BDS Training for Groundnut Value Chain Actors
Business Development Services (BDS) Training for Groundnut Value Chain Actors (Homabay County)- 7 – 9 May, 2024 at Staridge Hotel-Homabay
Small Smallholder Empowerment and Agribusiness promotion (SHEP Biz) project is supporting and promoting groundnut value chain in Homabay County with particular emphasis on value addition (processing). At the start of the project, groundnut value chain analysis was done and together with stakeholders’ groundnut value chain action plan was developed to address the gaps identified. Among many gaps identified as factors hindering smooth growth of the value chain, lack of entrepreneurial skills among groundnut value chain actors stood out. This therefore informed the project to organize a three days training of groundnut processors, groundnut value chain platform officials, groundnut aggregators and agribusiness officers from the county on entrepreneurial skills.
The training objectives included; To enhance entrepreneurial skills of groundnut value chain actors, to improve leadership skills of group leaders in groundnut value chain, to enhance financial management skills of the groundnut value chain actors, to understand market environment for groundnut value chain and to provide platform for interaction and networking amongst groundnut value chain actors.
A total of 21 (8 male, 13 female) value chain actors and county agribusiness officers were trained on business development services (entrepreneurship). Trainers were drawn from Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (SHEP Biz), Kenya Institute of Business Training (KIBT) and Africa Agribusiness Academy (AAA).
