Workforce Recruitment For African Agribusinesses Made Easy.

Agricultural human resource management practice has had a history of problematic, non-participatory and unrepresentative employment relations due to high power distance, inequality and a patriarchal system in the wider society that shapes organizational practices.

It is an undeniable fact that the Covid-19 crisis has increased the need to up-skill and retrain agricultural talents in order to help agribusinesses manage their agribusiness productivity more efficiently and also improve the chance of business expansion. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, a huge need for skilled agricultural talents was recorded by agribusiness in Africa who were unable to meet the demand for food. Now, as the world recovers, the need to up-skill and recruit capable workforce is one of the top priority needs of agribusinesses, because a mistake in making the wrong hiring decision might lead to a complete extinction of an agribusiness struggling to recover from the negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The human resource department is responsible for recruitment, training and development of needed personnel in other sectors of the economy, but in the agricultural sector, hiring is done by contacting relatives or friends to suggest potential farm workers, who are mostly uneducated and unskilled. With the growth in digital and formal agribusiness management solutions, hiring of agricultural talents through human resource companies is gradually gaining ground in Africa -especially amongst medium to large scale agribusinesses.

Unfortunately, due to the uniqueness of the African agricultural sector, the human resource experts are faced with the problem of selecting and acquiring the right talent for agribusinesses.

The difficulty in recruiting a skilled agricultural workforce could be linked to challenges like poor learning and training curriculums in Africa, poor access to quality agricultural training platforms and the inability of agribusinesses to pay skilled talents.

Agribusinesses can not also afford the high cost of internally training their workforce hence there is a need for human resource experts and companies that can support in recruiting top agricultural talents for agribusinesses.

The need to fix these challenges at grassroots can not be over emphasized.

AgroHive, Africa's first digital Human Resource and agribusiness management company is focused on bridging the skills and talent hiring gaps in Africa.

We are ready to help boost food production by upskilling Africa's agricultural talents with the skills and knowledge needed to enhance productivity.

Our digital human resource platform is designed to ease the stress agribusinesses go through each time they want to recruit talents.

Visit www.agrohive.co to find out ways you can get upskilled or hire talents from us.