Writer Lexx Thornton
Agriculture and food industry entrepreneurs, note: A new center aimed at your special needs North Carolina has started at Agriculture and Technical State University.
A & T AUL ACTIVATIONAL INNOVATION CENTER (ABIC) Aims to help agriculture in A & T and helps to help agriculture while facilitating the development training of labor.
ABIC, September 16, September 17, September 17, on Wednesday, September 17, a free event with a free event in the university farm pavilion. This requires an opportunity for agricultural leaders, entrepreneurs and community partners to work, network and sources to develop.
The center will offer small-scale agricultural and related institutions to help businesses based on agriculture, which is in the center of national attention. The US Department of Agriculture, A & T A & T A & T Awarded $ 1.92 million in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, A & M University and West Virginia State University, awarded 1.92 million dollars to establish a center for the establishment of the Center.
The Agricultural and Agribusiness Sector of North Carolina, the NC House provides an economic impact on the state’s leading industry and every year. According to the USDA Economic Research Service, national, agricultural, food and related fields made $ 1.5 trillion in US-total domestic product.
The September conference is expected to participate in about 100 people, which will present a panel of entrepreneurs, exhibits and farm tours, success stories.
The event “will increase awareness and” the technical assistance will determine the efforts of cooperation to support limited access to the limited capacity, “said Kathleen Liang, PH.D., Kellogg, Kellogg, A & T Sustainable Agricultural Prof.
Liang and Michel Eleey, Candidate, Society and Economic Development Specialist in NC A & T, helps Jefferson-Moore conducting in Ph.DD, which led the project. Jefferson-Moore is the chairman of A & T A & T’s Agribusiness, Applied Economy and Agris.
“Most of the time, farmers see themselves as a business owner, they do not see themselves as farm entrepreneurs,” Liang said. “I want to see our center and see a new concept of the food industry included in technology, information, information, science, enterprises, agriculture, information and sciences.
The center will present both virtual and technical assistance in areas such as food, agricultural production, business planning, market development, financing, financing capabilities and workforce development.
“We have cooperating between the 1890th Land Grant Organization,” he said, Jefferson-Moore, the center and the central country expect additional universities.
“We are trying to make sure that the point of contact is,” he said, “To make sure they get the sources they are doing wherever they are.”
Students, in the center of the Virtual Entrepreneurship Academy, ABIC Meredith, ABIC Meredith, a doctor of philosophy, Alex Meredith. The Academy helps students to study and work to work in agricultural entrepreneurship.
Some students have already operated food-related institutions, Meredith said, and abic can help them as well as to buy food security certificate or connect to the trading cuisine.
Meredith sees ABIC as a means to help people not directly serving individuals and helping the following generations.
“If I can help small farmers effectively protect their jobs, then they stood financially. They do not have to find the last minute dollars to put a child through college,” he said.
