Agric Entrepreneurship Community Program

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Agric Entrepreneurship Community Program

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FUNIC's Agricultural Entrepreneurship Community Program(AGREC) is a program designed d to equip you with an Entrepreneurial Mindset and food transformation skills to set you off as a successful young Entrepreneur in the food and beverage sector.

Every year in Cameroon, tons of agricultural produce end up as huge heaps of garbage.

Grown with deep love and devotion, these fruits, vegetables, and other crops litter our streets, while the farmers continue to struggle.

Experts say the transformation of agricultural produce is the best solution to this problem. This is why AGREC was designed by experts in Business, Industry, and Agriculture.

AGREC is the most innovative and the only Tuition -FREE Program in the Republic of Cameroon that takes Business Students and makes them Food and Beverage Entrepreneurs.

Held each year under the auspices of the Minister of Higher Education, with institutional support from the Ministries of Agriculture and Rural development and Small and Medium sized enterprises, Social Economy and Handicrafts, AGREC has become the reference in Agricultural Entrepreneurship in Cameroon.

The Program:

AGREC is a hands-on program that is NOT an Agricultural program, but rather a Business Management program that exposes students to the transformation of Agricultural yields and Entrepreneurship. The goal is to raise young Entrepreneurs in the food and beverage sector.

Duration:

AGREC targets two groups of young people:

  1. Young people straight from high school who are looking at picking up skills in food and beverage while studying for the State-organized Higher National Diploma program in any field. This option has as duration 2 years.
  2. Any African who wishes to acquire skills in Food and Beverage. The only requirement is to be able to read and write. This option has as duration 3 months.

Tuition Fees:

This is a tuition-Free program. The only costs incurred by students are a processing and material fee of 50000FCFA.

Trainers:

While students are taught Business courses by industry experts and university Professors, they are taught Agricultural value chain by experts from IRAD, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, and foreign experts.

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