RURAL

ENTREPRENEURSHIP
What is Rural Entrepreneurship?

Rural Entrepreneurship is that

entrepreneurship which ensures value
addition to rural resources in rural areas
engaging largely rural human resources.
 Types of Rural Entrepreneurship
• Individual entrepreneurship
• Group entrepreneurship
• Cluster formation
• Co-operatives
 Need For Rural Entrepreneurship

 Employment generation
 Income generation
 Rural development
 Build up village republics
 Curbs rural-urban migration
 CATAGORIES
 FOOD PROCESSING
 MINERAL BASED INDUSTRY
 AGRO BASED INDUSTRY
 CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
 ENGINEERING & NON-CONVENTIOAL
INDUSTRY
 TEXTILE INDUSTRY
 SERVICE INDUSTRY
 COTTAGE & HANDICRAFT INDUSTRY
Dr. ANAND KARVE
Founded ARTI
(Appropriate Rural
Technology
Instituted) in April
1996.
 Harnessing agro-
waste into fuel.

 Pioneering seed
and irrigation
techniques
Objective of
developing,
popularizing and
commercializing
innovative rural
technologies
 ARTI
(Appropriate Rural Technology
Institute)
NGO based in Maharashtra founded
in 1996
 OBJECTIVES
• To serve as an instrument of rural development

• To develop, standardise, popularise & commercialise

innovative rural technologies

• making traditional rural business more profitable

• generating new business and employment opportunities

PROJECTS
 TECHNOLOGIES

• Nursery technologies

• Rural Energy Technologies

• Agri-Horticultural Technologies for e.g. Milk

substitute from soybean and groundnut
PROMOTION
arti-india.org
 TRAINING

• 5 MODULES

• COST: Rs.5000 each

farmer.
 PROBLEMS

• LACK OF FINANCE
• GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION
• LACK OF TECH KNOW-HOW
• LACK OF AWARENESS
• HIGH COSTS OF PRODUCTS
 “THE BEST REASON TO START
AN ORGANIZATION IS TO MAKE
MEANING- TO CREATE A
PRODUCT OR SERVICE TO MAKE
THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE.”