Post Graduate Diploma in Agribusiness Management

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This Agribusiness course has been developed to assist farmers and aspiring farmers to develop skills and knowledge in the agricultural sector including business management skills for agribusiness.

 This course is suitable for farmers, aspiring farmers and even agribusiness organizations. It is also suitable for students who want to get qualification certificate in the agribusiness.

By the end of the course the learner should be able to:
• Acquire skills for managing agribusinesses
• Acquire knowledge of supply chain management in agribusiness, business and strategic decision
making concepts

Module 1- Agribusiness management: scope, functions, tasks
• The business of agribusiness
• Managing the agribusiness
• Economics for agribusiness managers

Module 2

• Agribusiness Management: organization and scope
  • The organization of an agribusiness
  • International agribusiness

Module 3. Marketing Management for agribusiness

• Strategic market plan
  • The marketing mix
  • Tools for marketing in agribusiness

Module 4-Financial management for agribusiness

• Understanding financial statements
• Analyzing financial statements
  • Financing the agribusiness
  • Tools for evaluation operating decisions
  • Tools for evaluating capital investment decisions

Module 5- Operations management for agribusiness

• Production planning and management
  • Supply chain management for agribusiness

Module 6- Human resource management for agribusiness

• Managing organizational structure
  • Managing human resource in agribusiness

Module 7- Agricultural Commodity Markets

• Characteristics of commodities
  • Classification of markets
  • Market players and motives
  • Forward and backward linkages in markets
  • Recent innovations in commodities markets

Module 8- Entrepreneurship development and cash management in Agribusiness

• Concept of entrepreneurship
  • Types of entrepreneurships
  • Factors required to motivate entrepreneurship
  • Entrepreneur vs. Entrepreneurship
  • Cash management
  • Problems of cash management
  
  

Module 9- Futures exchange and risk management

• Causes of price risk
  • Methods of tackling price risk for farm products
  • Hedging
  • Warehouses and warehousing

Module 10

• Research Paper
  • You will be required to choose a research topic, share it with the moderator, upon agreement write a proposal, after that do corrections plus writing chapters three, four and five of the whole paper.
  Guidelines will be provided on the format preferred by the institute.

Module 11

• Final Examination

Training Format
• All materials are made available through our Online Learning Platform
• Students should commit approximately 5-6 hours of their time per week

Materials Provided

Online delivery of curriculum materials, exercises and templates.

Minimum entry requirements
• Holders of a Bachelor’s degree from a recognized University
• Holders of an equivalent qualification from any other recognized Institution
Assignments

In order to demonstrate their understanding of the course content, students will be required to submit 10 assignments (Continuous Assessment test) that Account to 70 % of their Work and a Project Paper at the Tail end of the course, which accounts to 30 % of the course Work.

• Course duration: 1 Year (2 Semesters)
• Regions Targeted: Global