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Farm Planning and Management 
PREMISE: Managers employed to plan and manage public and private farm businesses may be technically capable. However, their ability to translate and turn around investment in agriculture into profit is often not adequate. Their inability to generate value for money, (in agricultural business), most times is as a result of the fact that they do not possess the requisite practical farm planning and management skills to manage the investments efficiently and generate expected results.

OBJECTIVES: This course is designed to equip farm planners and managers and farm management specialists with the relevant knowledge and skills to increase their effectiveness and efficiency and to help them make profits out of investment.
At the end of the course, participants should be able to:
  • apply relevant skills and techniques needed to plan and manage medium and large-scale commercial farms profitably;
  • keep accurate records for farm businesses; and
  • run farms as business enterprises.
CONTENT:
  • The farm and its environment.
  • Overview of farm planning and management theory and practice.
  • Economic decision making in farm planning and management.
  • Data collection and analysis.
  • Farm planning and budgeting.
  • Farm analysis.
  • Farm business record keeping.
  • Farm labour planning and management.
  • Farm machinery planning and management.
  • Farm credit planning and management.
  • Managing post-harvest activities.
  • Computer appreciation in farm planning and management.
TRAINING METHODS: Lecturettes, case studies, group exercises and study visit .
WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Planning Officer and Farm Managers in Teaching, Research and Commercial farms in Universities, Collages of Agriculture, Polytechnics, Prisons and NYSC farms, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC); Commercial officers in the ADPs, Farm managers/Specialists in the MANR, Farm Operatives in the agricultural Outfits of Oil Companies, Multi-national Corporations, Breweries, Private Sectors Agricultural and Agro based establishments.
DURATION:  One Week DATE: May 19 -23. 2008
VENUE: Ilorin, Nigeria CHARGES: =N=27,000.00
 

 Updated 2008 Agricultural & Rural Management Training Institute, Ilorin, Nigeria