Farmers’ Commission report emphasized the promotion of agri-preneurship through income generation activities in the rural areas through appropriate technologies. The institutional functionality of agricultural technology product system created in the country needs essential transformation to enable them to generate rural employment generation through appropriate technologies and capacity development of potential entrepreneurs.
Identification of appropriate technology, potential entrepreneurs and capacity development process based on national occupation standards are the basic requirements of imparting knowledge, skill and business operating guidance. Recognition of personality traits, pre learning level and measuring the aptitude and attitude are some of the essential components of capacity development programmes.
Identification and selection of right project, product and business plan formulation are the other side of the coin in starting a profitable rural enterprise. Keeping in view of the present-day market dynamics and challenges it is essential to prepare the potential rural youth to successful entrepreneur. Practicality of the approach, technological and methodological backstopping are some of the essentials in the business development process required from the technology developers for the start – ups.
The sugarcane and sugar Technology Management – Business Planning and Development (Sugarcane – BPD) set up to assist, develop and strengthen the entrepreneurship development, encourage technology-based start-ups and technology driven sugarcane- business ventures and commercialization of sugarcane and sugar technologies through incubation. The Sugarcane – BPD accelerate the sugarcane and sugar-based start-ups to accelerate the cash crop-based sweeteners and high value food additives to the end users.
