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AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Dealing with Licenses

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Source: 
USAID/BizCLIR
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PDF
Date: 
January 10, 2011

A number of industry-specific licenses can affect effective agribusiness operations; from seed and fertilizer certification, to farm equipment import and distribution, and health and food safety licenses. AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Dealing with Licenses highlights the specific issues that must be addressed in regards to the local legal, regulatory, and institutional environments for starting an agribusiness. 

 

 

AgCLIR Chapter: Dealing with Licenses

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.

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