Around 35 Young Professionals participated to a workshop for Young Entrepreneurs in Agricultural Business, in Kigali, Rwanda, on 26th and 27th March 2011.
Around 35 Young Professionals participated to a workshop for Young Entrepreneurs in Agricultural Business, in Kigali, Rwanda, on 26th and 27th March 2011.
This workshop was organized by YPARD-Rwanda and sponsored by JICA-Rwanda.
Africa has a dominant young population who doesn’t consider agriculture as a profitable business. Meanwhile elders hardly face the requirements for modern agricultural technologies mechanisms (Mechanization, use of high yielding varieties, application of inputs and weather forecast compliance, etc…).
The skilled young people including agriculture graduates can play a major role in providing services in the rural areas especially in agriculture sector, by transforming the current subsistence agriculture into extensive and business oriented one, with food security assured and rural development attained. Still some of challenges are faced by Young entrepreneurs.
How to face these challenges? What can be the agenda to propose to different stakeholders? That is what the 2 days workshop of Young Entrepreneurs in Kigali has discussed.
Read the workshop report.