Contents: Preface. I. Stimulatory stage: 1. Entrepreneurship development in agriculture/J.P. Sharma and Nishi Sharma. 2. Micro enterprise development: an overview/Dipika Hajong and R.N. Padaria. 3. Resource appraisal for micro enterprise development in agriculture/Rashmi Singh and S.K. Dubey. II. Technological options: 4. Product identification and SWOT analysis/J.P. Sharma and Rashmi Singh. 5. Protected cultivation of horticultural crops/Balraj Singh. 6. High value vegetable cultivation: entrepreneurial avenues/A.D. Munshi. 7. Seed production: an entrepreneurial venture/B.S. Tomar and K. Vinod Kumar. 8. Food processing: an emerging option for micro enterprise promotion in agriculture/R.R. Sharma. 9. Poultry farming: profitable venture for entrepreneurs/R.K. Sharma. 10. Beekeeping an employment and income generating vocation for rural youth/R.N. Sharma. 11. Dairy production and processing as an enterprise: retrospect and prospects/Dalip K. Gosain. 12. Fisheries and aquaculture in India: perspective and prospective views/S.D. Singh. 13. Ration formulation for profitable dairy/Kusumakar Sharma, VB Chaturvedi and Rupasi Tiwari. 14. Post harvest handling of horticultural crops/R.K. Pal. 15. Value addition and processing opportunities in food processing/Devinder Dhingra. 16. Commercial avenues in floriculture for entrepreneurship/T. Janakiram and K.V. Prasad. 17. Plants nursery as a micro enterprise/Manish Srivastav and R. R. Sharma. 18. Vermicomposting enterprise development in rural areas/R.K. Sharma, K. Sharma, G.T. Gujar and J.K.S. Bhandari. 19. Entrepreneurship generation and livelihood security through livestock sector/M.C. Sharma and Rupasi Tiwari. 20. Breeds of livestock and their genetic improvement/M.C. Sharma and Rupasi Tiwari. 21. Entrepreneurship through pig farming in India/M.C. Sharma and Rupasi Tiwari. 22. Pigeonpea cajanus cajan L seed production as a potential micro enterprise for income augmentation: experiences of action research/Shantanu Kumar Dubey, S.K. Singh and Uma Sah. III. Enterprise management: 23. Understanding self help group dynamics/Premlata Singh and Nishi Sharma. 24. Concept of cooperatives and its scope in farmers capacity building/J.P.S. Dabas. 25. Impact evaluation of small scale agri enterprise: a case study of Mushroom and beekeeping enterprises/Rajinder Peshin. 26. Distance education: a support for micro enterprise promotion in agriculture/B.S. Hansra. 27. Marketing strategies for micro enterprise promotion/Ajit Kewalramani. 28. Good agricultural practices in relation to micro enterprise promotion/Arvind Pratap Singh. 29. NABARD supported promotional and developmental programmes farm and non farm sector/G.V. Sunil Kumar. 30. Commodity future trading at NCDEX/A. Lakshmikantha Reddy. 31. Approach to rural development: economy decentralization/Anil P. Joshi. 32. Financial management of agricultural projects/Pramod Kumar. 33. Micro credit: basic issues and strategies/R. Roy Burman and Shantanu Kumar Dubey. 34. Role of ministry of micro small and medium enterprises/H.S. Bisht.
The current multi pronged challenges of Indian agriculture demand for searching the viable alternative for restoring farmers and rural youths confidence in the agricultural vocation. Agri enterprises offer such opportunities to help the agrarian communities to enhance their farm productivity and enhance income from the per unit of land and time. The present book on Agro enterprises for rural development and Livelihood Security is an excellent synthesis of scholarly concepts cases and methodologies pertaining to enterprise promotion in agriculture and the related dimensions.
For the benefit of the readers the book has been divided into three segments. The first part deals with need for micro enterprise promotion in agriculture resource appraisal for micro enterprise development developing the self characteristics of potential entrepreneurs and related aspects. The major aim of this section is to explore unfreeze and broaden the cognitive and affective domain of the readers so that a desirable mindset among them may be created at the initial stage so that an effective learning may take place in the subsequent chapters.
In the second dimension of the book readers may find the description of varieties of technological options. These include the appropriate technologies and enterprises related to vegetable cultivation protected cultivation seed production food processing poultry farming bee keeping dairy production and processing fishery based enterprise livestock and piggery based technological options having entrepreneurial potential. The successful experiences of the agri entrepreneurs are also shared in this section.
The third and most important part of the book emphasizes on support system required to initiate and sustain the agri enterprise. These include necessary management related interventions trade export quality standards and other inter related issues which would definitely enable readers to comprehend how to be successful agri preneur. Besides the role of civil society organizations for economic independence in rural India has also been narrated. On line trading project monitoring and evaluation and related issue for agricultural commodities are deliberated by the renowned authorities of the above fields.
