1 Farm Level Producers:
At individual or family level, every farming is to be treated as a venture, to enhance the production by making best use of the land, technology possessions and demand in the market.
2. Service Providers:
For optimizing agriculture by every family business, there are diverse types of services requisite at the village level. These include the input borrowing and distribution, hiring of equipment like tractors, ploughs sprayers, ox-cuts seed drills, threshers, harvesters `dryers and scientific services such as setting up of irrigation amenities,etc.
Related opportunities exist in the livestock husbandry sector for providing breeding, immunization, disease diagnostic and treatment services, (dipping facilities).
Organizations such as MUSIKA are providing such extensional services to the livestock farmers.
3. Input Producers:
There are many flourishing enterprises, which need critical inputs. a few such inputs which can be produced by the home entrepreneurs at the village level are bio pesticides, soil amendments, bio fertilizers, vermicomposting, plants of diverse species of vegetables, fruits, ornamentals, root media for raising plants in pots, production of cattle feed concentrate, agricultural tools, irrigation accessories, mineral mixture and complete feed. There are good openings to support, fishery, sericulture and poultry as well, during sponsorship of critical service amenities in rural areas.
4. Processing and Marketing of Farm Produce:
Well organized management of post-production processes requires higher level of knowledge as well as investment. Such ventures can be handled by People’s Organizations’, either the form of cooperatives, service joint companies or societies. The most successful instances are the dairy cooperatives (Mpima daily farm in Kabwe Central province) cooperatives, and fruit growers’ cooperatives in lots of districts. However, the success of such undertaking is exclusively dependent on the reliability and ability of the leaders involved.
Such undertaking needs good specialized support for running the activities as a competitive trade and to contend well with other players in the market, mainly the retail traders and intermediates.
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