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Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Preface. About the book. About the authors. 1. Gender concept scenario and issues. 2. Engendering agri horti livestock enterprises the approach and planning. 3. Access and entitlement to social benefits some case studies in global scale. 4. Women and horticultural enterprises. 5. Gender implications in homestead vegetable farming system. 6. Gender issues in fruit culture. 7. Women contribution in agriculture with special reference to flowers. 8. Post harvest management for generating livelihood and income for women. 9. Gender in livestock and fishery. 10. Gender issues in fisheries the State of Art and future strategies. References. Gender is a social construct while sex is the biological one. The ancient agriculture got off to a start since 11 000 years back contributed by the women who had been in social responsibility of caring the seeds nurturing the seedlings and processing the biological produce to feed the human civilization and animal communities domesticated for supporting myriads of social functions. The stepwise regression of the access and entitlement of women to the return of production function in agri horti arena is a matter of concern although the contribution made to the purpose has been increasing with the on foot of agri horti business along the nation and across the world. The proposed book would seriously deal with the better understanding of gender issues in terms of Gender concept gender analysis participatory gender planning drudgery analysis livelihood cycle and daily routines gender participation in horticultural and agricultural operations success stories of enterprises gender friendly agri horti enterprises access and entitlement to social benefits micro enterprise management capacity building and gender mainstreaming engendering agri horti enterprises in changing global perspectives future strategies for gender improvement etc. While 70% of the contribution is made for production and 80% of the contributions made in processing part in both agriculture and horticultural enterprises the women are still refrained from enjoying the benefits of technology and its application of enterprise and its profitability. Still there are serious undulations in different levels and grades of participation in other words participation in operation participation in management and participation in decision making components of the entire system of social production. The proposed book Gender Issues in Agri Horti Enterprises by Prof. S.K. Acharya and Dr. A.B. Sharangi to our mind and feelings shall be of immense utility to the scholars scientists and professionals of social sciences policy makers management sciences development studies and also for professionals and teachers working and engaged in universities colleges NGOs corporate houses government sectors to cultivate the text of the book for both unique and general purpose. The book has already been pledged to be contributed by eminent professors and scholars of national and international fame. 160 pp.…

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Hardcover. Condition: New. Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Citation and Related Literature. 3. Theoretical Orientation. 4. Social Ecology and Setting. 5. Research Methodology. 6. Empirical Studies : Part A. 7. Empirical Studies : Part B. 8. Conclusion. 9. Future Scope of the Study. Bibliography Annexures. Index. This book offers a unique cultivation of mind as to how we can go for stewardship and conservation policy and intervention for small farm reality. It has gone far beyond the romanticized farm stewardship, for bigger holding sizes, say more than one hectare of land, yet to take account the feasibility of stewardship operations for tiny holdings, 1-1.5 hectares as predominant in most of the Asian countries based on hard evidences. While American and European farms are mostly belonging to consolidated and big size holdings, Asian part of global agriculture has been coercive in the form of soil erosion, water contamination and dwindling farm income, which are mostly due to marginalization and impoverishment of both income and livelihood from farm. This is really a difficult task, of course is of huge scholastic interest, for making the farmers understand that through proper stewardship and conservation interventions the invaluable resources like land, water and biodiversity need to be protected and put to constant regenerating practices. …

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Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Foreword. About the book. About the authors. 1. Introduction. 2. Management and motivations. 3. Supply chain management/concept of management. 4. Logical framework analysis. 5. Information communication technology. 6. Marketing management process and issues. 7. Concept of quality management in horticulture. 8. Quality management of fruit crops. 9. Quality in vegetable production. 10. Global scenario of cut flower production and quality improvement through manipulating senescence processes at physiological and molecular level. 11. Quality issues on spices. 12. Value addition of spice with special reference to quality. 13. Quality management of plantation groups. 14. Quality pickles. 15. Post harvest quality management of fruits and vegetables. 16. Conclusion. Glossary. Annexure. Bibliography. Subject index. In the changing global scenario the issue of quality and safety of agricultural as well as horticultural produces has earned tremendous importance. The volume of biomass production has got little to do with the generation of income and livelihood unless it is being implanted and impregnated with desired attributes for becoming befitting in the vast and changing demand system encompassing both fiscal and international market. So the book as designed would be of immense utility to the students of agriculture horticulture and allied aspects to the extension professionals corporate houses academicians researchers as well as micro entrepreneurs. 360 pp.…

