About College

The development of the agribusiness sector in the region can create employment and income generating activities, which can bring stability in agriculture and rural life as whole. The changing nature of agriculture from mainly means of livelihood to the business requires manpower specialized in agri-business management. There is considerable demand for agri-business professionals and expected to increase in near future. Professionalization of various managerial facts of agri-business like production, operations, personnel, marketing and finance require the induction of appropriate trained agri-business professionals in managing the day to day affairs of this business.
Looking to the requirement of trained manpower in Agri-business Management, the School of Agri-Business Management is established by Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor Dr. V.M. Mayande in year 2009. A post-graduate degree programme is started at School of the Agri-Business Management, Nagpur under the jurisdiction of this Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola awarding the degree of Master in Business Administration (Agriculture).

Intake capacity : 30

Academic Programmes

The school offers two year post graduation programme viz; Master in Business Administration (Agriculture)

Infrastructure Facilities

• The School use to contacts with rarely available faculties like faculty in IPR, food technology etc.
• School always communicates with different companies regarding the MBA programme and invited them for placement.
• The various agro-based companies are willing for taking our students for industrial training.
• School has good relations with different institutes.
• School has conduct of diversified education system.

Mandate

• To provide qualitative education in Agri-business Management.

• To develop overall personality of the students during their post graduation in Agri-business Management.

• To provide trained manpower in Agri-business Management

Co-Curricular Activities

The students of the School are continuously engaged in the activities like poster presentation, Group Discussion, Seminars etc. The visit different agri-business firms are organized. Students are placed for industrial training and project work in different agro-base industries.

 Academic History

• National Seminar on Changing ethos in agribusiness and education, at Institute of Agribusiness Management , Mysore.
• Also visited Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Garden, Mysore, and Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technological Museum, Bangalore.
• 3 days Seminar of Agribusiness at Dhanwate National College , Nagpur.
• Students participated as volunteer in orange exhibition organised by State Agril Department.
• Students attended lectures on different issue of Management in Raysoni College, Nagpur.
• Students got training from ACC cement factory for knowing the structure of Human Resource Management , Butibori.
• School has arranged lectures of the Milind Tare, Rajesh Padole, Dr. Deshpande, Anant deshmukh on different aspects of the Management.
• Regularly students use to attend lectures on management, personality development , interview skills etc in Nagpur.
• Students attended Participatory Knowledge Management Workshop & Rural Management Movement Workshop of MS Swaminathan Foudation at Mumbai.
• Our 14 students got around full tuition fee as scholarship from the office of Social Welfare for first year.
• Honorable Vice-Chancellor and the Dean(Agriculture) discussed with the MBA students and also made group discussion on Agribusiness topics with students.
• One student Ms. Pratiksha Sapkal participated in the National Conference on FOOD11 by M.O.P. VAISHNAV COLLEGE FOR WOMEN at Chennai.
• Students participated in National events like Sports, Debate and Elocution Events for 2010-11, in volleyball in 2011-12.
• School has organized National Seminar on “Agribusiness Management: New Initiatives, Challenges and Strategies” on 21-22 Feb 2012.

Contact Information

Director
School of Agri-Business Management,
Dr.PDKV’s College of Agriculture campus
Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.
PIN-440001.
Phone: +91 712-2542260
Fax: +91 712-2542260
Email: directorsabm@gmail.com