🌾Agriculture
Agribusiness Manager
Runs a farm so that it turns a profit
Combines knowledge of agronomy or animal husbandry with management — planning a farm's work, costing it out and setting up the sale of its products.
What they do
- ▹Plans the farm's work: planting, purchasing, work schedules
- ▹Calculates production costs and looks for ways to cut expenses
- ▹Organizes the sale of harvests or livestock products
- ▹Manages a crew of field workers or a farm team
Skills you need
- ▹Knowledge of agronomy or zootechnics fundamentals
- ▹Basic management and accounting skills
- ▹Organizational skills for leading a crew
- ▹Negotiating with suppliers and buyers
- ▹Analytical thinking for calculating profitability
Focus on these subjects at school
BiologyMathematicsSocial studies
Where they work
- ▹Agroholding companies and large farming operations
- ▹Agricultural cooperatives
- ▹The Ministry of Agriculture and its projects
- ▹Companies that buy and process farm produce
Pros
- + Combines hands-on agriculture with a management career
- + In demand at growing agroholdings and farming cooperatives
Challenges
- − Responsible for the whole farm's financial result, not just the harvest
- − Work depends on weather and market prices just as much as an agronomist's does
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