Non -profit company TT100 and Business School The Davinci Institute launched the Free State Arm of the structured entrepreneurial development program for food producers and food manufacturers this week.
TT100 has a Business Innovation Awards program for organizations and individuals who work within an developing socio -economic context.
The companyThe Davinci Institute and the banking sector will also launch the program via Bankseta in Gauteng, KZN and northwestern province.
The Free State arm of the program was launched on Monday at Glen Agricultural College. This part of the program is intended to enable 15 young farmers with entrepreneurship and management skills, including the management of technology and business development, to work within food production and food production sector.
CEO of the Davinci Institute and chairman of TT100 Professor Ben Anderson said that the program offered a value chain of food production and food production.
“It also embraces the relationship to manage technology and innovation in an ecosystem. We should not produce because of the sale, but we have to look at the latest trends in food.
“We want to link the participants to the markets, research and industrial departments,” Anderson said.
The program offers participants exposing to education, company coaching, master classes, training workshops, development of business proposals and a local food festival.
TT100 and Davinci said their program responded directly to the systemic challenges with which the agricultural sector is confronted. One of the most persistent in the sector Issues were the shortage of skilled people who can manage the complexity of modern agriculture.
The program focuses on black and women -led SMMs that are often excluded from high -quality agricultural opportunities. It also promotes cooperative business models that promote cooperation, peer learning and social capital.
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