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4 produkter
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
787 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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 chapteIn 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.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
707 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
1 937 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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 Livelihoods 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 chapteIn 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.
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Engelska, 20126 378 kr
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High demographic pressure on land due to burgeoning human and livestock population in the country have led to large scale degradation of available natural resources, both in quantitative as well as qualitative terms. Degradation of natural resources is yet continuing and being aggravated due to continuous over-exploitation of soil, water and vegetation resources which is leading to frequent nutrient deficiencies, decline in soil health, in situ chemical degradation of soil, depleting water table and ground cover, loss of bio-diversity, water erosion (93.6 million ha), formation of ravines (2.51 million ha) and pollution of water bodies. As such, degradation in state of natural resources is leading to serious threats to the environmental quality and food security. Large land degradation in India (146.02 million ha) can be attributed due to a cafeteria of factors mainly the intensive agriculture; improper crop rotations; shifting cultivation; unscientific, arbitrary and non sustainable land management practices; excessive irrigation and salinity in unlined canal command areas; imbalances in fertilizer use and over exploitation of soil nutrients; excessive pumping of underground water; over grazing and grazing of forests; deforestation beyond permissible limits; forest fires; open cast mining; extension of agriculture on marginal, sloping and steep lands and socioeconomic factors mainly the poverty. This is a crucial and high time for reverting the process of degradation of natural resources through suitable region specific technological options; realistic planning, executions and monitoring and investments for catering interests related to the environment and food security concerns in the country. This book entitled “Conservation of Natural Resources for Food and Environmental Security” contains 43 chapters under seven major themes. This book deals with the status of natural resources; management and efficient utilization of water resources; conservation technologies for food and environmental security; livelihood security and watershed management; rehabilitation of problem soils; governance and policy issues for community empowerment and regional experiences and future thrust areas. The book is published out of chapters contributed by eminent scientists, scholars and officers having rich and valuable experience in the field of natural resource conservation and management for sustaining the environmental quality and food security to burgeoning population in India. We hope that this book will be highly valuable to the scientists, teachers, scholars, policy makers, managers and extension agencies working in the field of natural resource management in the country in the years to come.