the equipments, you can simply be the third party.
2. Processing of farm Products:
That's one area where there are massive opportunities. Just like our challenge with refineries, we have very few standard processing industries in the country. Processing of cassava into flour and chemicals, processing of grains like maize, and processing of fruits into Juice etc.
A young graduate in a village in Ondo state gave me his product called #Cassavita, a locally processed cassava product into flour, known as 'fufu' in the Nigerian Yoruba Language.
After I eat it, I wanted to go back to the village to get some more. Today, he supplies to shops in the City.
He has done well for himself and he's now an entrepreneur. You can do it too.
Action Exercise: Do a research today on the Agric business you would love to do and start taking steps.
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