Principles of Agricultural Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development

Agricultural entrepreneurship is an emerging field. It involves analyzing and understanding the strategies of agricultural entrepreneurs, particularly in response to the institutional changes and economic and technological disruptions to which the agricultural industry is subject. There is a need for a better understanding of agricultural entrepreneurship dynamics from the entrepreneurial theory viewpoint. A major change has been observed over the past thirty years in the agricultural markets and the trade of agricultural products across the globe. The world is growing and shifted from the national market to the international system of trading, which indicates that, the farmers with a plot of land competing with the huge industrial farmers of other nations in a single marketplace. The authorities need to formulate some new skills and this is beneficial in the process of commercialization also. The farmers need to grow the farm plans with the help of other individual farmers and also, working with the distinctive levels of farmer organizations from groups to the corporations. This will help analyze the areas of market, sales and financing and building various farming business opportunities with the clients. The expansion of remote areas is connected to the entrepreneurship rapidly and is regarded as the development that promotes as well as speed up the process of rural development. Furthermore, individuals and groups agree that there is an extensive need for the promotion of rural industries. Instead of offering employment opportunities to the people of remote areas, agricultural entrepreneurship is considered as one of the ways to improve the quality of life for families and individuals. This book may be expected to stimulate the interest in the field of agriculture and to think for reshaping the agriculture technology among scientist, researchers, users, curators, student and all those who are engaged and interested really to promote sustainable agriculture intensification for the benefit of human kind and next generation.