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Agripreneurship Development As a Tool to Upliftment of Agriculture See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275152722 Agripreneurship Development as a Tool to Upliftment of Agriculture Article · March 2014 CITATIONS READS 9 4,712 5 authors, including: Shoji Lal Bairwa Kerobim Lakra Dr. Kalam Agricultural College, Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour Institute of Agricultural Sciences 66 PUBLICATIONS 56 CITATIONS 29 PUBLICATIONS 32 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE SEE PROFILE Saket Kushwaha Lokesh Kumar Meena Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Agriculture University Kota Rajasthan India 20 PUBLICATIONS 100 CITATIONS 67 PUBLICATIONS 60 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE SEE PROFILE Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects: Boonk on Agricultural Marketing View project KISAN BUSINESS SCHOOL (KBS) View project All content following this page was uploaded by Saket Kushwaha on 19 April 2015. The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, Volume 4, Issue 3, March 2014 1 ISSN 2250-3153 Agripreneurship Development as a Tool to Upliftment of Agriculture Shoji Lal Bairwa , Kerobim Lakra, S. Kushwaha , L. K. Meena and Pravin Kumar Department of Agricultural Economics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005 - (India) Abstract- A shift from agriculture to agribusiness is an essential business and with the leadership and managerial skills necessary pathway to revitalize Indian agriculture and to make more for achieving those goals. In the face of growing unemployment attractive and profitable venture. Agripreneurship have the and poverty in rural areas and slow growth of agriculture there is potential to contribute to a range of social and economic need of entrepreneurship in agriculture for more productivity and development such as employment generation, income generation, profitability of agriculture. The Agripreneurship program is poverty reduction and improvements in nutrition, health and necessary to develop entrepreneurs and management workforce overall food security in the national economy. Agripreneurship to cater agricultural Industry across the world (Bairwa et al., has potential to generate growth, diversifying income, providing 2014b). Agripreneurship is greatly influenced mainly by the widespread employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in economic situation, education and culture (Singh, 2013). rural areas. This paper mainly focused on basic concepts of agripreneurship, entrepreneurship skills, and needs of agripreneurship development in India along with major reason II. BASIC TERMINOLOGY RELATED WITH AGRIPRENEURSHIP for promoting agripreneurship development in country. DEVELOPMENT 1- Agripreneurs – in general, agripreneurs should be proactive, Index Terms- Agripreneurship, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship curious, determined, persistence, visionary, hard working, Skills, Potential areas, Employment Generation, Poverty honest, integrity with strong management and organizational Reduction and Agribusiness. skills. Agripreneurs also known as entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs may be defined as innovators who drive change in the economy by serving new markets or creating I. INTRODUCTION new ways of doing things. Thus, an agripreneurs may be ndian economy is basically agrarian economy. On 2.4 percent someone who undertakes a variety of activities in agriculture Iof world land India is managing 17.5 percent of world sector in order to be an entrepreneur. population. At the time of independence, more than half of the 2- Agripreneurship – Agripreneurship is the profitable marriage national income was contributed by agriculture along with more of agriculture and entrepreneurship. Agripreneurship turn than 70 percent of total population was dependent on agriculture your farm into an agribusiness. The term Agripreneurship is (Pandey, 2013). Agriculture and allied sectors are considered to synonym with entrepreneurship in agriculture and refers to be mainstay of the Indian economy because these are important agribusiness establishment in agriculture and allied sector. sources of raw materials for industries and they demands for 3- Agriclinics – these are envisaged to provide expert advice many industrial products particularly fertilizers, pesticides, and services to farmers on technology, cropping practices, agriculture implements and a variety of consumer goods (Bairwa protection from pests and diseases, market trends, prices of et al., 2014a). Due to the changing socio, economic, political, various crops in the markets and also clinical services for environmental and cultural dimensions over the world, farmers’ animal health which would enhance productivity of and nations’ options for survival and for sustainably ensuring crops/animals and increased income to farmers (Global success in changing their respective economic environments has Agrisystem, 2010). become increasingly critical. It is also worth noting that the 4- Agribusiness Centres – these are envisaged to provide farm emergence of the free market economies globally has resulted in equipments on hire, sale of inputs and other services.These the development of a new spirit of enterprise “Agripreneurship” centres will provide a package of input facilities; and the increased individual need for responsibility for running consultancy and other services with the aim of strengthen their own businesses (Alex, 2011). Entrepreneurship is connected transfer of technology and extension services and also with finding ways and means to create and develop a profitable provide self employment opportunities to technically trained farm business. The term The terms, entrepreneurship and persons (Chandra shekara, 2003). agripreneurship are frequently used in the context of education and small business formation in agriculture. Dollinger (2003) defines entrepreneurship in agriculture as the creation of III. NEED OF AGRIPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT innovative economic organization for the purpose of growth or Since the inception of New Economic Reforms, adoption of gain under conditions of risk and uncertainty in agriculture. Gray liberalization, privatization and globalization (LPG) and world (2002) on the other hand defines an entrepreneur as an individual trade organization (WTO) in 1992 – 95, it is expected that rural who manages a business with the intention of expanding the area will grow at par with urban area. Performance of agriculture www.ijsrp.org International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, Volume 4, Issue 3, March 2014 2 ISSN 2250-3153 during first phase of economic reforms till 1998 remained enterprising personal characteristics. Thus, management skills driving force for this notion among all the spheres of academia, are the complete package of skills that a farmer would use in administration and government (Singh, 2013). However, things order to develop the farm business. Kallio and Kola (1999) in a went on different path in the later years and performance of study of farmers in Finland attempted to determine what factors agriculture has not remained satisfactory. Till recently, gave farmers competitive advantage over other farmers suggest agriculture used to be treated as just an activity of land tilling and that there are seven characteristics of a successful farm and crop harvesting but growing waste land, depleting natural farmer (1) profitable production seemed to be associated with resources, growing migration by rural youth to urban areas, continuous evaluation of production, incomes and expenditures negative perception of the children of farmers towards farming, (2) constant development of cognitive and professional skills i.e. and emerging technologies in agriculture have necessitated Continual Professional Development (CPD) (3)They benefit redesigning of agricultural activities. Applying the thought and from a positive work ethic (4) goal-oriented operation, i.e., the practice of entrepreneurship in the field of agriculture generates ability to set goals, to reach them and to set new ones (5) wide range of economic benefits like – increased agri utilization of recent information that is relevant for the individual productivity, creation of new business ventures, new Jobs, farmer’s own circumstances and the needs of the farm (6) innovative products and services, development of rural areas and favourable starting points for the enterprise, meaning good increased wealth. Traditional farmers who are unaware of condition of machinery, buildings, land and an appropriate scientific agriculture and effective agri management systems are balance between pricing of product and investments in unable to cope up with delaying monsoons, drought, crop debts, production (7) cooperation with others in the supply chain. fake seeds and shortage of fertilizer, as a result resort to Schiebel (2002) reported that successful farmers differ from committing suicide. The managerial, technical and innovative others in terms of three personality traits. They have more belief skills of entrepreneurship applied in the field of agriculture many in their ability to control events, problem-solving abilities and yield positive results and a well trained agripreneurs may become social initiative. Agripreneurs is a dynamic business manager a role model to all such disheartened farmers. Sah (2009) state performing various agri based activities using different resources that developing entrepreneurs in agriculture will solve the entire viz. physical resources, financial resources, human resources and
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