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Success stories of Agripreneurs; Agriclinics and Agribusiness
Centres Scheme, 2003
Successful initiatives
by Agripreneurs trained under the Agriclinics and Agribusiness
Centres Scheme
Agriculture to
Agripreneurship: success stories of Agripreneurs, 2002
Documents successful initiatives by Agripreneurs
Vijay Gaatha of
Agripreneurs, 2002
Documents 24 success stories of agripreneurs with 40 different types
of projects
Gurukuls of Agripreneurship Development: a
profile, 2002
Profiles 26 training organizations across the country involved in
imparting training under the Agriclinics and Agribusiness Centres
scheme
Evaluation of
Participatory Adaptive Research Project by J.P. Singh, 2002
Examines the impact of the
Participatory Adaptive
Research Project (PAR) on the economy of the tribal farmers from
whom it is meant.findings reveal the knowledge and attitudes of the
farmers besides agro-economic changes due to the implementation of
the project.
Agriculture Marketing: Interventions & Innovations by K.H.Vedini,
2001
Presents a collection of 41 papers contributed during an
International convention on Agricultural Marketing held at MANAGE.
Focus was on Institutional framework, pricing management, policies
for agricultural marketing I the context of globalization, planning
and management of Agricultural Marketing.
Private Extension: Indian Experiences by P.Chandrashekara, 2001
Documents Indian experiences in Private extension and also provides
directions to beginners in private extension specially agripreneurs
who wish to go back to villages and try out these innovations. Gives
an overall view of private extension experiences in India, through
agribusiness companies, Farmers organizations and farmers
cooperatives, mass media, non-governmental organizations, linkages,
experiences and lessons. Policy makers, academicians, practitioners
especially agri-preneurs and agri-business companies, farmers and
other sakeholders in private extension would find this useful.
Private Extension in India ; Myths, Realities, Apprehensions and
Approaches by P.Chandra Shekara, 2001
Covers 16 papers presented during the first National seminar on
Private Extension held at MANAGE in July 2000. Answers questions
like: What is private extension? Who are the players? What are
their approaches? What are the advantages and disadvantages of
private extension? What kind of encouragement is needed to make
Private Extension effective?
Economic Evaluation of Participatory Adaptive Research Project by
J.P.Singh and M.A.Kareem 2001
The tribals are a downtrodden lot living in sheer destitution and
shying from the modern civilisation. Despite several efforts made by
the developmental agencies from time to time not much improvement
has been found in the overall standard of living.
The situation on the agricultural front was far more alarming
with hand to mouth existence, low or no marketable surplus and very
poor bargaining power. MANAGE has been identified as the agency to
take up the Participatory Adaptive Research Project (PAR). The
activities have been focussed to gain ground on the improvement of
the income through the interventions on the technology front not
only for agriculture but also in the livestock component as well as
natural resource management involving both range management and the
agro-forestry management the present investigation was undertaken to
study the impact of the PAR project on the tribal farmers. The study
would be helpful to researchers and decision makers in understanding
the complex interaction of ecological, economic and demographic
attributes arising out of the PAR programme.
Disbursement Procedure for World Funded Projects
(A Guide to Project Implementing Agencies), by T.Raghavendran.
MANAGE-NATP series 5, 2001
The book sets forth in detail the various processes involved in the
disbursement of Loan funds from World Bank, beginning from the stage
of expenditure incurred for the Project activities to the stage of
reimbursement to the project from the Loans funds sanctioned by
I.D.A (International Development Association) and IBRD
(International Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
Socio Economic Dynamics and Development Strategy for Participatory
Adaptive Research Project (PAR) by J.P.Singh, 2000
The Participatory Adaptive Research Project of the Andhra Pradesh
Tribal Welfare department aims to find out ways and means to develop
appropriate technologies for the complex and diversified systems for
agriculture in the tribal areas of Andhra Pradesh. This document
deals with the socio-economic status of tribal households in three
centers viz. Bhadrachalam, Rampachodavaram and Utnoor, which will
serve as baseline information of the project area at the time of
impact evaluation. Various performance indicators identified for the
purpose have been included in the report. An attempt is made to
focus on the possible interventions that can be made to give some
benefit to the tribal community in the short term. Also gives the
scope for long term planning.
Floriculture :from Theory to Practice (The Netherlands Experience)
by K.H.Vedini, 2000
This book presents a detailed understanding of the management of
floral industry in Netherlands mainly emphasizing on pre-production
market linkages and post-production market linkages, which broadly
includes raw material industry and the product market. The present
study explores the management aspects of the Netherlands floral
industry emphasizing on the auction platform, which is unique to the
study area.It focuses on three important aspects in general of the
Dutch floral industry .Firstly it explores the production and trade
structure of the study area, secondly the distribution pattern and
networks and thirdly the environmental issues. This gives an
understanding that the environmental concern is not only limited to
health but also gaining importance in the ornamental sector.
Economic Evaluation of Manchal Watershed by.J.P.Singh, 2000
This is a case study of Bandelmur Watershed Development project.
Focuses on the socio-economic characteristics of the households in
the project area, studies the impact of watershed development
programme on land use, cropping pattern, productivity and
production in the project area, impact on income and employment and
suggests suitable policy measures for scientific management of
watersheds.
Management Issues in Rainfed Agriculture in India by K.H.Vedini,
2000
The book emphasizes the importance of dryland to meet the needs of
the future. It is a comprehensive representation of the papers
presented at the National Symposium conducted on Rainfed Agriculture
at MANAGE during 7-9, June, 2000. This book is a synthesis of twenty
papers representing the original research findings on various
aspects of rainfed farming and its management. A few are concept
papers trying to project some of the issues associate with
prevailing scenario in rainfed economy.
