INTRODUCTION

When starting an agriculture operation, which is a vital factor in output, agribusiness funding is crucial. Therefore, in order to ensure efficient sourcing and deployment of financial resources, this program examines the use of certain management techniques to enhance decision-making inside an agribusiness corporation.

• Contrarily, agricultural risk management is crucial since it decides how long a company will survive in the market and how well it will grow. This training's objectives are to assist participants in realizing their long-term organizational goals and objectives, which include profit maximization, which can only be done by reducing costs and maximizing output.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Participants will have acquired knowledge of;

• agricultural investment and agricultural finance by the end of the course.
• Recognize the general construction principles used in financial statements in the agricultural industry.
• Develop your agribusiness lending expertise.
• List the main agribusiness risks and agricultural credit risks together.
• Recognize risk management and mitigation strategies for agricultural investment hazards.
• Recognize what financial data reveals about the state and future course of a company.
• Gain knowledge of capital budgeting, how cash budgets are utilized to define the procedure, and how the agricultural organization will acquire and distribute cash resources over time..

DURATION

5 days

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course is designed for a variety of actors in agriculture extension, including officers, senior agricultural officials, and policymakers who work with communities, governments, funding agencies, research organizations, and non-governmental organizations, among others, to support agriculture and other development programs.

COURSE CONTENT

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

GENERAL NOTES

• Our seasoned instructors, who have years of experience as seasoned professionals in their respective fields of work, will be teaching this course. A combination of practical exercises, theory, group projects, and case studies are used to teach the course.
• The participants receive training manuals and supplementary reading materials.
• Participants who complete this course successfully will receive a certificate.
• We can also create a course specifically for your organization to match your needs. To learn more, get in touch with us at training@dealsontrainers.org.
• The training will take place at DEALSON TRAINERS IN NAIROBI, KENYA in Nairobi, Kenya.
• The training fee includes lunch, course materials, and lodging for the training session. Upon request, we may arrange for our participants' lodging and transportation to the airport.
• Payment must be made to our bank account before the training begins, and documentation of payment should be emailed to training@dealsontrainers.org