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Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Foreword. Preface. 1. Floriculture the fast emerging domain. 2. Review of literature the reality and retrospect. 3. The research tools and setting on studying floricultural enterprises. 4. Knowledge practice gap in floriculture enterprises the factors and perspectives. 5. Technology gap and floriculture enterprises the areas of focus and task ahead. Bibliography. Appendix. The blossoms of Indian economy are increasingly finding her roots into the valley of floriculture. Winter and summer the autumn of the spring all cause the buds bloom stretch the petals out and make the fragrance diffuse beyond the fence. So also the economy of floriculture in India has its seasonality of gain and loss upsurge and decadence but beyond the livelihoods of teeming populace are organically linked to these mega enterprises. Nevertheless the cultural and social roots of floriculture has its historical as well as economical dimension projecting across the protractile period. While small countries like Columbia Holland Korea Israel Thailand etc are dominating in the global market to the tune of 30 70 per cent the contribution from India to this special area of economy is very poor might be below one per cent even. The reasons for dismal contribution as identified are non commercial attitude of the farmers huge technology gap poor supply chain lack of training weak delivery system lack of peoples participation poor infrastructures for storing and processing and inadequate quality attainment for getting globally competitive. This book has been designed based on a research work and supported by some relevant preambles as well as literatures so much so to cater the need of management professionals business entrepreneurs government and NGO personnel stakeholders associated with National Horticultural Mission and scores of scholars scientists and teachers candidly associated with academic entrepreneurial and heuristic cultivation of this vastly emerging areas of floriculture enterprise and research. 168 pp.…

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Contents Prologue 1 Precision Agriculture The approach and method for augmenting productivity with ecological issuesSK Acharya 2 Concept of enterprise entrepreneurship and enterprise management in agri-horti enterprisesSK Acharya 3 Agriculture and agribusiness Meanders of growthSK Acharya 4 ICT The concept and application in business management S Acharya A Biswas and SK Acharya 5 Value addition precision and supply chain management in agri-horti enterpriseSK Acharya 6 Vegetables The perspectives and prospect of value additionMK Pandit 7 Value addition to enterprises of spicesAB Sharangi and N Chattopadhyay 8 Concept of value addition in horticultural cropsBC Saha 9 Value addition in fruits and vegetable wastesSC Jana 10 Value addition and precision in spices cropsSDatta 11 Value addition and precision in fruit cultureS Kundu 12 Value addition and precision in minor fruitsN Bhowmik and P Dev 13 Value addition in hortiuclutral crops some relevant considerationsV Bahadur 14 Value addition and precision in flowersAK Pal 15 Value addition and precision in mushroomA Singh 16 Value addition of palmyraN Chattopadhyay and AB Sharangi 17 An Introduction to newer technologies for food processingI Chakraborty and S Saha 18 Hitech horticulture for precision farmingB Bhattacharya 19 The economy and marketing in the context of precision horticultureS Mukhopadhyay and Md H Ali Conclusion Bibliography IndexThe application of cutting edge technology in the production and management of agri-horticultural enterprises is increasing in a swashbuckling manner Today we are not only attuned to ensuring food security but also adequately concerned to the ecological deterrence from erosion and contamination The precision agriculture has got tremendous application a micro-micro level and also at the national level The increasing application of GIS GPS and RST together called geoinformatics has enabled precision agriculture and precision horticulture to create value added marketable production with a clandestine consideration of field and temporal variabilities This book is a splendid creation for eying on both the value addition as well as precision technology so that any academician or any entrepreneur can address and epitomize the opportunity and scope of precision farming par seThe age of classical agriculture is facing sharp redundancy and will be loosing relevance in a shorter frame of time unless it can be uplifted to a level of livelihood generation process and product not only for the horticultural entrepreneur elites but also for the millions of grass root farmers hungry and hunting for food income and livelihood from the amazing world of horticultureThe volume of biological production is sometimes rendered meaningless and sometimes goes a liability of production because these are not scaled up with value addition-a worth of Rs30000- crores of horticultural produces every year is lost in India due to lack of proper supply chain This is a sheer insensitive activity on the face of upsurge in poverty and unemployment In a global market value added agriculture from India does contribute only to the tune of 1-2 A country with the highest horticultural productivity in the versions of vegetables fruits flowers spices medicinal and plantation crops is suffering from intrinsic contradictions by displaying a poor value addition to the mammoth productionThe book is rightly envisaging to create a series of vista primarily for the small and medium entrepreneurs on how to create livelihood generate income and ensure food security by transforming the stale green biology into a rippling silvery livelihood All possible traits of horticulture has been incorporated with a clear focus on processing and quality enhancement marketing and supply chain performances the gender dimensions livelihood and employmentWe are of every hope that this is not a mere book volume but a comprehensive handbook for willing entrepreneurs to transform their means of life into a synergy o.…