Israel’s Agriculture
(Achievement through innovation and Technology) by.J.P.Singh,
P.Chandrasekhar,.TDS.Kumar and Lakshmi Murthy 2000
Procurement guidelines under National Agricultural Technology
Project.
MANAGE-NATP series 4, 2000
World Bank Guidelines regarding procurement, selection of
consultants and other documents. Strategic Research and
Extension Plan MANAGE-NATP series 3, 1999
Covers the what, why and how of strategic planning.
Agricultural Technology Management Agency MANAGE-NATP series 2,
1999.
NATP envisages testing of innovative institutional arrangements for
delivery of extension services from the district to the village
level. The concept of ATMA has been introduced as an autonomous
organization providing a flexible working environment with an
objective of integrating efforts of research, extension and all
other stakeholders at the district level to support the farmers
needs and interests through an integrated approach of strategic
plan. Focuses on the concept of ATMA and its functioning.
Technical Manual on Watershed Management (Series (II)
Resource,(III)Arable Cropping Systems, (IV) Non-Arable Cropping
Systems, (V) Non-farming Systems & Watershed in Retrospect
Conservation), 1999 J. Venkateswarulu
This manual enlists technologies relevant to different agro-climatic
regions in India. Focus is on people friendly, low cost
technologies, which are simple and easy to operate and maintain and
are based on local materials and indigenous knowledge. The manual is
divided into five parts dealing with Resource Inventorization,
Resource Conservation, Arable Cropping Systems, Non Arable farming
Systems and Watershed in retrospect.
Trainers' Training manual for Participatory Management on Watershed,
1999 G.R.Desai and S.K.Arora
The Trainer's manual works out the training curriculum for capacity
building of the project implementation agencies. The manual is based
on four modules dealing with (a) Common Guidelines and technical
issues, (b) Participatory Rural appraisal and Community
Organisations, (c) general management and project management skills
and (d) Administration and Accounts matters.
Common Principles for Watershed Development, 1999
Manual on Monitoring and Evaluation of Watershed Development
Hyderabad, MANAGE and NIRD, 1999
Innovations in Technology Dissemination of NATP. MANAGE-NATP series
1, 1998
MANAGE has a key role to play in the Innovations in Technology
Dissemination (ITD) component of the National Agricultural
Technology Proejct operating in 28 districts of 7 states in the
country. Introduces the ITD component.
Training for
Agriculture Development, by N.G.P. Rao, N.Perumal, S.L.Ghosal, 1997
This is a study (commissioned by Govt. of India) of the existing
training infrastructure and programmes in the field of agricultural
extension. The study team looks at the emerging scenario of
agricultural development in the context of macro-economic policy and
changing roles of agricultural research, extension and training
institutions. It projects likely changes in the roles and
responsibilities of various extension functionaries in the years to
come, identifies training needs for the revised roles and the manner
in which those needs should be met by the training infrastructure.
Focuses on training institutions and programmes to meet future
requirements and on the necessity of building effective training
institutions as learning organizations. A three-tier system with
backward and forward linkages to meet training needs is suggested
which comprises of (I) SAU/NARP-ICAR/ATC for subject matter and
programme content, (II) MANAGE/STI for planning, information
processing and management, (III) GSTC/KVK/FTC for oper;ational and
implementation skills at the grassroots level
Farmers' Participation in Agriculture Research and Extension Systems
by K.C.John, C.S.Rajan, D.K.Sharma, Charanjit Singh, S.K.Arora, 1997
The
study reviews the existing structure of agricultural extension and
research and their operations in different ecological zones,
proposes options for improving farmer participation in research and
extension and suggests measures to improve quality management and
cost effectiveness. It explores issues like reorganisation of
institutional processes to make them flexible and responsive,
approaches and methods that encourage functional participation
vis-à-vis empowerment of farmer organisations and the need to embed
the reforms into extension and research systems management. The
recommendations attempt to define a conceptual framework that
sketches strategic options most likely to make extension and
research systems farmer participatory and client accountable.
Considering the diverse agricultural situations, six models have
been proposed for research and extension linkages in these six
situations which include Assured rainfall and irrigated areas with
normal food crops; high value commercial agriculture regions;
rainfed crop based farming system; pastoral based farming systems in
semi-arid and arid zones; rainfed horticulture based farming systems
of the hilly regions and rainfed aquaculture based farming systems
of the coastal regions.
Fertiliser and product Guide, 1997
It was observed that fertilizer recommendations prescribed were
general (blanket) recommendations assuming N, P, K status of soil to
be medium without taking into account the individual field fertility
levels. Research indicated that yields obtained through generalised
recommendations could be obtained with lower levels o fertilisers
when applied on soil-test-crop-response basis, which would be more
balanced, efficient and profitable. This indicated a need to fine
tune dosage recommendations on the basis of soil tests, source and
availability of water and the type and duration of different
varieties of a crop. Thus a ready reckoner was compiled on
fertilizer requirement of crops under various soil-crop
variety-moisture-regime situations in terms of nutrients as well as
products. This is intended to be used as a training manual and as a
guidebook to extension workers, scientists and farmers for
calculating fertiliser nutrient and product requirement for various
crops under different situations. Crops covered include rice,
potato, groundnut, sunflower, tobacco, soybean, rapeseed and
mustard, chickpea, pigeon pea, sugarcane, pearl millet, cotton,
maize, jowar and wheat. The whole information is presented in the
form of graphs, charts and tables to make it easy to identify
solutions to specific requirements. The Guide is targeted at farm
advisory staff, extension workers, field officers of fertiliser
industry and policy makers.
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