Agri-Business Management (ABM)

COURSE STRUCTURE

Course Code Course Number of Credits Description/Course Objective Semester

ED80.03 Agribusiness Management: Principles and Practices 3

Agriculture has traditionally been viewed as a subsistence activity. This perspective is rapidly changing due to globalization of commercial food markets. Agribusiness management, bearing multi-disciplinary characteristics, covers aspects of policy, finance, technology and entrepreneurship. The course will provide a broad overview of agribusiness management and will introduce various contemporary issues in terms of their influence on agribusiness development. Furthermore, this course aims to equip students with theoretical principles of management, its functions, and its practical applications.

Aug Sem

ED80.04 Safety and Standardization of Food Products 3

To provide the students with knowledge on the need for greater quality assurance, standardization and traceability in the food systems. The course emphasizes food quality control as the mechanism for the prevention of food-borne illness and food spoilage at the “farm-to-fork” level.

Aug Sem

ED80.05 Agri-Food Supply Chain Management 3

This course provides broad knowledge of various management issues related to food supply chains, including farm level production to post-harvest management. The course discusses functioning of each sector of food supply chains and how these sectors can be coordinated and integrated to ensure availability of safe food.

Jan Sem

ED80.07 Marketing Management and Trade Policies in Agribusiness 3

This course provides students with marketing management skills and exposes them to issues of trade policies in agribusiness. It also examines how the issues of trade policies and marketing can be managed effectively.

Aug Sem

ED80.08 Applied Managerial and Agribusiness Economics 3

This course provides students with marketing management skills and exposes them to issues of trade policies in agribusiness. It also examines how the issues of trade policies and marketing can be managed effectively.

Aug Sem

ED80.09 Agro-Industrial Development 3

The objective of this course is to provide the framework and strategies of establishing and operating enterprises in the agro-industry for development. The interactions among raw material supply, processing, factors affecting site selection and layout for retail, wholesale and processing enterprises will be important aspects of this course.

Jan Sem

ED80.10 Statistical Methods for Research in Agribusiness 3

This course provides students with statistical techniques and useful skills for collecting, designing, analyzing and interpretation of data that can be used in the research and decision making process in agribusiness environments.

Jan Sem

ED80.11 Analytical Techniques and Decision Tools for Agribusiness 3

Sound understanding and working knowledge of decision making techniques and tools are important in agribusiness management. This course provides understanding to quantitative decision-making methods for effective agribusiness management in resource allocation, scheduling, risk analysis, and forecasting. Emphasis is given to problem identification, model formulation and analysis, and interpretation of results under multiple criteria decision making conditions.

Jan Sem

Minor details : The following courses have been identified to be offered as ‘Minor’ in the ABM Academic Program

Course code Course title Credit Semester

ED80.03 Agribusiness Management: Principles and Practices 3(45-0) August

ED80.07 Marketing Management and Trade Policies in Agribusiness 3(45-0) August

ED80.09 Agro-Industrial Development 3(45-0) January

ED80.10 Statistical Methods for Research in Agribusiness 3(45-0) January