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RIMAI Agribusiness School

Think like a farmer. Count like a banker.

A free 14-day business school for people who hold land and want it to make money, without first becoming agronomists. Learn on your phone, plan on your own hectares, and finish with a certified venture plan a lender can act on.

Start the Core Course freeChoose your MajorHow certification works
A small holding with a pack shed, crop rows, a loaded truck and the owner checking figures on a phonePACK SHED

Four pillars, one decision

Every lesson names the Dictionary terms it introduces, the Library sources it rests on and the calculator that turns it into a number on your land. Each pillar links to the other three.

Lessons

11 Core Course modules, then module 12: your Major and your Capstone on your own land.

12 modules

Dictionary

Every term the lessons use, in plain words, with a South African benchmark, a diagram and how to apply it.

186 entries

Library

The articles, value chain profiles and dated country data behind every lesson.

150 articles, 59 profiles, 80 country sets

Calculators

Eight key calculators live in your browser, and all of them in one Excel Toolkit keyed to your hectares, country and Major.

103 calculators

Twelve modules to a business you can start

RIMAI is a 14-day course of 12 modules: 11 Core Course modules, then module 12, where you choose your Major and complete your Capstone on it.

A farm veranda office under mopane trees where the owner works through the numbers
Modules 1 to 11

The Core Course

Eleven modules everyone takes, from land as capital to people, community and labour, taught against the South African benchmark and the four local markets.

Open the Core Course
A rural depot with grain silos, fruit crates, cattle and a truck being loadedDEPOT
Module 12

Your Major

Twenty commodity businesses across five faculties. You choose one, and it carries you from the industry map to the entry route. Graduates say they majored in it.

See the Majors
A venture plan with a pegged land map on the table in front of a bank
Module 12

Your Capstone

A costed venture plan on your Major for land you actually hold: what to farm, who buys, what it costs, who works it, how it is financed and what it returns.

Read the Capstone

Five markets, one benchmark

South Africa is the benchmark because it has built the institutions that make production pay. Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana and Namibia are the local reality. Every figure sits in one dated data layer with its year and source, and is refreshed each season.

Benchmark

South Africa

9,283,000 t

White maize crop

2026, NAMC

Local market

Zimbabwe

2,824,110 t

Maize harvested

2025/26, Cabinet briefing · LIB-C-ZW-Maize

Local market

Zambia

89,000 t

Farmed fish produced

2024, national budget · LIB-C-ZM-Aquaculture

Local market

Botswana

38,890,722

Broiler chicks produced

2025, Ministry of Lands and Agriculture · LIB-C-BW-PoultryOstrich

Local market

Namibia

N$561.3 million

Table grape exports, Q1

2026, NSA · LIB-C-NA-DeciduousFruitTableGrapes

Free to learn. Paid only to certify.

Every lesson, Dictionary entry, Library source and calculator is free. You pay only when you want your venture plan assessed and certified.

The certificate does not say you passed a quiz. It says you produced a bankable plan for real land, assessed against a fixed rubric, in your Major and your country. That is a document a bank, a co-operative or an off-taker can act on, and a standard banks, government, institutions and corporates can adopt.

CertificationRead the rubric
1Modules 1 to 11: the Core Course, free
Eleven modules on the business of farming: land as capital, finance, productivity, buyers, logistics, standards, trade, value-add, climate and water, industry structure, and people, community and labour. Read on your phone at your own pace.
2Module 12: choose your Major
Pick the commodity business you want to run from twenty Majors. Every Major runs the same six units and ends with the real entry route: the minimum capital, the choke points, who buys and who to call.
3Module 12: build your Capstone
Download the Toolkit, set your country and hectares, and work through the calculators. The Venture Plan Builder pulls your results onto one page and runs six readiness checks.
4Become a RIMAI Certified Agribusiness Professional
When all six checks pass, buy a certification code and submit. Your plan is assessed against a fixed rubric, and the certificate names your Major and your country, verifiable by reference code.

Twenty Majors in five faculties

Grains and Oilseeds

M1MaizeM2Small Grains and SorghumM3Oilseeds

Horticulture

M4CitrusM5Deciduous Fruit and Table GrapesM6Subtropical Fruit and NutsM7PotatoM8Fresh Vegetables

Livestock

M9BeefM10Sheep and GoatsM11PorkM12Poultry and OstrichM13Aquaculture

Fibre and Leather

M14Wool and MohairM15Cotton and HempM16Hides, Skins and Leather

Industrial and Beverage Crops

M17SugarM18Tea and CoffeeM19TobaccoM20Wine

Two hectares is enough to start.

Set your land, your country and your Major once. The school shows your progress and the calculators you need.

Set up my landDownload the Toolkit