'The book entitled Agri-Tech Startups: Preparation and Execution is important at this hour to leverage the full potential of technology and innovations to solve the problems in India\'s agriculture sector with public-private partnership and investment. Business incubators worldwide are bolstering breakthrough ideas, emerging industries, and entrepreneurs with requisite technical and financial services and support. This book has certainly been a selection by the time itself, not by the choice of the authors. The book has accommodated all possible innovative aspects of agri-tech start-ups and its management aspects and advances in agricultural development for assist the pro-poor farmers with its basic and classical contents. The characterization being: 1-The Start-ups, 2-Agril-tech Start-ups, 3-Innovative Agricultural Technology Start-ups; 4-Profitable Agri-business Ideas with small Read more
Foreword v Preface vii 1. The Startups 1 2. Agricultural Startup 49 3. Innovative Agricultural Technology Startups 101 4. Profitable Agribusiness Ideas with Small Investment 151 5. Agri-Tech Startups Business 177 References 217 Index 243
Professor (Dr.) Manas Mohan Adhikary, a retired Professor of Agricultural Extension, Faculty of Agriculture, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, West Bengal was attached with the profession of teaching, research and extension for about forty-five years. His immense potentiality of academic activities and capability to work with the people, sense of research and extension works helped him to serve as Vice-Chancellor, Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, Registrar, as well as Head of the Department of Agricultural Extension, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, West Bengal and also Director, Directorate of Extension Education in the same University. Besides that he served as Director, Directorate of Open and Distance Learning, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal (2019-2021). He also serves as an Adjunct Faculty in Central Agricultural University (CAU), Imphal, Manipur. Read more