Entrepreneurial Agriculture Diploma at Baraka Agricultural College

This Diploma in Entrepreneurial Agriculture course is designed to equip the trainee with relevant Knowledge, skill and attitudes to enable him/her to work in Agriculture establishment and related industries. its aims at imparting competencies required to safely operate and effectively supervise entrepreneurial agriculture production process.

This Diploma in Entrepreneurial Agriculture course is designed to equip the trainee with relevant knowledge, skill and attitudes to enable him/her to work in Agriculture establishment and related industries. its aims at imparting competencies required to safely operate and effectively supervise entrepreneurial agriculture production process.

It involves analyzing and understanding the strategies of agricultural entrepreneurs, particularly in response to the institutional changes and economic and technological disruptions to which the agricultural industry is subject. After completing the course, you will be able to understand the complexities of the agricultural value chain to conduct business and establish an entrepreneurial orientated agri- business.

Areas of Entrepreneurship in Agriculture

• Agro Produce processing units – These units do not manufacture any new product. They merely process the agricultural products e.g. Rice mills, Dal mills, decorticating mills etc.
• Agro Produce manufacturing units – These units produce entirely new products based on the agricultural products as the main raw material. e.g. Sugar factories, Bakery, Straw board units etc.
• Agro-inputs manufacturing units – These units produce goods either for mechanization of agriculture on for increasing manufacturing plants, e.g. Fertilizer production units, food processing units, agricultural implements etc.
• Agro service centers – These include the workshops and service centre for repairing and serving the agricultural implement used in agriculture.
• Miscellaneous areas – Besides the above-mentioned areas, the following areas may prove to be encouraging to establish agri-enterprises such as setting up of Apiaries, feed processing units, seed processing units, mushroom production units, commercial vermin-compose units, goat rearing farmers club, organic vegetable and fruits retail outlet, bamboo plantation and Jatropha cultivation
• Miscellaneous areas – Besides the above-mentioned areas, the following areas may prove to be encouraging to establish agri-enterprises such as setting up of Apiaries, feed processing units, seed processing units, mushroom production units, commercial vermin-compose units, goat rearing farmers club, organic vegetable and fruits retail outlet, bamboo plantation and Jatropha cultivation

Career opportunities;

• Soil scientist
• Farm manager
• Agronomist
• Livestock and animal production specialist
• Educator
• Research scientist
• Plant breeder, and more.
  

Entry requirement

• KCSE mean grade of C- (minus)
• Pass in relevant craft/certificate course