successors
Investing in agricultural
Young agricultural entrepreneurs
are vital to a healthy, forward-
looking and successful Dutch
agricultural sector and Rabobank
invests in them via Rabo Opvolgers
Perspectief (Rabo Business Succes
sors' Perspective). This unique pro
gramme, launched in 2006, helps
young farmers who wish to take
over a business. Any entrepreneur
wishing to take over a business is
confronted with three questions:
what are my strengths?, can I
finance it? and how do I take over
the business? Rabo Opvolgers
Perspectief provides answers to
these questions. For example,
business successors are made
aware quite early in the takeover
procedure of their personal and
entrepreneurial qualities, what
that means to their future business
and in which areas they can deve
lop further. In a special training
course, they learn how to refine
their vision of themselves, their
business and their surroundings
and how to develop and execute a
strategy plan. Rabo Opvolgers
Perspectief has been developed
together with the Landbouw
Economisch Instituut (Agricultural
Economics Research Institute), the
Nederlands Agrarisch Jongeren
Kontakt (Dutch Agricultural Young
Farmers' Association) and De Boer
CS Organisation Consultants.
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