NDEF promotes social entrepreneurship among rural farmers so as to add value to their farm activities, increase the variety of farm products, increase farm incomes and improve family livelihoods. We approach social entrepreneurship from two standpoints: the managerial skills needed to start and run a profitable farm business and developing an ‘entrepreneurial spirit’. We coach farmers to work in groups of common interests, cooperatives and unions to constitute social enterprises. We train them to use business concepts to run their farms as a business. In this way, they have to put in capital like human, time and Training on beekeeping Training on harvesting honey financial with a view to earning profits. They would then be passionate about their farm business and would be willing to take calculated risks to make their farm business profitable and grow.We train agricultural social entrepreneurs with new ways of utilizing their land and available resources to create new wealth and more opportunities in the rural sector, thereby preventing problems associated with massive emigration out of rural milieus. We particularly promote the petty transformation of agricultural produce to increase value and the variety of agricultural products. Such transformation and processing is geared at absorbing the huge waste that is presently taking place in rural areas due to poor transportation services, bad farm to market roads and the absence of preservation and storage facilities. This need is further exacerbated by the
perishable nature of most primary agricultural produce. Our technical support entails giving business advice, business training and in some cases (where the need is strong), we source and deliver a micro credit component to enable the petty enterprises to take off.