Hi steemians, how are you doing? For the next few days, I want to share with us what agribusiness entails, its potentials, etc. I hope you are inspired to venture into agriculture after the topic.
entails activity of production to processing, storage, packaging, transportation, retailing, wholesaler, to the final consumer.
Agribusiness is very large and involve the handling of the product through various processes, it include the participation of several million of stakeholder from farmer to labour to input manufacturer sellers traders and so on plus the finance institution and government agencies.
Agribusiness is market oriented.
Good management is very important to the success of any agribusiness.
Management is nothing but a decision making process, through which purposes and objectives of business firm are determined
Management on the other hand is the efficient use of men, material and resources towards achieving specific objectives
There are two dimensions to elements of management. These are;
• HUMAN DIMENSION: this includes the skills and ability of people.
• TECHNICAL DIMENSION: this entails the intellectual capacity of people.
Management functions
This is said to be the process or stages of management. It includes
1 planning
2 organization
3 staffing
4 directing
5 controlling
6 coordinating
7 motivating
8 communications
9 decision making
10 innovations
Management is needed to convert the disorganized resources of men, materials machine and method into useful and effective enterprise
Management is like a pipeline that conveys the input and converts it into output.
This is how far we can go today. Stay tuned for the next article on agribusiness. I hope you like it.
Till next time, I'm Lurvie✍
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