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Roles of a farm manager.
- Gathering information e.g. market, labour trends and weather conditions.
- Decisions implementation/implementing farm decisions.
- Short term planning e.g. when to till the land, when to plant, harvest etc.
- Long term planning e.g. starting of a new enterprise.
- Detecting weakness in farm operations.
- Making comparison between his level of production and the set standards.
- Bearing risks.
- To hire and fire farm labour when need be and reward the workers appropriately.
- To raise the financial and other resources through savings or borrowing.
- To organize and supervise other factors of production such as labour, land and capital.
- Purchase inputs required for the farm business.
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