RURAL RURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIPENTREPRENEURSHIP

Rural Entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurship which ensures

value addition to rural resources in rural areas engaging largely rural

human resources.

What is Rural Entrepreneurship?

Types of Rural Entrepreneurship

• Individual entrepreneurship• Group entrepreneurship• Cluster formation• Co-operatives

Need For Rural EntrepreneurshipNeed For Rural Entrepreneurship

Employment generation Income generationRural developmentBuild up village republicsCurbs rural-urban migration

CATAGORIES

FOOD PROCESSING MINERAL BASED INDUSTRY AGRO BASED INDUSTRY CHEMICAL INDUSTRY ENGINEERING & NON-CONVENTIOAL

INDUSTRY TEXTILE INDUSTRY SERVICE INDUSTRY COTTAGE & HANDICRAFT INDUSTRY

Dr. ANAND KARVEDr. ANAND KARVE

Founded ARTI (Appropriate Rural Technology Instituted) in April 1996.

Harnessing agro-waste into fuel.

Pioneering seed and irrigation techniques

Objective of developing, popularizing and commercializing innovative rural technologies

ARTI(Appropriate Rural Technology

Institute)

NGO based in Maharashtra founded in 1996

OBJECTIVES

• To serve as an instrument of rural development

• To develop, standardise, popularise & commercialise innovative rural technologies

• making traditional rural business more profitable

• generating new business and employment opportunities

PROJECTS

TECHNOLOGIES

• Nursery technologies

• Rural Energy Technologies

• Agri-Horticultural Technologies for e.g. Milk substitute from soybean and groundnut

PROMOTION

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TRAINING

• 5 MODULES

• COST: Rs.5000 each farmer.

PROBLEMS

• LACK OF FINANCE• GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION• LACK OF TECH KNOW-HOW• LACK OF AWARENESS• HIGH COSTS OF PRODUCTS

“THE BEST REASON TO START AN ORGANIZATION IS TO MAKE

MEANING- TO CREATE A PRODUCT OR SERVICE TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE.”