Assessment of incubators capacity building on agribusiness in Sudan

Abstract

The purpose of this paper was to assess the impact of incubation on growth of agribusiness in Africa. The target population for this paper was incubators based in Sudan. The research comprised of 160 youth incubators (from four States). Data was collected using structured questionnaires and interviews from the selected respondents. The finding showed that all the incubations reviewed had good facilities to conduct training. Most of the training offered by incubations were to increase the productivities and very few trainings on promotion of the business. These findings revealed that incubators in Sudan lacked critical knowledge to fully develop agribusiness owned by the youths into high profitable business. The findings confirmed that agribusiness incubators in Sudan ranked very low on business case skills, collaboration and partnership, analytical and problem-solving skills, financial fundamentals, team work and sales skills which are the core aspects of business growth. This study concludes that the significance of the business incubation on growth of youth agribusiness enterprises is directly proportion to capacity of the incubators. Based on the findings, there is need for incubators in Africa across all sectors to build their capacity to become effective in supporting startups.