Entrepreneurship
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An entrepreneurial
farmer has the imagination and determination to build the farm business and produce for the market It is the characteristics shown in Figure 6 that enables entrepreneurial farmers to seek-out business opportunities, conceptualise and initiate new business ideas, gather the physical, financial, and human resources needed to start the business, set goals and guide the farm and all it resources to accomplish those goals. Not all farmer-entrepreneurs have all of these traits to the same degree. But they will have all of them to some degree. Without their core values of trustworthiness and honesty, their problem-solving nature, their flexibility, their drive, the sense competition and their confidence, they would not really be entrepreneurs. In order for good farm managers to become truly entrepreneurial they will need to develop these characteristics. 52 Entrepreneurship in farming make their farms more profitable. They may have to work very closely with extension workers and other sources of information to make sure that information is presented in a way that they can understand. A successful entrepreneurial farmer takes command of his or her own learning. Farmers obtain knowledge in a number of ways. They learn through experience and observation and from written, verbal or visual information. Some of their knowledge has been handed down from their parents and grandparents. Many farmers also obtain their knowledge from listening to and learning from other farmers, observing how things are done and then practicing it themselves. Extension workers are another source of knowledge. Whatever source they use, farmers, like most people, learn best through experience, by doing. Information and its communication is an important aspect of knowledge creation and accumulation. The problem is that in many countries information is not widely available and information systems are poorly developed. Where information is available, farmers find it hard to use. For example, market prices are often expressed as average prices for a region or nationally and may be very different from local prices. Farmers need knowledge in each of the key areas of farm management: planning, implementing and controlling. They need information about their direct functions - primary production, harvesting, processing, wholesaling and retailing. They also need information about their support functions - input supply, financial services, transport, packaging, promoting and advisory services. Each farmer handles knowledge in a different way. More traditional farmers tend to cling to the knowledge they learned from their fathers. Market-oriented farmer- entrepreneurs actively seek new and reliable information that will help them decide how to make their farms more profitable. How farmers handle knowledge is a good indicator of how serious they are about making profits and being an entrepreneur. Download 1.19 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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