Sustainable Agriculture supports farmers to transform their farms, with available natural resources, into more productive following a holistic and sustainable system. In particularly it aims to capacitate farmers to adopt diversified farming practices including recycling of farm-waste, climate resilient farming system and maximizing benefits from their produces that lead to multiple livelihood options. Value Chain Management has become common topic of discussion in the Agriculture and Agro-food Processing industries in all over the World. Agricultural marketing on the other hand has been progressing fast and many Asian countries have already adapted modern and online marketing practices. At present marketing is considered as the most important aspect of any business, and the only action that results in revenue. It has been envisaged that adopting sustainable farming practices, modern agricultural marketing plan and value chain management will definitely create opportunities for businesses and employments to adapt to an increasingly challenging environment in any country.
Course Objective
What do we expect the audience to achieve?
ability to plan the development of agribusiness entities
implementation new agribusiness entities
Widen views on different aspects of agro-processing at community including planning, financing, processing, marketing, value addition and value chain management
Explored the business concepts, economic principles, and management tools necessary to operate the business successfully
learned various elements of the value chain model and how to add value to the raw materials at various processes
Knowledge and skills in management, marketing, and Finance with emphasis on the requirements of the agribusiness sector
Course Outline
Overview of Agribusiness Development and Management
Production Planning and Supply Chain Management in Agribusiness – Principles and Strategies
Value Chain Process and Mapping in Agribusiness
Management Information Systems for Agribusiness
Entrepreneurship development and small business management or management of small Enterprises
Safety and Standardization of Agro-Industry Products
Conventional Agricultural Marketing and Modern Marketing
Market Competitiveness Analysis
Elements of Agricultural Marketing and Marketing Plan
Technological intervention and innovation in agro-processing and agro-based small and medium enterprises development
Policies and Thailand's lessons learnt in agro-processing and agro-based small and medium enterprises development
Case studies of different food (fruits, vegetables, meat) processing with references to Thailand
Tools and techniques – implementation of productivity concepts (market forecast, operation management, and sustaining the gains)
Value Chain Strategies and Model
Value Chain Management – State of Art
Implementation of Value Chain Management
Agro-based post-harvest management and packaging of agricultural produces
Improving Yield and reducing waste
Value addition and food fortification
Quality control and VCM in agro-processing and agro-based small and medium enterprises development
Target Audiences
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