Kāds bija risinājums/problēma?

Observations shows that small agricultural businesses are lacking targeted long-term support in business development and transition to next level of growth. Existing business incubators support and advise all start-ups except agricultural businesses. As oldest (established on 1991) and largest advisory service provider in Latvia who is working with all type of agriculture businesses, Latvijas Lauku konsultāciju un izglītības centrs (LRATC) has noticed that small agricultural businesses have short-term thinking and many of them are not able to set up long-term vision, targets and do not have a know-how in using only those resources they are obtaining. After small scale experiments LRATC decided to start pilot project of incubator for agricultural businesses. The aim of the incubator is to provide comprehensive support to small and medium agricultural businesses in order to broaden their level of knowledge and awareness about existing technical solutions, sector innovations, market needs and possibilities. To reach the main objective of the incubation process – support agricultural businesses in their development and growth, thorough coaching is provided.

Kā jūs atrisinājāt problēmu?

As the largest agricultural advisory service provider LRATC finds it crucial to help small and medium agricultural businesses to find a ways to become more profitable by working more efficiently, environmental friendly, finding innovative solutions, and l

Kas ir novatorisks jūsu praktiskajā gadījumā?

Innovation is the collaborative method itself, and attracting a business couch to every client/ businessmen in the project. All expert advice is provided individually and is subordinated to the development and vision of the farmer’s business, taking into

Kādi ir veiksmes faktori problēmas risināšanā?

The success factor is the individual approach, a targeted support method (with a deeper view as before), long-term cooperation with each farmer, and experts involvement and advising which arrives directly from the overall farmer’s vision of the outcome (c

Gūtās mācības

1) As the method is new, it is hard to convince farmers that they need the incubation process, that it will bring more positive aspects than negative.

2) Farmers are skeptical and are not ready for this method. They are not ready to admit that they lack knowledge in building and running successful agricultural business.

3) It is hard for clients (and experts as well) that they cannot see the immediate results, as sometimes it is just confidence of new point of view they have obtained. These results are not measurable. Farmer discovers that something has shifted only after a while.

4) It is hard to build a trust among client and experts/ coaches. If the first impression is bad client starts hiding important information about the existing situation and it is nearly impossible to provide targeted help.

5) It takes time to set up experts team and get it working smoothly. They need to taught how to work in one team and trust each other.

6) Experts need to be trained in coaching methods.

7) It takes time to change a habits and thinking.

Kāda loma ir konsultantam vai konsultatīvajam dienestam ar praktisko lietu?

The Advisory Service is the creator of a method and incubator, which both addresses and motivates farmers to participate in the project and leads the whole project, and provides business coaches and part of experts.

Vai jūsu pieeja var tikt pārnesta un/vai pielāgota citiem jauninājumu izaicinājumiem un reģioniem?

Jā

Paredzamā nododamība mērogā no 1 Ļoti svarīga būs arī Štīrijas Lauksaimniecības kameras loma pēc projekta beigām, lai rezultātus izplatītu pēc iespējas plašāk 5

(kur 1 ir viegli un 5 ļoti grūti)

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Janis Rudzutaks

janis.rudzutaks@llkc.lv

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