Successful farm
businesses face
challenges from
competing farmers
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Entrepreneurship in farming
However, a thriving business will still face
challenges and threats. There might be many competing
farmers selling in the same market. Other farmers may
have newer, more efficient methods of production and
processing that give them an advantage. The farmer
has to be entrepreneurial in adapting to these threats;
innovating and developing strategies to ensure the farm
business remains profitable and viable.
Inevitably, the farmer will need to decide about the
future of his thriving business. Will the business outlive
the farmer? Will he sell the business or hand it over to
another family member? Should he close the business
down?
Understanding these stages helps extension
workers provide farmer-entrepreneurs with appropriate
support, guidance and advice. It is important to
remember that, in most cases, farmers are not starting
with a completely new farm. They have working farms
that already have one or two enterprises. Aspects of their
farms may already be in the post-survival stages -- some
even in the maturity stage. Each new enterprise that is
introduced, however, will follow these stages.
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