Farm Management
As part of our business development in Africa, Afrisource is looking at Namibia and benchmarking the data there and part of looking at the people and management profit driver was to identify...
Donnie is the former CEO for Tyson Foods. Donna worked with Tyson for 36 years and he rose through the ranks as CEO. But beyond just his leadership at Tyson Foods I actually want to say within the community he was absolutely loved. We are inspired by his work in Africa and his strong commitment in helping the continent succeed in the next decades through sustainable agriculture. I want to talk a little bit about the “Why?” first then I want to talk about the “What”. So here’s the “why?”. In 1980 I just call this 1980 he graduated from the University of Tennessee with the BS in Animal Science. In that year there were about five billion people on this planet and according to FAO data we produced about 2.4 trillion metric tons of food on this planet. Okay? So now let’s fast-forward through a thirty-six year career in the food business. In 2017 there’re about seven billion people on this planet and we produce about 4.5
Moris and Abigail run Vegetable Farms located in a suburb near Uganda capital Kampala. They are growing high-quality organic vegetables for high-end restaurants in Kampala Suburb. Abigail is a Computer Engineering graduate and her business partner Moris but they started some idea of vegetable farming, they began this on a
An unexpected phenomenon has been occurring in Africa over the past 3 decades. People of all kinds of unrelated professions have dropped out of their jobs and decided to become farmers. Most of these adventurous folks have no prior experience in farming. They just got to a point where they
Nelson runs a small family farm in northern Uganda. They have mainly focused on commercial cattle farming. The farm has rapidly grown over the years with no signs of slowing down. They now have six full time helpers and a very large part time staff. The Nelsons recently have become
Donnie is the former CEO for Tyson Foods. Donna worked with Tyson for 36 years and he rose through the ranks as CEO. But beyond just his leadership at Tyson Foods I actually want to say within the community he was absolutely loved. We are inspired by his work in Africa and his strong commitment in helping the continent succeed in the next decades through sustainable agriculture. I want to talk a little bit about the “Why?” first then I want to talk about the “What”. So here’s the “why?”. In 1980 I just call this 1980 he graduated from the University of Tennessee with the BS in Animal Science. In that year there were about five billion people on this planet and according to FAO data we produced about 2.4 trillion metric tons of food on this planet. Okay? So now let’s fast-forward through a thirty-six year career
This is where the situational analysis tools (SWOT) plays a big role. Look at your current workload, what are the average hours worked per person per week? Do you actually know this? Have yo...
Employees are empowered and engaged when the communication is right. Take advantage of every opportunity that you can have to initiate informal but also formal communication processes, this...
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Afrisource trains smallholder farmers on best practices in the sale and purchase of goods. We also provide starter kits for hydroponics fodder.
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Nelson runs a small family farm in northern Uganda. They have mainly focused on commercial cattle farming. The farm has rapidly grown over the years with no signs of slowing
Do you know that entrepreneurs in Africa have started using technology to create highly sustainable solutions to some of the biggest and pressing problems in the agricultural sector? Agriculture is
Moris and Abigail run Vegetable Farms located in a suburb near Uganda capital Kampala. They are growing high-quality organic vegetables for high-end restaurants in Kampala
Donnie is the former CEO for Tyson Foods. Donna worked with Tyson for 36 years and he rose through the ranks as CEO. But beyond
An unexpected phenomenon has been occurring in Africa over the past 3 decades. People of all kinds of unrelated professions have dropped out of their
Nelson runs a small family farm in northern Uganda. They have mainly focused on commercial cattle farming. The farm has rapidly grown over the years
Moris and Abigail run Vegetable Farms located in a suburb near Uganda capital Kampala. They are growing high-quality organic vegetables for high-end restaurants in Kampala Suburb. Abigail is a Computer Engineering graduate and her business partner Moris but they started some idea of vegetable farming, they began this on a small scale just to give them something to do and pass the time. They did not realize that there was
Donnie is the former CEO for Tyson Foods. Donna worked with Tyson for 36 years and he rose through the ranks as CEO. But beyond just his leadership at Tyson Foods I actually want to say within the community he was absolutely loved. We are inspired by his work in Africa and his strong commitment in helping the continent succeed in the next decades through sustainable agriculture. I want
An unexpected phenomenon has been occurring in Africa over the past 3 decades. People of all kinds of unrelated professions have dropped out of their jobs and decided to become farmers. Most of these adventurous folks have no prior experience in farming. They just got to a point where they said Screw this job, I’m going to become a farmer. Over the last 30 years, Many small independent family farms
Nelson runs a small family farm in northern Uganda. They have mainly focused on commercial cattle farming. The farm has rapidly grown over the years with no signs of slowing down. They now have six full time helpers and a very large part time staff. The Nelsons recently have become large enough to even construct their own onsite processing plant now the family can save that money they were outsourcing
As part of our business development in Africa, Afrisource is looking at Namibia and benchmarking the data there and part of looking at the people and management profit driver was to identify what the characteristics were of the farm managers and what was it that drove their businesses? Defined culture If we’re looking at HR principles that we can implement, what are the actual characteristics of good performing farm managers,
This is where the situational analysis tools (SWOT) plays a big role. Look at your current workload, what are the average hours worked per person per week? Do you actually know this? Have you got timesheets? Do you understand when you have got your peak periods and your quieter periods and how that fits? What does the productivity look like per FTE (full-time equivalent) or hectare? Do you actually need
Employees are empowered and engaged when the communication is right. Take advantage of every opportunity that you can have to initiate informal but also formal communication processes, this could be from weekly meetings, workshop meetings, or in the lunchroom through to performance reviews and you know most of you would have completed sowing perhaps what’s happening posts sowing to review how that went before things get busy into the next
For any human resource development strategy to succeed it’s important to have a clear vision that provides the roadmap for your farm business and outlines your goals. This allows the business to move from intuitive business planning to more formalized planning, which gives you a communication tool for your team which allows them to understand your direction from year to year to understand why they’re doing what they’re doing from
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