AGRIBUSINESS: SECRETS YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT FARMING
1. Farming is a business.
Farming could be a profitable business in AFRICA, if you understand it to be a “business”. The first problem we have about encouraging Africans to embrace farming is that, most people see agriculture as a very dirty thing. How did we arrive at this mindset?
Because our forefathers were subsistence farmer. They were poor and dirty. This has made us to have a wrong conclusion about the whole concept of farming.
The good news is, farming can be a source of wealth for you. There are now many commercial farmers who are wealthy.
2. Farm produce will always be of high demand.
Business world is unstable. A product that rains today may be nothing tomorrow, but farm produce is different. People must continue eating three times each day, and since we only have certain limited numbers of food, we have to eat the same foods week after week.
If you`re like me who like banana and orange, you will not resist banana or orange because you ate them yesterday. People who love water melon, carrot, beans, rice, Orn., potatoes, cassava products, etc. will not say, “I bought this last week, so I won`t buy again”.
Most of us eat fish or meat every day, so meat price will surely keep on increasing. Fish must continue selling. Poultry birds, chicken, turkey, etc. will always have market demand. If you understand this fact, you`ll be encouraged to go into farming business
3. Africa's population is increasing at alarming rate.
What does this has to do with agriculture in Africa? Well, the more population there is in a particular environment, the vibrant the agribusiness will be. So people will not for go eating? People can be poor and not buy clothes. They can be poor and not buy cars. Yet will have to buy food, fish, and meat. This understanding is enough to encourage you to go into agricultural business.
4. Governments are now aware of the importance of agriculture.
Yes, they may not be granting enough loan as expected. They may not be sensitizing youths as expected, but they are reducing the saturation of the market by importers. Believe me, as this trend is going, very soon, you can expect more and more government`s policy to favour agricultural businesses in Africa. The reason is because governments are now seeing that agribusiness is one of the ways by which we can reduce the rate of the unemployment in our country and to do this, we must restrict importation of the likes of chicken, fish, cassava products etc.
5. Most people are yet to discover the great potential in agribusiness.
School has deceived us to believe in “good job” and that deception is so deadly that even when it`s so apparent that good job is no more, our universities are still brainwashing our youths to love job. If you go ahead and start your little farm now, you will grow and become a successful farmer before most people wake up from their ignorance.The most profitable marketing strategy is to get to the market when the competition is little. That time is now.Agriculture business AFRICA is a gold yet to be mined. Don`t be afraid of starting small.
