“He, who is in the business of agriculture,”

An Agri-enterprise is any business in the agricultural industry, which includes production of agriculture, food, natural fiber, the environment and natural resources.

Agribusiness includes the producing of any food item (Food grain – Fruits – Vegetables- Flowers), processing, and supply of agricultural goods which range from Corn to Cornflake, Fruits to Fruit juice and of course Cotton to Cloth.

Apart from these produce ,by products of farming like fuels derived from farm waste and farming equipment, machinery, chemicals etc., can also be included in Agri.Business.

In 21st century even Information Communication Technology (ICT) can also be included in Agri Business – Kisan kiosk, Krishi related web site, Agri. Business portals and many more. For Agri. Business successful farmers should produce what the market wants and not at which farmer is good / capable of producing Agriculture item .Today Science & technology i.e. ICI,Green House, Sprinklers / Drip irrigation, Tissue culture etc. is playing crucial role in Agriculture farm produce.

Day by day, as population is increasing, Food consumption in India is increasing. Government of India from several decades, making efforts to overcome weaknesses in the agricultural sector like over-dependence on monsoon, which is resulting in continuous increasing of Agriculture produce.

The table on next page will show how fast food consumption is increasing in India. This is main reason for entrepreneur to enter in the field of Agri. Entrepreneurship.

Cost benefit, profit and quality can be added in Agri.Output by way of Entrepreneurship and management, that dominates resource and its effective utilization, systematic social change, availability of support, self confidence and of course motivation.

A right kind of knowledge and managerial soft skill can be provided through entrepreneurship. In view of World Trade Organisation (WTO) and General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT) agreement, Indian farmer and farming has to change.



Today agriculture sector has achieved commercial importance and has tremendous potential of being one of the powerful sectors contributing to nation‟s GDP.

Apart from Government initiative, Public Private Partnership and farmers organizations have contributed to the agricultural growth. At present Agribusiness education is one of the promising qualifications, which has made it possible to manage Agriculture sector as a professional enterprise like other sectors such as Automobile, Engineering, Information Technology, Textile etc.

1. MEADOWS
2. ORCHARDS
3. ARABLE
There are 3 types of land so far agriculture is concern MEADOWS – where the grass is growing automatically (naturally) this land is used for grazing of live stock. Second is ORCHARDS – where there are permanent crops is grown for example fruit plants, and third ARABLE land – where annual crops such as cereals, cotton, potatoes and other vegetables and food grains are grown, this Arable land is called FALLOW land which means temporarily uncultivated land. Agriculture sector can be divided into main two segments (1) Farming / Pre harvest (2) Post harvest segment so far, Entrepreneurial opportunities / Business opportunities in Agri Sector are concern.