Entrepreneurship
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partnerships must reflect carefully on the most effective design for these bodies and the surest way to initiate and sustain them and how to encourage the farmers to champion the initiatives – and how to support their evaluation of partnerships in terms of the value they will add to their farm businesses. Networking encourages farmers to work together to develop a product value chain Extension support for developing entrepreneurial capacity 117 The challenge is to create an entrepreneurial culture that benefits all stakeholders and allows them to pursue their own goals The farmer- entrepreneur is informal and relies on intuition, trust and judgment rather than hard facts CREaTINg a CUlTURE of ENTREPRENEURSHIP Economic growth happens when a society embraces and encourages entrepreneurial behaviour; when it values achievement and when there are a lot of people who are ‘competent, resourceful and enterprising’. A culture of entrepreneurship can be encouraged by working with farmers and the stakeholders with whom they interact. Farmers and stakeholders have their own way of doing things; they have their own culture. A culture of entrepreneurship will evolve when it is mutually beneficial for all; allowing everyone to pursue their own goals. Extension workers must not try to define the culture according to their values and goals. They should guide farmers while avoiding trying to make farmers conform to their way of working. While extension workers often work in an environment that is formal and orderly with plans and indicators of performance and with a focus on specific functions and control, farmer-entrepreneurs often operate in informal and untidy environments, relying on intuition, trust and judgment rather than hard facts. Farmers are concerned with issues of personal freedom in decision-making with a focus on the market, the client and profits. While there is value in creating greater order, structure and formality as the farm business grows, the farm business should not lose its edge by being more concerned with order than growing the business as a whole. The entrepreneurial farmer needs to retain his farm business’s core energy, flexibility and responsiveness that define its entrepreneurial spirit. Adopting a bureaucratic culture will kill this spirit. 118 Entrepreneurship in farming To achieve balance between order and untidiness, formality and informality, extension workers need to value and understand the qualities that provide the energy needed to maintain the entrepreneurial nature of farm businesses. Extension workers must also understand that these qualities cannot be created by imposing rules. They are principles demonstrated through doing; where, for example, trustworthiness is shown through delivering crops on time as promised. The key role-players need to be encouraged to embrace the ‘way of life’ of an entrepreneur and to adopt its ‘value system’. The ‘way of life’ must be underpinned, not by rules and regulations, but by a ‘code of conduct’ grounded in increasing mutual trust. Support to entrepreneurial ventures must move far beyond helping businesses obtain resources – to holistic development. Support must foster an understanding that resources are only one of the factors that lead to successful entrepreneurial businesses. The role-players surrounding the farmer- entrepreneur need to embrace the entrepreneurial ‘way of life’ of the farmer, including his holistic approach to farm management, the less formal approach to planning and the less structured organisation of the business. Training based on ‘learning by doing’, must be matched with facilitating access to markets, finance and advice – the things that make it possible to successfully run farm businesses as entrepreneurial businesses. Training without access will not cultivate entrepreneurship. Above all is the need to respect the independence of the farmer-entrepreneurs, particularly their approach to decision-making. Agencies hoping to foster entrepreneurial culture must be prepared to decentralise their own decision-making so that the farmer-entrepreneur is not trapped by well-intentioned but constraining bureaucratic, centralised decision-making. In short, support agencies should also behave like entrepreneurs. Key role-players need to embrace the entrepreneurial ‘way of life’ Above all is the need to respect the independence of the farmer-entrepreneur, Download 1.19 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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