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Agriculture for Secondary Schools

Step 2: Choose the suitable kind of livestock enterprise. If you will engage in
primary production of livestock products, you have to choose the suitable type and
breed for your enterprise.

Step 3: Determine your production targets and the expected revenue. This is done by
multiplying what has to be sold by the average selling price.

Step 4: Match the production targets of the chosen enterprise to the market. This is
important so as to ensure that you produce what you can sell.

Step 5: Identify all required production resources including land, labour, capital
resources and inputs for the chosen livestock enterprise with their estimates.

Step 6: Determine what and when to perform all the activities involved in the
production of the targeted produce/products of the selected livestock enterprise. If
your intention is primary production of livestock products, activities to be considered
are such as provision of proper housing, proper control of livestock diseases and
parasites, proper feeding of livestock, proper breeding as well as proper handling,
processing/value addition and marketing of produce/products. If your enterprise
intention is secondary or tertiary production, the activities will depend on nature of
a particular segment of livestock production value chain you have chosen.

Step 7: Draw the budget for both fixed and variable costs required to carry out
the enterprise. This has to be aligned with the estimates for land, labour, capital
resources and inputs as well as costs for running activities already determined in
step 5 and 6.

Step 8: Examine the total costs versus total projected revenues so as to determine the
profitability of the selected livestock enterprise(s).

Step 9: Determine how production in the chosen livestock enterprise will be financed.

Step 10: Identify the kinds of records that are important for the chosen livestock
enterprise and set schedule and templates for each kind of record.

Step 11: Determine how to get all the identified resources in place and let all the
determined activities done.

Step 12: Evaluate the plan by revisiting it to see if it is the best plan, given the
prevailing conditions.

Step 13: Implement the plan. This involves putting the plan into action so as to
realise what was intended.

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