About the Book: Agri-Business and Rural Management (9Parts)
Agriculture is the back bone of Indian economy. Itprovidessignificant support
for economic growth and development ofthecountry. India is a worlds largest
agrarian economy. Now only52per cent of workforce is engaged in agriculture
sector. It isalsoseen that the investment in agriculture sector
isrecordingincreasing trends. In this era of globalization,liberalization
andprivatization the significance of agri-businessmanagement andrural
development has been well recognized and theinvestment inthese sectors has been
increasing regularly by the bigbusinesshouses and the Government. As a result of
thisemploymentopportunities in rural areas are increasing and
workforcemigrationto urban areas is also declining. Central/StateGovernments
arerunning a number of programmes aiming atagricultural and ruraldevelopment,
and alleviation of