Post Graduate Diploma in Agri-business Management

The on-going structural changes in the economy have resulted in major shifts in the Indian agricultural scenario. The primacy of subsistence orientation is yielding place to commercialisation, opening up vast opportunities for value addition, packaging and exports of agricultural products, with strikingly high levels of technology. The policies of globalisation have taken Indian agriculture into the global village, opening up unprecedented opportunities as well as great challenges. These and other concomitant forces of change are placing significant demands for managerial skills in the Agri-Business sector.The course module is divided into VII trimesters covering 117 credit load including one trimester for summer internship during which the students undergo an assignment given by agribusiness companies. The academic curriculum covers 39 subjects broadly distributed into basic, functional, sectoral and general courses during the period of two years. In addition, the students also participate in live-projects assigned to the institute along with faculty members during their stay in the institute. The programme also provides opportunities to students to take up an industrial visit for closer interaction to understand the latest developments in the industry as a part of the course curriculum.

Trimester - I
1. Communication and Presentation Skills
2. Basic Computer Skills
3. Principles of Marketing Management
4. Principles of General Management
5. Self Management (OB-I)
7. Basic Financial Accounting
8. Managerial Economics-I (Micro)

Trimester - II

1. Business Statistics
2. Marketing Strategies and Techniques
3. Managerial Economics-II (Macro)
4. Organizational Behavior - II
6. Management Information Systems
7. Agri-Input Marketing
8. Written Analysis Communication

Trimester - III

1. Human Resource Management
2. Operational Research
3. Financial Management
(Corporate Finance)
4. Quantitative Aids for Agri-Business
5. Project Planning & Management
7. Procurement Management


Trimester - IV
1. Summer Project


Trimester - V
1. Farm Production Management
2. Sales and Distribution Management
3. Commodity Trading, Future and Options
4. Participatory Extension Management
5. ERP
6 . Strategic Management
7. Agricultural Finance

Trimester - VI

1. Rural Marketing
2. Supply Chain Management
3. Customer Relations Management
4. Agriculture Export Management &
International Trade
5. Electives / Live Project


Trimester - VII

1. Advertising and Communication
2. Business Law and Ethics
3. Risk Management in Agri-Business
4. Total Quality Management
5. Special lectrues on emerging areas
related with agribusiness
6. Electives / Live Project