Micro or Small Goat Entrepreneurship

Description

Augmentation of productivity of micro or small goat entrepreneurship through adaptation of sustainable practices and advanced marketing management strategies to double the farmer’s income is a format of a proposal of the project for application of grants from different funding agencies.
The project is aimed to double the income of the farmers in India by developing goat husbandry as the entrepreneurship. The proposed project is aimed not only to improve but also to sustain the improved lifestyle of the goat farmers. The following objectives have been identified:
To develop intention of becoming micro or small goat entrepreneur among the farmers under study.
To augment productivity of micro or small goat entrepreneur through adaptation of sustainable practices.
To add value to the goat products to explore increased profits.
To adapt advanced marketing management strategies to get better profit from micro or small goat enterprise.
To double the income of the farmers under study.
To analyze the policies and procedures of the government pertaining to micro or small goat entrepreneur and suggest amendment(s) required, if any.
To recommend strategies and actions to be undertaken by the micro or small goat entrepreneurs.
To recommend various financing and mentoring opportunities for the micro or small goat entrepreneurs.
To structure an IT based Knowledge portal for the micro or small goat entrepreneurs to engage all the stakeholders.
To develop an e-Commerce Portal for maximizing the overall selling price of the products by micro or small goat entrepreneurs.
To create training programme for the micro or small goat entrepreneurs.

About the Author

Prof. Awadhesh Kishore is currently working as the Professor, School of Agriculture, Sanskriti University, Chhata, Mathura. He is a renowned animal nutritional professional having three decades of experience in the domain of academics, research, training, quality assurance, extension and consulting.
Prof. Kishore has developed Buffer Feed Technology (BFT) to increase content of fat in goat and cross-bred cow milks without any depression in daily milk yield under the research projects sponsored by the Government of India (through CSIR, New Delhi) and the Government of Uttar Pradesh (UPCST, Lucknow). His achievement was honoured by conferring the Young Scientist Award of Bioved Research Society in 2002.
During 2016-19 Prof. Awadhesh Kishore has served Ministry of Education, Government of the State of Eritrea (North-East Africa) as Professor Animal Nutrition. During his stay, he chaired or contributed in various committees including Board of Studies (BOS), Research Degree Committee (RDC), Course Curriculum Designing (CCD) and Committee for Developing Animal Nutrition Laboratory etc., along-with his academic responsibilities. He has also conducted a research project funded by the Ministry of Education, Government of the State of Eritrea, to develop a newer feeding strategy based on the nutritional behaviour of White New Zealand Rabbits to increase their productivity potential without increasing production cost.
To his credit, Prof. Awadhesh Kishore has published 35 research papers internationally. He was the invited speaker in 6th International Conference on goats 1996 and presented his work on BFT to improve augmentation of goats in a better way. He has published 12 books with the reputed publishers in India and seven E-books with Smashword International (US).
Prof. Kishore has worked as the Editor of Journal of Rural Advancement during the period of 2013-16. Under the Government of Uttar Pradesh he was engaged in training of the farmers to adopt new technologies in animal husbandry. Presently he is also taking responsibilities as the consultant, Vraddhi Organic Agro India Private Limited.

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