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farmers and fisherfolks

remain the poorest in the country.

1. Capital

2. Postharvest facility

3. Climate change

4. Market access

5. Innovation

TOP 5 CHALLENGES FACED BY FILIPINO FARMERS TODAY

Poverty incidence

the number of individuals below the per capita poverty thresholds divided by the total number of individuals

8.8%

global poverty incidence

18.1%

Doubled national povertyincidence

30%

Farmers povertyincidence

14

Farmers, who mostly belong to the bottom 50% earners in the country,only share % of the national income.

Farming as a Business

is an extension approach to working with farmer groups during agricultural interventions. It is a form of private-sector development to sustainably increase the profits of low-income, smallholder farmers. It involves technical and institutional capacity building.

increase the technical capacity of farmers groups

❖ sustainably increasing incomes of smallholder farmers

OBJECTIVES OF FARMING AS AN ENTERPRISE

Farmer

person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who raise field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry or other livestock or do some combination thereof.

Entrepreneur

an individual who creates a new business, bearing most of the risks and enjoying most of the rewards.

Agricultural entrepreneurs

are those who classify all activities that help farmers to adjust a free market economy as entrepreneurial (Richards and Bulkley, 2007) and who introduces changes which directly or indirectly lead to higher agricultural inputs (Haredero, 1979).

Exclusively for home consumption

Mostly for home consumption but with the intention of selling surpluses on the market.

3. Partly for the market and partly for home consumption.

4. Exclusively for the market.

REASONS FOR SMALL-SCALE FARMING (4)

Decline in the size of the land

2. Growth of urban areas and rapid increase in population 3. General modernization

REASONS WHY FARMERS NEED TO BECOME AGRICULTURAL ENTREPRENEURS

Agricultural entrepreneurship

relates to marketing and producing various agricultural products, as well as agricultural inputs. It provides value addition to agricultural resources typically engaging rural human resources

Agricultural inputs

are products or resources that farmers use in farm products.

Agripreneur

individual who starts, organizes and manages a business venture focusing on the agricultural sector.

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Key skill needed to runagribussness (atleast5)

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CHARACTERISTICS OF A SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEUR ( atleast 5 )

Rural world 1

Farmers, who are globally competitive, embedded in agri-business, commodity producers and processors, politically connected, linked to formal markets and often export-driven.

Rural World 2

Locally orientated farmers with access to and control of land, multiple enterprises, who are often undercapitalized and declining in terms of trade.

Rural World 3

Farmers known for their fragile livelihoods, limited access to productive resources, multi-occupational migrants straddling rural and urban residencies, unskilled and uneducated and dependent on low-waged, casual family labor.

women farmers

small scale family farmers

medium scale farmers

commercial farmers

Types of farmers as potential agripreneurs

Women farmers

The economic importance of women farmers and their role in increasing household income is often overlooked. Women farmers often experience a unique set of challenges, including the availability of labor, lack of authority and decision making within the family, which impacts on their farming system options.

Small-scale family farmers

characterized by limited resources in terms of land (generally less than two hectares), water and money. These farmers are an aging population, they are often not well educated. There are few smallholder farmers who have the capital, capacity and desire to become agripreneurs. However, smallholder farmers are an important farmer segment as they make up the bulk of farmers in a country.

medium scale farmers

key contributors to the production and marketing of major food crops such as cereals and oil seeds. They typically have access to at least 2-10 hectares of land, may have a primary school education and have better access to credit and

socioeconomic status in the community. these farmers are often

more progressive and may be more easily approached about newi business enterprises. These farmers are often in positions of leadership within farmer organizations.

commercial farmers

usually have access to resources, such as capital, marketing information, technologies and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) tools. It is likely that _____ are entrepreneurs and that they pay for specialized services which will include market development, management and financial aspects of entrepreneurship.