Value Addition and Quality Issues in Agriculture and Allied Areas: Techniques and Challenges

Contents: Preface. 1. Privatization of agriculture - myth or reality/Das Gupta. 2. Indian agriculture: GDP, productivity and value addition/S.K. Acharya and M.M. Adhikary. 3. Value addition in research by prioritization: approach and techniques/S.K. Acharya and M.M. Adhikary. 4. Quality aspects of human resource management - organization renewal for individual\'s and organisation\'s growth/R.K. Samanta. 5. Performance appraisal for quality upgradation/S.K. Acharya and M.M. Adhikary. 6. Techniques of quality management in horticultural commodity - the approach and methodology/S.K. Mitra. 7. Quality issues in water management in areas of agriculture, livestock and public health/S.K. Sanyal. 8. Intellectual property and other related issues/D. Das Gupta. 9. Transforming organizations: concept of co-entrepreneurs/M.M. Adhikary and S.K. Acharya. 10. Value addition in micro-planning and project analysis/S.K. Acharya and M.M. Adhikary. 11. Total quality management in extension services/S.P. Mukherjee. 12. Meat technology, its export potentiality and challenges in Indian perspective/S. Biswas. 13. Issues of value addition in financial management/S.N. Mukhopadhyay. 14. SFQ: an emerging concept/Asitava Sur. 15. Extension strategy with quality issues/P. Das. 16. Information Technology (IT) in agriculture - quality issues/A.B. Saha. 17. Quality issues in capacity building process/A.K. Bandopadhyay. 18. Quality Banana production and value addition for competing in the international market/Abu Hassan. 19. Ornamental fish and fisheries: present status and future strategies/Suvendu Dutta. 20. Participation in development of quality extension: concept and strategy/D. Basu and A. Haque. 21. Environmental resources: their preservation and management/D. Das Gupta. 22. Community seed production: a model and an actual experience/Pranab Chattopadhyay. 23. Overview of value addition in tropical fruits in India/Ivi Chakraborty and S.K. Mitra. 24. Sustainable fisheries management with people participation in Lentic Water bodies/S.S. Dana. 25. Some important information on plant diversity management/S.K. Samanta. 26. Role and contribution of local knowledge and wisdom in the value addition/D. Basu, D. Biswas, S. Banerjee and A. Haque. 27. Conflict management: concept, factors and interventions/S.K. Acharya, M.M. Adhikary and K. Pradhar. 28. Exploring new areas for commodity agriculture in wetland ecosystem/A.M. Puste. 29. Applying TQM concepts to training/teaching organizations/D. Basu, D. Biswas and R. Goswami. 30. Quality land and water management towards attaining sustainable agricultural development/P.K. Tarafdar. 31. Advanced agricultural extension strategies/R. Saravanan, NSS Gowda and V. Veerabhadraiah. 32. Agricultural industry and quality issues: policy challenges and intervention/Pradip Kumar Majumdar. 33. Value added e-learning for quality extension education/B.N. Chattopadhyay. 34. Quality issues in farm mechanization/J.P. Gupta. 35. Sustainability of JFM/Raktima Mukherjee. 36. Development of business plan for value added agriculture/D. Basu, D. Biswas, S. Banerjee, R. Banerjee and A. Haque. 37. Market research with quality issues/D. Basu, D. Biswas and R. Goswami. 38. Value addition in services - concept: Kalyani municipality - a perspective/S. Jha. 39. Indian fisheries sector and globalization challenge/B.T. Sawant and P.B. Sawant. 40. Generating value added information of indigenous technical knowledge with a pro-rejection approach: challenges and explorations/Kausik Pradhan. 41. Gender dimension and value added extension/D. Basu and S. Banerjee. 42. Prospect of quality rice production in terms of changing market scenario/D. Kumar. 43. Issues of soil health and value addition/P.K. Mukhopadhyay. 44. Quality issues in tea production and management in terms of pesticidal hazards/A. Bhattacharyya. 45. Quantity vs. quality: need proper balance in Indian agriculture/J.K. Das and G. Majumder. 46. Indicators of effective management of agricultural extension in West Bengal/S. Mondal and N.K. Patras. Subject index.

"Every moment innovations are cropping up by myriad of counts and diverse of destinations but the question is how to drive these innovations splendidly tuned with micro level needs and this is specially true whenever world agriculture is throbbing with quality issues and agenda.

The concept of Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) has been overwhelmingly tilted to implant more and more values with the more and more production.

Innovative agricultural management with quality issues has been perceived in this book through (1) Conceptual Framework (What), (2) Methodological precisions (How), (3) Empirical evidences (Where) and, (4) Back Home application (Why).

Accordingly, the book has been designed and chapterised to encompass latest concepts on value addition and quality management. The concepts are being supported by different trade and business related field experiences in areas of agriculture, horticulture, dairy technology, natural resource, risk management, common property resource management, livestock management, fishery, forestry, Organizational Development (OD), Value Added Project Management (VAPM) and ultimately most desire aspects of TQM (Total Quality Management).

The book is enriched with plethora of field experiences and examples from different workshops on agricultural management, which would be extremely useful for the professionals of agriculture, horticulture, dairy, fishery, livestock, forestry, etc.

While Total Quality Management (TQM) has been a nascent concept with which entire Indian Agriculture is equipping herself for accepting challenges in the global market, the techniques, premises, elements and quality management have been incorporated in the book by the style and fashion.

The authors are expecting a huge response from the users of this book since the book so far has been unique by text and based on elements drawn entirely from the challenging areas of agricultural management. The strength of the book is the contribution made by the renowned and resourceful personality from diverse score of modern management institutes and enterprises."