Bhagalpur: The Bihar Agricultural University (BAU), at Sabour in Bhagalpur, has planned to showcase its business module for farmers. The aim is to provide optimum benefits to the farmers.
Referring to BAU’s business module, BAU vice chancellor, D R Singh, said there is a paradigm shift in people’s perception of farming as a business enterprise across the country. More people are taking farming as a business.
Developing ‘agrepreneurship’ by adopting innovative methods in farming, processes, and techniques in agriculture and its allied sectors, including ancillary livestock business, ensures better output and remuneration for farmers. This would transform the socio-economic conditions in rural India. Singh added that their business module will be such that banks too would come forward to finance the farmers.
“It is to shoulder this responsibility that we are preparing a business module for farmers,” added the VC.
The BAU’s business module includes crop diversification with sustainable farming, integrated climate friendly farming, mechanisation, marketing strategy and intelligence, value addition, post-harvest processing, new requirements for product quality, supply chain management, food security, and long shelf life of products. These are the core of their business module for high income to the farmers.
The BAU’s business module is also being worked out for branding, packaging, and marketing of farm produce, along with GI tags for the unique farm products of the region. The VC added that supply chain management of the raw materials at low cost and later selling the final products at good prices is vital for optimising the income of the farmers.
“We will also ensure the making of women agripreneurs in their business module,” he said. Cultivation of tropical fruits and vegetables, livestock, animal husbandry, aquaculture, along with traditional farming, is being incorporated into the BAU’s business module in the farming sector, the VC added.
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