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AgCLIR Chapter: Getting Credit

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Virtually all modern businesses rely upon credit: for operations, to bridge the gap between production of products and payment for them; for investment, as buildings and capital equipment are generally multiples of annual revenues; and to cover swings in supply and demand conditions.

AgCLIR Chapter: Registering Property

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 Three kinds of property are important in the agribusiness sector:

·         Real property (land or buildings);

AgCLIR Chapter: Employing Workers

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Significant employment in agriculture is seasonal and informal. Employment laws and policies are often misinterpreted as irrelevant in much of the sector; however, for seasonal agricultural labor markets to operate efficiently, workers must have the ability to move among agricultural jobs and/or to pursue non-farm employment or entrepreneurial activities intermittently or simultaneously with their agricultural employment.

AgCLIR Chapter: Competing Fairly

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AgCLIR Chapter: Dealing with Licenses

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The business of agriculture is typically heavily regulated. Moreover, it is often regulated in a way that requires business owners to actively search out what can seem like, under the best of circumstances, inconsistent and counterintuitive licensing requirements. Operating licenses enable governments to control where, how, and under what circumstances businesses may operate.

AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Starting a Business

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Attached Document: 
application/pdf iconAgCLIR - Starting a Business.pdf
Source: 
BizCLIR
Document Type: 
PDF
Date: 
January 5, 2011

Agribusinesses often operate informally, posing challenges associated with access to credit, insurance, and support services.  AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Starting a Business is a briefer that highlights the specific issues that must be addressed in regards to the local legal, regulatory, and institutional environments for starting an agribusiness. 

 

AgCLIR Chapter: Starting A Business

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Starting an agribusiness can be as simple as clearing an unclaimed plot of land, growing a crop of potatoes, and selling them in a nearby retail market or as complex as investing in a sophisticated manufacturing plant capable of using complex chemical extraction to turn tons of corn into products for consumption or industrial use. Most agricultural enterprises, even when oriented to production for the market, are managed by individual farmers or households who produce crops on land secured only with traditional tenure rights.

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