The Program focuses on developing models to assist small farmers in their decision making with respect to management strategies, new technologies, sustainability, and competitiveness and viability.
Our training and mentoring programs are aimed towards farm workers, supervisors and managers at introductory and advanced levels on all aspects of agricultural production, marketing and farm management.
AGRIMAX partners with organizations that train, educate, and provides outreach and technical assistance to new and beginning farmers on production, marketing, business management, legal strategies and other topics critical to running a successful operation.
Technological advancement has created more opportunities for farmers to develop a profitable business. Small farms (earning less than $50,000 annually or occupying less than 180 acres) are now considered potentially lucrative as both rural and urban business opportunities. Entrepreneurs should consider ideas like bee farms, rooftop gardens, Aquaponics and microgreens when choosing among profitable ventures.
Smallholders have become increasingly vulnerable to a spectrum of emerging climatic, health, price, and financial risks and challenges as well. These emerging challenges lead many smallholder farmers to pursue livelihood strategies that involve lower-risk and lower-yielding agricultural activities. Such responses can help smallholders cope with adverse events, but they also cause poverty to persist, trapping smallholders in a cycle of little or no profits, with limited opportunities to undertake more productive and innovative activities.
The vicious circle of vulnerability, low-yielding activities, and food insecurity among smallholders needs to be broken. While many smallholder farmers can find more-profitable livelihood opportunities outside of agriculture, other smallholders can be transformed into profitable businesses that operate at an efficient scale within agriculture. However, this group of potentially profitable smallholder farmers needs a policy environment that supports and nurtures this transformation and helps them overcome the challenges they face.
The Smallholder AgriFarming Support Program is a Source of Agriculture, Farming, Horticulture, Crop Cultivation, Aquaculture, Livestock, Gardening, Subsidies, Loans, & Sample Projects.