MANAGE Center for Secondary Agriculture, FPOs and Monitoring & Evaluation
Secondary Agriculture
Mandate
To build human capacity and institutional competence for agro processing, post harvest management, and agribusiness development.
The Institute delivers practical, market oriented training, that enable farmers, processors, cooperatives and small and medium enterprises to market raw agricultural commodities into safe, high value products.
Objectives
To design and deliver competency based courses in food processing, packaging, quality assurance and business management.
To provide short courses, certification programs
Facilitate linkages to finance, markets and regulatory agencies.
Monitor graduate outcomes and support enterprise incubation and scaling.
Thrust Areas
post-harvest management, waste utilization, food and bio-based enterprises, market linkages, and entrepreneurship development—with a strong focus on capacity building and skill enhancement for farmers, youth, and extension professionals.
Scope
Offering programs in value added services beyond primary production, such as agro-processing, food technology, horticulture, dairying and poultry farming.
These programs meet the growing demand for professionals in agri business and help farmers increase income and sustainability. /li>
Training in secondary agriculture can also develop skilled agri-entrepreneurs
