Agri-Business Management

The book is divided into seven parts of introduction to management, agribusiness, functions of management, functional areas of management, management information system, getting started, government policies and programs for management. The first part deals with introduction to management and also explains management thinking, management principles and approaches to managing business. The second part analyses all aspects of agri-business, small business and entrepreneurship development. The third part explains all functions of management and has separate chapter for planning, organizing, staffing, directing, performance evaluation and control. The fourth part deals elaborately with functional areas of management and covers important topics like plant layout, production planning and control, total quality management, marketing mix, market planning and environment, working capital management and capital budgeting, financial statements, project cycle and panning tools. The next part deals with principles, characteristics, benefits, categories and design of management information system. The sixth part on getting started provide deep insight into the issue of starting of new business or starting of existing business and explores the case of agricultural inputs marketing firms and agro-processing firms. The last part deals with government programs for agribusiness, food safety, food quality standards and food laws.  Thus all aspects of basic and applied theories of agri-business management are dealt in this book along with case studies and illustrations in logical sequence an apt manner.