Agribusiness Development Division is responsible in providing services for agribusiness development through the following roles:-

• To have effective agribusiness strategies that provides guidance to steer the agribusiness development process. Such support services and establishment policy and legislation mobilise stakeholders in the agribusiness sector and deliver market driven agri-food products through an accreditation process.
• To have dynamic public and private finance and investment programs that help to stimulate growth and expansion of the agribusiness sector.
• To fully utilise human resources according to their skills and develop necessary measures to upgrade staff capacity and capability so defined services shall be effectively delivered through an efficient organisational structure.
• To redirect agricultural program support to more effectively stimulate agribusiness activities without infringing on trade agreement obligations.
• To broaden the scope of the marketing function so that marketing intelligence is able to determine products that offer competitive and/or comparative advantage in domestic and foreign markets and their suitability for production/processing in Brunei; offering an efficient marketing information dissemination to our clients.
• To build a strong, competitive and expanding agribusiness community through training and capability building; and facilitating inter-dependent coordination, cooperation and communication among stakeholders.

The main functions of the Units under Agribusiness Development Division are:

• Marketing and Information Management – Collecting and analyzing marketing informations, doing marketing analysis on agriculture projects, disseminating local and international projects information in relations to agriculture, promoting agriculture investment, undergoing surveys and research on agriculture commodity, compiling, preparing and distributing annual agriculture statistics.

• Agribusiness Advisory – Encouraging active participation of agriculture entrepreneurs, facilitating agribusiness entrepreneurs for development and exploiting their potentials in the agribusiness sector, assisting agribusiness entrepreneurs competency through capacity building, creation of partnership and better communication, delivering advisory/consultancy services in relation to information and opportunities in agribusiness, fianancial assistance, and business networking in the agribusiness sector.

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