Agriculture is the economic activity of producing crops in fields, forests, and animal husbandry. Agriculture has a broad meaning that involves the production systems of plants, forests, animal husbandry (such as goats, sheep, cattle), fish, birds (such as chickens, ducks and pigeons) etc.
Many people are involved in agriculture in one way or another, especially in developing countries. There are those who cultivate crops in order to get food. And the second group is those who farm or breed for business. All that is for the sake of earning and living a better life. This includes getting food, shelter, clothing, education, water and other important things for humans to live well.
Business
It means selling and/or buying in order to make a profit and meet the customer's wishes and expectations. There are many businesses in the world, for example: Legal and illegal businesses depending on the laws and procedures of the region or the relevant government. Illegal businesses may involve activities that the government has prohibited such as selling and buying drugs such as illegal alcohol, konyagi, biroba, mirungi, gong, cannabis, cocaine and other drugs.
There are also very good and legitimate businesses that bring in income for people in the world such as mineral trading, clothing trading, crops, various industrial products such as cars, airplanes, ships, boats, computers and many other things that you see in shops, kiosks , super market, hotel, stationary and places.
To love your work is to value it and protect it. Anyone who keeps their valuables at home is not easy to find leaving them outside, especially if the house does not have a gate and adequate protection. This shows that precious things need to be protected to be loved and cherished like gold and pearls are.
What is entrepreneurship now?
There are those who explain that it is a method or strategy or influence of the seller by asking the buyer to buy a product or service even if the buyer had no idea and intention to buy so that the seller gets a profit (Salim, FR).
In general, entrepreneurship is a state of using influence, creativity, extra intelligence and personal ability to successfully do something in life by making good use of existing opportunities. Entrepreneurship does not have to be in business, entrepreneurship can be in agriculture, entrepreneurship in the use of loan funds in schools for university students and many other things in life to get profit.
Purpose of Entrepreneurship.
❖ Self-employment
❖ Increase income
❖ Helping the community in providing community services
❖ Getting profit and success in general.
❖ Develop individual creativity and talents
❖ Increase happiness and freedom in planning tasks
❖ Use time well
❖ Investing and developing dreams in life
❖ Eliminate poverty
❖ To remove the slavery of thinking and narrow ideas.
❖ Lack of sufficient capital and technology
❖ Education on wealth management
❖ Fear in business
❖ Product markets
Employment.
Agriculture provides an opportunity for a person to be self-employed, to be employed or to hire people. There are professionals who are employed due to their fields to provide professional advice (consultancy), teaching, research or employment for ordinary laborers to do farm production activities etc. Statistics show that more than 65 percent of people get employment in agriculture directly or through other means (indirect). So there is an opportunity because people need food to eat, sell or feed animals (chickens, pigs, pigeons and others). This is a sensitive opportunity for secondary school and college graduates who are not working because they have not found official employment and are waiting to be hired.
Gross domestic product (GDP).
Along with other things, agriculture especially agriculture business is very useful to increase the domestic income by paying taxes to the government. When farmers cultivate lima for business, they pay tax, but when they cultivate for food or personal use, they often do not pay tax. So when people farm commercially, they benefit themselves but the government also benefits through taxes. For Tanania, agriculture contributes 30% to the domestic GDP, 2016.
Business growth.
Agribusiness is an activity that promotes business as a whole. Trade whether it is for products from other places outside of agriculture or from the farm such as fruits, vegetables, grains or commercial products such as cotton or sisal are due to agri-business. Without agricultural business, many businesses are stagnant. For example, there are many businessmen whose capital comes from profits from agriculture, lending to farmers or the business itself is agricultural products.
Industrial growth
The raw materials needed in many industries, especially in developing countries like Tanzania, come from the farm - in agriculture. Therefore, to develop industries, I have to increase the production power in agriculture. The produce from agriculture should satisfy the needs of industries and the needs of people such as food and other things. Along with increasing production, there is also a basic reason to look and consider the quality of the product. In order to consider this, farmers should get education and follow the initial steps in cultivation, fertilizing, weeding, development, care, transportation, packing or storage until the relevant consumer gets the load in the relevant product chain.
Availability of food
Another very big benefit of commercial agriculture is the availability of food. Obviously, not all people are farmers. There are people who work in an office or urban environment and do not use a plow. Basically, they are cultivated by other farmers, they have to buy food. If it is corn, rice, bananas, beans and other crops. In this, there is another who can cultivate and sell so that he can buy food and other necessities. For example, his crops were commercial.
Eliminate/reduce poverty.
There are many ways to eliminate, or reduce poverty for society or the government. One of the methods is through ensuring the availability of essential needs such as food in alternative ways. Farming gives one the confidence to have enough food in the near future. If the farmers are blessed to harvest if there are no terrible diseases that season, the rains are sufficient and the basic things are right, it is possible that they will harvest and get more, thus reducing poverty and poverty and living a better life.