Agribusiness Management career , courses and colleges

All agriculture related sectors are interested for the industrialization. Related to the agricultural department AGRIBUSINESS MANAGEMENT degree has many job chances.   AGRIBUSINESS MANAGEMENT degree holders has vast job opportunities in many sectors like National commodity exchange, Chemical fertilizers, IT, Pharmaceuticals etc. Also have many chances in many of the multinational companies all around the world.

 The qualifications for applying this two year course are degree in Agriculture, Vetinary science, Diary science, fisheries etc.

AGRIBUSINESS MANAGEMENT Colleges

 For higher studies in Agri Business Management there are institutes like

1. National Institute of Extension Management in Hyderabad
2. Institute of rural management-Anand in Gujarat
3.  Institute of Agri Management in Rajasthan
4. Five Indian Institutes of Management Studies in India etc.

 The admission is based on the steps entrance examination, group discussion, and interview.  The word agriculture indicates plowing a field, planting seed, harvesting a crop, milking cows, or feeding livestock. Until recently, this was a fairly accurate picture. But to days’ agriculture is radically different.

Agriculture has evolved in to agribusiness and has become a vast and complex system that reaches for beyond the farm to include all those who are involved in bringing food and fiber to consumers. Agribusiness include not only those that farm the land but also the people and firms that provide the inputs (for ex. Seed, chemicals, credit etc.), process the output (for ex. Milk, grain, meat etc.), manufacture the food products (for ex. ice cream, bread, breakfast cereals etc.), and transport and sell the food products to consumers (for ex. restaurants, supermarkets).

Agribusiness system has undergone a rapid transformation as new industries have evolved and traditional farming operations have grown larger and more specialized. The transformation did not happen over night, but came slowly as a response to a variety of forces. Knowing something about how agribusiness came about makes it easier to understand how this system operates today and how it is likely to change in the future.

 Initially agriculture being the major venture it was easy to become a farmer, but productivity was low. Average farmer produced enough food to feed just four people. As a consequence most farmers were nearly totally self-sufficient. They produced most of the inputs they needed for production, such as seed, draft animals, feed and simple farm equipment. Farm families processed the commodities they grew to make their own food and clothing. They consumed or used just about everything they produced. The small amount of output not consumed on the farm was sold for cash. These items were used to feed and cloth the minor portion of the country’s population that lived in villages and cities. A few agricultural products made their way into the export market and were sold to buyers is other countries.

Farmers found it increasingly profitable to concentrate on production and began to purchase inputs they formerly made themselves. This trend enabled others to build business that focused on meeting the need for inputs used in production agriculture such as seed, Fencing, machinery and so on. These farms involved into the industries that make up the “agricultural inputs sector”. Input farms are major part of agribusiness and produce variety of technologically based products that account for approximately 75 per cent of all the inputs used in production agriculture.