Dairy Business Incubation Training in Kenya
Business Incubation for Dairy Farmers
Become a Dairy Farm Entrepreneur! Excel in technical, managerial, economic, communication and negotiation aspects of your business; get qualified and ready
to run your own dairy farm. Are your ready to Fast Forward?
What you will gain after the business incubation training
- Enhanced capacity to develop and manage your dairy farm for optimal household income
- Adequate capacity to carry out sustainable dairy farming
- Acquisition of competences in dairy farm management courses (create a link to the courses), personal development and entrepreneurship.
Components of the Training
- Duration: 6 weeks spread over one-year period
- Blended learning: e-learning (online training), practical assignments during lessons, internship on third party farms, peer group benchmarking, digital tools and gaming.
- Value addition: if necessary, a trainee can follow a 1-week milk processing (value addition) training at the demo processing facility at the Centre of Expertise (CoE)
- Access to CoE thematic workshops: breeding, forage, seeds, machinery etc. during the training weeks.
- Certification: after one year of training, the trainee will be expected to have made improvement on their farm and developed a complete 5-year business plan. Once the business plan is approved, the trainee will be awarded a Certificate of Young Professional Dairy Farmer
- Linkage to financial institutions, sponsors/donors: for access to credit for farm improvement investments once his/her business plan is approved.
The potential trainee must be:
- Working on a dairy farm on fulltime basis ready to be a successor or future herd manager therein
- Willing to develop and optimize the dairy farm and join a study group of fast forward young dairy farmers after successfully completing the training.
- Ready to become a demonstration farmer for smallholders in their locality after training and certification.
- Willing to involve their family or owner of the farm at the start of training period to line up vision and mission of the farm and at the end to share the developed business plan prior to being accorded approval by the family/owner
- Willing and ready to do all the assignments in time and work in farms for a prescribed period of time.
- In possession of a laptop or iPad
- Able to pay all the fees in time; PDTC Kenya will also connect trainees to sponsors/donors where possible
- Ready to go to The Netherlands for a 1-month internship on a family dairy farm and invite the Dutch dairy farmer to their farm after the certification.
- Must be willing to collect a baseline data from their farm to be used for learning purposes.
How it works:
- Prior to a potential trainee’s selection, the farm will be visited by PDTC Kenya staff for a baseline survey.
- PDTC Kenya staff and the potential trainee will discuss criteria for admission to the business incubation training.