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ABSTRACT
Seed Business Incubation is an initiative to develop and promote rural seed business ventures at village level in order to bridge the demand and supply gap of quality seeds through public, private and people partnerships. Seed Business Incubation provides holistic support to the entrepreneurs in turns basic seeds, capacity building, quality control, Business consultancy, Branding and marketing by commercializing new cultivars and benefiting the farmers. Seed Business Incubation Program was implemented in Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu first time with the help of Agri Business Incubator (Tamil Nadu Agricultural University) Coimplements with the partner BEDROC an Non Governmental Organization in Nagapattinam district for incubating the seed entrepreneurs. This study provided information about the awareness level of the farmers, BEDROC and traders about SBI program.This information will be useful for ABI-TNAU and BEDROC to improve their efficiency in implementing the SBI program.
Key words: Seed Business Incubation, Entrepreneurs, Capacity building.
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INTRODUCTION
Seed Business Incubation is an initiative to develop and promote rural seed business ventures at village level in order to bridge the demand and supply gap of quality seeds through public, private and people partnerships. SBI provides holistic support to the entrepreneurs in turns basic seeds, capacity building, quality control, Business consultancy, Branding and marketing by commercializing new cultivars and benefiting the farmers.
Implementation Plan
Seed Business Incubation Program was implemented in Nagapattinam district first time with the help of Agri Business Incubator (TNAU) Co-implements with the partner BEDROC for incubating the seed entrepreneurs.
Implementing Partners
ABI-TNAU: The Agri-Business Incubator (ABI) is place where the process of starting Agribusiness ventures catalyzed. This is by supporting entrepreneurs with Agri technology, consultancy, consulting with management experts. The Incubator maximizes success by minimizing risk by offering the best opportunity.
BEDROC: Is an Non Governmental organization working in Nagapattinam District. They mainly concentrated on Tsunami rehabilitation programme. In that they are having the separate programme for farmers group (i.e., seed business incubation program). BEDROC works with farmers by promoting entrepreneurship catering services at farmer's door steps. In short BEDROC will be with the farmers from seed to seed for economic empowerment.
Benefits of Seed Business Incubation:
Pre Production:
1. Business Planning facilitate the business plan on rural seed venture.
2. Capacity building...