Department of Agribusiness

The Department of Agribusiness is the second youngest department in the College of Agriculture, Food and Sustainable Development (CAFSD). It was created in School Year 2015-2016  when the Bachelor of  Science Agribusiness (BSAB) program started to be offered. At present, there are four full-time faculty  in the department who handle the core and major courses of the BS Agribusiness Students and some Agriculture subjects.

Faculty Profile

Ms. Ethel Reynda M. Calivoso
Agribusiness, Management, and Entrepreneurship

Prof. Sheena Marie Joy P. Lidora
Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Marketing, Economics

Ms. Jessica M. Marata
Agribusiness

Mr. Jayson H. Tuliao
Agribusiness

BS in Agribusiness (BSAB)

The BSAB is a four-year program which aims to produce educated well-rounded professionals in agribusiness capable of meeting the national and global needs for highly trained managers, academians, researchers, extensionists and entrepreneurs. The curriculum is based on competency standards for agribusiness and focuses on creating and developing agricultural and entrepreneurial skills.  It is systems-oriented emphasizing on the interactions of all activities and factors affecting the manufacture and distribution of farm supplies; production activities on the farm; and the storage, processing, and distribution of farm commodities and items made from them, locally and globally within the context of the country’s biophysical, socio-cultural, political, economic environment and development needs. The program sets the goal of providing the needed quantity and quality of agribusiness professionals and practitioners to propel the growth and contribution of the agricultural sector to local, regional, and national development.  

Program Outcomes

The BSAB program sets the goal of producing agribusiness professionals who can:

1. apply theories, principles and practices of agribusiness and entrepreneurship to become technically competent agribusiness managers and/or entrepreneurs;
2. possess proper knowledge, skills and values in creating, managing and growing sustainable agribusiness;
3. employ appropriate qualitative and/or quantitative tools for problem solving and decision making in production, processing, marketing and management of agricultural enterprises; and
4. demonstrate the values of hardwork, honesty, patience, diligence and personal entrepreneurial competencies (PECs).

Curriculum

https://cafsd.mmsu.edu.ph/pdf/2/MMSU_-_BS_AGRIBUSINESS_CURRICULUM.pdf/view