Agricultural entrepreneurship or agripreneurship brings professionalization and commercialization to Indian agriculture. It boosts agribusiness in primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors by raising yields and productivity; creating employment; and improving livelihoods. Agripreneurship in food processing specifically generates economic benefits. Opportunities exist in diversified, high-tech, organic, and value-added farming as well as agro-industry including processing, manufacturing, inputs, and services. Allied activities like dairy, fisheries, and livestock are also important.

2. Agriculture is scaling new heights by focusing
on diversification,
farming, precision
value addition, hi-tech
and organic farming,
agribusiness etc
Agricultural based entrepreneurship or
Agripreneurship, brings professionalisation
and commercialisation in Indian agriculture,
boosting agribusiness in primary, secondary
and tertiary sectors
Agripreneurship in Food Processing Industry
brings immense benefits to the economy by
raising agricultural yields,
productivity, creating
enhancing
employment
opportunities and improving the standard of
living of people

3.  Increasing demand of organic and quality food
both in India and abroad
 Competitive advantages for many primary
production activities in agriculture. Ex: Rainfed
farming, livestock and wild craft production is
through low cost production technologies only.
 Private sector is willing to enter in to
agribusiness at all levels of operation.
 To reduce malnutrition as majority of women
and children in the country are mall nourished.

4.  Reducing cost of production
 New technologies
 opportunity for entrepreneurship in
agriculture

5.  On farm
Activities
 Off-Farm
Vocations
 Allied activities
of agriculture

6. (1) Agro produce processing units: These units do not
manufacture any new product. They merely process the
agriculture produce.
e.g., Rice mills, Dal mills, Decorticating mills etc.
(2) Agro produce manufacturing units: These units produce
entirely new products based on the agricultural produce as the
main raw material.
e.g., Sugar factories, Bakery, Strawboard units etc.
(3) Agro-inputs manufacturing units: These units produce
goods either for mechanization of agriculture or for increasing
productivity. E.g., Fertilizer manufacturing plants, insecticides
production units, food processing units, agricultural
implements etc.
(4) Agro-service centers: These include the workshops and
service centers for repairing and serving the agricultural
implements used in agriculture.

7.  cloth stitching,
 knitting, embroidery, cloth printing (tie and dye),
 carpet making, dari making, envelope and plastic
bag making,
 agarbatti making, candle making, rope making,
basket making,
 bamboo-work, distilled water making, oil
extraction, chalk making,
 biogas mechanic, electric wiring, mason, carpentry,
black smithy, solar mechanic, electrician, auto
mechanic, welding, pottery, and other rural crafts
etc..

8. This includes the activities like,
 Dairying,
 Sericulture,
 Goat rearing,
 Rabbit rearing,
 Floriculture,
 Fisheries,
 Shrimp farming,
 Poultry farming,
 Sheep rearing,

9. Positive impact:
 Sharp correction in fiscal deficit-GDP ratio and
reduced monetisation of deficits .
 New industrial policy fostered competition
 Real GDP growth averaged 5.7 per cent per
annum in the 1990s, which accelerated further to
7.3 per cent per annum in 2000s.
 There is gain in the share of services, including
construction, from 52 per cent to 65 per cent
during the period 1990s to 2010-11.

10.  Exports and imports of goods and services
have more than doubled from 23 per cent of
GDP in the 1990s to 50 per cent in the recent
period of 2009-11.
 Debt-GDP ratio has declined from 29% to
18.6%. & Debt-service ratio fell to 24.9% to
4.7% for the period of 1991-00 to 2009-11.
 The high growth was achieved in an
environment of price stability as headline ,
inflation dropped to an annual average of 5.5
per cent in the 2000s from 8.1 per cent to the
1990s.

11.  Agriculture as a percentage of real GDP
declined from 3.2% to 2.4%. There is a need to
increase agricultural productivity.
 Failed to address labour market inflexibity and
there by increasing concentration of labour
force in agricultural sector hence high
unemployment.
 It could not attract sufficient investment in
Infrastructure.
 Credit market has still remain an important
issue.