Entrepreneurship
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Stages for effective
Entrepreneurial Development Building entrepreneurship skills 75 By moving through these stages from awareness to empowerment, the farmer is given the opportunity to experience personal growth and to develop a more entrepreneurial approach to farming. It is a reflective learning process. The degree of empowerment that actually takes place is in direct proportion to the commitment the farmer has to learn through a process of planning, action and reflection as applied to identifying and exploiting opportunities for his farm. A key function of the extension worker is to foster the farmer’s commitment to the learning process. Within this framework for learning, entrepreneurship development has two further contexts: training for people who want to start a business and training for those who are already running them. In farming both situations occur. Many who are already farmers want to make changes to their farming systems by introducing high value enterprises directed to the market. There are also many newcomers (young and old, male and female) entering farming who are starting with their first farming enterprise. Extension workers will find these stages useful milestones for evaluating the progress of the farmers they are helping. They emphasise the progressive nature of learning and build upon one another, resulting in the empowerment of the farmer-entrepreneur. Training for entrepreneurship should not be confused with technical training or even with farm management training. While a good farmer-entrepreneur will also be a good producer and a good farm manager, training in entrepreneurship focuses on other skills, knowledge and behaviour. Technical and farm management topics may be included in entrepreneurship development but entrepreneurship courses focus on personal development. Entrepreneurship development can take place at each stage of the development of the farm business – during planning, start-up, survival and growth. Training programmes should be designed in a way that they are related to the competency needs of farmers as they occur. Download 1,19 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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