Farmers Guide

Farmers Guide Consultancy (FG) is a company that provides up-to-date agriculture information and real time market conditions to the agribusiness community.

We also facilitate and promote networking opportunities to small, medium and large scale farmers to enhance exchange of agriculture best practice, market prices and emerging trends and developments in the agriculture sector.

In order to build capacity and enable farmers make optimal investment decisions, Farmers Guide organizes short term, demand driven training’s and workshops.

Farmers Guide (FG) provides the agriprenure with hands-on, practical training that they will need to own and/or manage a diversified agribusiness. On our various demo sites, training participants learn a variety of skills that are critical to an agro entrepreneurs success, course contents range from land preparations, understanding pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, fertilizers, marketing, we also bring to the table the chain stores like Shoprite, Pick and Pay, Choppies and others to come and talk about how they can buy from the local farmers

Farmers Guide (FG) is excited to offer new, more accessible training opportunities for farmers, gardeners, and community members with varying levels of experience

Training in Critical Skills and Knowledge

Running an agribusiness (even a very small one!) can be expensive and risky. To increase an agriprenure’s chance for success, Farmers Guide (FG) offers training in skills and knowledge that minimize risk, maximize efficiency and productivity, and manage costs. Our workshops and courses cover the following topics and more:

Training

Land preparations

Soil and water testing, test results interpretation

Irrigation methods and systems

Manures and liquid feed application

Compost making

All about fertilizers

Crop and livestock diseases(cure and prevention)

Crop management

Weed control

Harvest/ post-harvest

Knowing your markets

Understanding crop seasons

Developing necessary maps and schedules

Ordering seeds & supplies

Equipment Training

Tractor Safety and basic operation

Basic equipment maintenance

Small tools for efficiency

Tractor based cultivation, seeding, weeding

Strategic Partnerships