What can you expect from this course?

Course content

    1. What you can expect from this course

    2. A little background to your instructor

    1. Difference between agriculture and gardening

    2. Invest in professional management

    3. Saving money on the wrong decision

    4. Management of risks

    5. Working out of the box

    6. Working in rural areas

    7. Working manually

    8. Hiring people

    9. Learning from mistakes

    10. Working with passion

    11. Being conservative

    1. Word of thanks

About this course

  • Free
  • 14 lessons
  • 0.5 hours of video content

Your Instructor...

Tropical Agronomist Thomas Kukovec

Thomas is a Tropical Agronomist, Field Biologist and Agro machinery Expert from Austria, currently based in The Gambia. In neighbouring Senegal, he co-owns and supervises a 30 ha farm near Thiès. As Export Director of the Austrian agricultural machinery manufacturer Technik-Plus in the MENA and Sub-Sahara Africa, he initiated the "Carbon Farming Africa" brand and shaped the "Conservation Farming" product line, where he also advises and provides technical and agronomic turn-key solutions to large farm projects throughout the ECOWAS subregion, including staff trainings and supervision of field agronomists.

He's consulting on some major private sector and government projects, with a particular focus on dry-subhumid and semi-arid agriculture, including crop protection, seed selection, conservation farming-, irrigation- and soil working techniques and conducts and manages field- and greenhouse trials, incl. post-harvest value-chain management, quality control, seed storage, food- and fruit processing.

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