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Fund for cheetahs teaching emerging farmers financial management skills |
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Written by Staff Reporters
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“Now I can determine how much lick I need, at what cost, for an entire month, and more importantly, I know that I will earn excellent returns on this investment,” said a course participant at the end of the financial management training course recently presented by the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF).
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| 17 emerging farmers have benefited from a practical financial management course presented by the CCF. |
Seventeen emerging farmers and agricultural students completed the
one-week training course, which was hosted by the EU funded Emerging
Commercial Farmers’ Support Programme (ECFSP) and presented by the
Cheetah Conservation Fund at its Research and Education Centre, which
is outside Otjiwarongo.
The course’s content covered a much wider spectrum than just the
benefits of supplementary feeding. Farmers were taught how to align
herd size to forage availability, to compile their own marketing plans,
to derive their annual income, to calculate direct productions costs in
line with the management calendar, to determine other overhead costs
and to calculate expected surpluses or losses. More light was also shed
on the principles of lending money and the repayment of loans, on the
importance of record keeping, and the principles of VAT and Income Tax.
Farmers were sensitised on the importance of farm workers to the
success of any farming enterprise.
At the end of the course, it was expected that the course participants
gained insight into the functioning and objectives of the Cheetah
Conservation Fund, and learnt more about its various programmes on
offer, such as the Livestock Guarding Dog initiative. CCF’s course
facilitator stated that more courses are scheduled for later this year.
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