Welcome to the AgriBioTech Non-Profit Company!
AgriBioTech is an innovative and inspirational non-profit company demonstrating that rural entrepreneurship can be achieved in alignment with environmental and economic sustainability.
Ideation, Incubation and Acceleration Programme:
Unemployed Rural Candidates (women, youth, graduates and people living with disabilities) are encouraged to invent/design, test, develop, and implement enterprises that require an indigenous or alternative plant, weed, invasive plant or ornamental plant or resource in its recipe, then build their value chains to include small-scale growers or sustainable wild harvesting.
Objectives
- To promote the development of sustainable rural livelihoods in South Africa;
- To develop and stimulate entrepreneurial development amongst rural youth, agricultural graduates and women living in rural areas throughout South Africa;
- To stimulate the expansion of rural livelihood diversification throughout South Africa;
- To develop niche, value-added and alternative products from indigenous resources, waste, weeds and underutilised resources available in the rural landscapes of South Africa;
Objectives cont.
- To test and verify the efficacy of the products developed from the resources identified above;
- To model the production or legal and sustainable wild harvesting of the resources required for the envisaged products.
- To assist in the sourcing of input and capital resources for the establishment of small manufacturing and value-adding businesses producing the products identified above;
- To provide training and mentoring of entrepreneurial beneficiaries to establish and operate the enterprises identified above, and also source external expertise as needed.
Objectives cont.
- To assist in branding, trademarking, patenting and registration of new, novel products developed by the beneficiaries of the company;
- To develop and maintain ethical and professional standards of business; and
- To assist the new businesses to comply with such reporting requirements as may be determined by the SARS Commissioner and other quality compliance as required by each business entity.
