Basic Knowledge In Agriculture #19

A warm greetings to everyone in this Steem-Agro community. I hope you're all doing great. Today I'm here for this contest on Agriculture knowledge powered by @hive-118902.

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What do you understand by Agricultural Entrepreneurship?

To start a farm business is venturing into a rewarding business that gives the opportunity to closely work with nature, contribute to local economy and produced healthy foods. Agricultural enterprise gives an interesting innovative farming techniques and sustainable practices.

Being passionate about businesses and have the willingness to solve food problem is well maximizing profit is who an agricultural entrepreneur is. They take calculated risk to get the best harvest and also may engaging agro processing (raw agricultural products are transformed to valued goods).

Agricultural entrepreneurship refers to the benefits from the combination of entrepreneurship and agriculture which leads to the conversion of farms into agric business. This is related to the production and marketing of agricultural input and products. Agriculture entrepreneurship helps the market and produce various products and also increase the farmers income.

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Types of Agricultural Entrepreneurship:

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• Farm level producers: here, an enterprise is obtained to augment production by making use of high level of technology.

• Input producers: here, home entrepreneurs produces significant contribution for booming enterprises.

• Post production process: to process and market farm produce, skilled persons and investments are used for well organized management.

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Discuss on the activities of an Agricultural Entrepreneur.

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Farming, business management and marketing are activities and agricultural entrepreneur engages in.

Farming: these are the activities involved in farming;

• Land preparation for crops planting.

• Based on market demand, crops are planted.

• Livestock such as poultry others are raised.

• To reduce farm risk and increase production, sustainable farming practices are implemented.

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Business Management: activities here involves account management, logistic functions, production functions, forecasting changes in businesses and allocating duties to employees.

Marketing and securing resources: activities like identifying opportunities to maximize profit, securing seeds, equipments , livestock and infrastructure, and innovating market channels to meet market demands are done here.

I invite @josepha, @zory23 and @meraindia to join this contest.