Farming as a Business

A practical handbook for first-time farmers who seek to shorten the learning curve from farm conceptualization to farm growth and minimise trial-related costs.

When you decide to become a farmer, you implicitly embark on setting up an enterprise that is destined to operate as a business. In order for the farm to quickly transition from conceptualisation to rapid growth, you must appreciate certain facets that relate to the traditional factors of production i.e. land, labour, capital and entrepreneurship as well as emerging issues such as climate change. In the context of developing countries, these factors of production do manifest themselves in some unique way such as labour laws and traditions, access to land and capital etc.

In this book, Bruno Mweemba distils years of practical horticulture farming in Zambia and business consulting with farmers into this practical handbook, especially for first-time farmers. He covers aspects related to the factors of production as they relate to the various stages of setting up and running a farming enterprise with a focus on issues that often cause farming enterprises to end up operating like a charitable entity as opposed to being a business.

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