INTRODUCTION
Risks in agriculture arise from various sources and can be systematic or idiosyncratic. A wide array of tools can be implemented at various level in compliment of other factors to help deal with the risks effectively. This training therefore focuses on a range of selected key tools applicable on the following categories; On-farm, Finance, Market related and Government Based agricultural based risk management tools depending on the risk situation .
DURATION
5 days
COURSE OBJECTIVES
By the end of the training, the learner will be able to:
- Outline the agricultural risk management for mitigating and preventing risk on-farm and community level.
- Describe the major finance / market-related risk management and the situations best suited for the adoption of these tools.
- Explain the government- supported agricultural risk management tools which strive to provide solutions that safeguards.
- Identify the suitability of these tools alone or in a combination for a given situation.
- Understand the advantages and disadvantages of all the tools.
COURSE OUTLINE
Module 1: Introduction to agribusiness investment
- Agribusiness dynamics
- Agribusiness producers
- Nature of agribusiness products
- Risks and uncertainty in agribusiness
- Why is investment risk important?
- Requirements for rural investment
- Trading in agribusiness
Module 2: Introduction to agribusiness finance
- Importance of rural and agricultural finance
- Features of rural and agribusiness finance
- Sources of agribusiness finance
- Future needs in agriculture finance
Module 3: Essentials of agribusiness finance
- Financial planning process
- Financial analysis and control of agribusiness projects
- Capital budgeting and long-term decision making
- Management of financial intermediaries serving agriculture
- Role of technology in agribusiness finance
- Gender and access to agribusiness finance
Module 4: Agribusiness lending
- Agribusiness entities
- Borrowing needs
- Microfinance institutions role and impacts in financing SMEs
- Credit delivery methodologies
- Overview of the agriculture credit cycle
- Credit decision process
Module 5: Risk mitigation and management for agricultural investment
- Key challenges for rural and agricultural financial service provision
- Risk management in rural financial institutions
- Agribusiness credit risk measurement and management tools
- Public risk mitigation approaches
- Key policy issues
CUSTOMIZED TRAINING
This training can also be customized for your institution upon request. You can have it delivered your preferred location.
For further inquiries, please contact us on details below:
Tel: +254 (0) 739167709.
Email: training @versedpro.com
ONLINE REGISTRATION
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