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TRACKING YOUR AGRIBUSINESS EXPENSES.

WHY YOU NEED TO TRACK YOUR BUSINESS EXPENSES?  Due to the human nature, we find it more interesting pleasurable to focus on money coming into the business (cash flow) than how it is been spent.  In business however, expenses are usually incurred during the course of production of goods and services. Therefore failure to track your business expenses can lead to you short changing yourself. Tracking or monitoring your Agribusiness expenses enables you as a business owner to capture all the cost incurred during the course of production of your goods and services from start to finish.  It gives you the full picture of your cash outflow.  This also allows you to know your TOTAL cost of production and eventually your actual cost price. As it is not enough just assume your cost price or even adopt your competitors cost price as your own.  When you track your expenses,you will be able to fix the RIGHT selling price for your agricultural produce or product so...

The EASIEST way to raise MONEY for your Agri-business: Agropartnership.

In the coming post covid-19 days, there is going be an increase in the need for raising capital as most reserved funds are already depleting very fast.  However, one of the easiest way and organic means to access funds will be to through agro-partnership Now, most times when we hear of the word partnership or collaborations, we think of big brands, cooperate bodies, international organisations, countries coming together with billions of dollars to do big things. Yes,  that's correct but that's just an angle to it. Today, we will look at collaboration from another angle, the micro angle. For instance, Mr Tunji, who happens to be a friend of mine, is a small poultry farmer who previously had about 50 birds(broilers and layers) wanted to scale up to a thousand birds. Having pulled all his resources together, he discovered that he could only afford to buy and maintain 250 birds. So,  he decided to speak to his friends and family in the 9am to 5pm world to joi...