Department of Agri Business
Agribusiness is the business of agricultural production. It includes agrichemicals, breeding, crop production, farming, distribution, farming machinery, and seed supply, as well as marketing and retail sales. All agents of the food and fiber value chain and those institutions that influence it are part of the agribusiness system.
You don’t need a huge space to get into the agriculture business. If you have a city or suburban home, you can still plant some crops in small or vertical containers to get the most out of your space.
Whether you live in the city or country, you can take the food that you grow or produce and sell it at local farmers’ markets to earn an income.
You can also plant a variety of different vegetables and harvest them to sell or make into different products.
Even if you don’t have enough space to actually farm livestock, you can still contribute to the industry by manufacturing feed for livestock.
Or you could grow and harvest various types of fruit to sell or make into other fruit based products.
Soybeans, cloves and other types of crops require a fair amount of field space to grow. But if you have the land, you can harvest specific crops to sell to food producers.
You can also start your own nursery where you grow and sell different types of plants to consumers or businesses.
If you have the space and the ability to care for cows or other dairy animals, you could start your own dairy farms where you produce milk, cheese and similar products.
Or you could focus on caring for chickens and other poultry animals to supply food production companies.
Fish farming is also a growing sector of the agriculture – or in this case, aquaculture – industry. The process requires raising fish in large tanks or enclosures.
You can also raise rabbits for a variety of different purposes within small pens or similar enclosures.
You could also start a farm where you focus specifically on growing various types of mushrooms.