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This book on Agri-business management: a training manual is prepared keeping in view the present demand of the scholars, researchers and policy makers who are engaged in the fields of agriculture and agri-business management. A few literature is availabe in this field to conduct the class on practical as well as theory for the trainees as well as for the students who are pursuing their degree programme at UG/PG/Ph.D. level. Keeping in view preparing a comprehensive training manual on Agri-Business Management of conduct various course/training on agri-business management by academicians, researcher and policy makers and it will be helpful for the students at UG/PG/Ph D level for their theory as well as inpractical especially in agri-business management.

Contents: Preface. 1. Methods of estimation of marketing costs and margins of agricultural commodities/Ram Singh, S.M. Feroze, D.K. Bishnoi and S.P. Saharan. 2. Opportunities for organic agriculture in North Eastern Hill region/Aditya Kumar Singh and Lal I.P. Ray. 3. Opportunities of entrepreneurship and agribusiness in animal sector/Suresh Kumar, Arundhati Purkayastha and Banita Devi. 4. Problems and prospects of Mushroom cultivation in North East India/Dipali Majumder. 5. Role of biotechnology in driving agriculture based economy: prospects and challenges for North Eastern India/Wricha Tyagi. 6. Entrepreneurship in farm mechanization in hill agriculture/Pradip Kumar Bora. 7. Value chain analysis in agribusiness: methodological issues/R.N. Barman. 8. Promoting agribusiness in the north Eastern region through high value horticultural crops/R.N. Barman. 9. Importance, Dimensions and scope of agribusiness/Debashis Sarkar. 10. Capital management in agribusiness/Debashis Sarkar. 11. The benefits of agri-food value chains: a case study of cassava value chains/A. Roy and A.K. Tripathy. 12. Market led extension: context and concept/A. Sarkar. 13. SMART agricultural marketing for livelihood security-prospects and opportunities/A.K. Mohanty, G.A.K. Kumar, A.K. Tripathi and A. Roy. 14. Agri-clinics and its role in agribusiness development: problems and prospects/A.K. Singha. 15. Small farm development in North Eastern region: potential and possibilities/Sudipta Paul. 16. Entrepreneurship in agriculture: problems and prospects/R.K. Talukdar. 17. Entrepreneurial venture and the agribusiness plan/Rajkumar Josmee Singh. 18. Extension strategies for agribusiness potential/R. Bordoloi. 19. Leadership for agribusiness mobilization/Amol K. Bhalerao. 20. Policy issues for sustainable growth of agriculture and agribusiness in the North Eastern states of India/A.K. Tripathi, A. Roy, D.S. Dkhar, D. Kumar and N.U. Singh. 21. Formation and management of producer’s groups and producer company/federations for harnessing the benefit of agribusiness/A. Roy, A.K. Tripathi, D. Kumar and D.S. Dkhar. 22. Sanitary and phyto-sanitary measures for improving efficiency of supply chain management/N.S. Azad Thakur. 23. Water marketing: a case study of Meghalaya/Lala I.P. Ray and Clarence G. Khonglah. 24. Assessment of alternative marketing strategies though design of experiments/Rajdeep Chakraborti and Sibaji Chakrabarti. 25. Basic statistics and exploratory data analysis in business enterprise/Arup Kr. Sharma. 26. Forecasting techniques in business management/Arup Kr. Sharma. 27. Strategies for statistical enquiry in business marketing/Arup Kr. Sharma. 28. Introduction to time series modeling/Ranjit Kumar Paul. 29. Role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in agricultural marketing/P. Mercy Nesa Rani. 30. Total quality management in business organizations/Arup Kr. Sharma. Index.