Post Graduate Diploma in Management in Agriculture

National Academy of Agriculture Research Management (NAARM) has started two-year Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Agriculture), approved by the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE). This course was the 3^rd academic and first two years course offered by Academy after PGD-IPTMA. 1^st and 2^nd batches of Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Agriculture) completed their course and working in various agri. & allied sector organizations. The 3rd and 4th fourth batch is pursuing Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Agriculture). The activities of the Academy cover a broad range of themes in three key areas as Agricultural systems management & policies, Information & communication management and Human resources management. The services of the Academy are sought nationally as well as globally for enhancing individual and institutional performance and for organizational renewal and change

Advantages of NAARM:

There are numerous advantages of studying at NAARM, all are not possible to write down here. But, we are enlisting few of them as here under;

(1). Opportunity to Access to academic, research, extension and global networking strength of ICAR, the world's largest agricultural research system.

(2).Stimulating learning environment in the midst of a vibrant scientific community from unmatched range of disciplines, committed to the cause of agricultural innovation for sustainable growth of Indian agriculture and livelihoods security for the large population depending on it.

(3). Opportunity of interaction and learning from strong core faculty, which have high involvement in education & research of national and global importance, rich experience of executive training and with linkages to faculty across global business schools.

(4). Free Access to world class networked learning resources including international journals and databases.

(5). Innovative Curriculum designed and continuously revised after frequent interactions with industry that ensures the required balance between core foundations of business management and the breadth of agribusiness specializations.

(6).Strong emphasis on quantitative, analytical and computer skills.

(7). Core focus on effective information management and data analysis cutting across all business management functions for improved business understanding and insight through skill development in spreadsheets, database management; MSProject, GIS Applications, ERP, Business Analytics using SAS.

(8). Focus on technology management and entrepreneurship-through an understanding of the industry of the industry dynamics of technological innovation, valuation and business model development.

(9) Good infrastructure facilities. Please click (here ) for details.

Admission to the program and Students:

Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Agriculture) students, are  selected on  all India basis through a written test, followed by Group Discussion and Personnel Interview (GD&PI) conducted by Academy. 

The first batch of PGDMA (2009-11) has 24 students had been admitted in 2009 and successfully completed their course.  Brief of 1^st batch students and their placement provider organizations can be seen (here).We will be posting individual profile of them in our coming posts.

The second batch of PGDMA (2010-12) has 20 students. All the students have successfully completed their course, brief of 2nd batch students and their placement provider organizations can be seen (here).

Third batch of PGDMA (2011-13) having 17 students. Brief profile of them can be seen (here).

Fourth batch of PGDMA (2012-14) having 24 students. They are studying in academy and their profiles can be seen in our coming posts.

Students (NAARMIANS):

1. List of selected students for the first Batch of Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Agriculture) course here under;

1.       Aashish Panwar

2.       Amitabh chaitanya

3.       Anubhav  Kumar

4.       Ankit Gupta

5.       Ashwini Reddy velamajala

6.       Bhivraj S Borde

7.       Dewasish Ghoshal

8.       Dhananjay  Kumar Pathari

9.       Gunwanta Ramteke

10.     G. Swetha Reddy

11.     Jitendra saraswat

12.     Ishan v Bhalchakra

13.     Kazi wasim Zaman

14.     Khurshid Alam

15.     Kiran Kumar Bandari

16.     Mala Mankotia

17.     Manjusha P.

18.     Rashmi Kumari

19.     Rakesh Kumar

20.     Ramya Sri. B

21.     Sourabh Kumar

22.     R. Swathi Sree

23.     Uma Shankar Singh

24.     Ushakiran A.

  2. List of selected students for the 2^nd batch of Post Graduate Diploma in Managemen   (Agriculture) here under;

1.       Amit Kumar

2.       Anjali Sati

3.       Ashok Kumar Muddada

4.       Avanika Babel

5.       Dibya Ranjan Otta

6.       Keshav Kumar

7.       Kriti Pareek

8.       Minakshi Roy

9.       Mukul Singh Thakur

10.    Om Prakash Gupta

11.    Pankaj Kumar

12.    Pankaj Pandey

13.    Prakash tiwari

14.    Rahul Kumar

15.    Samvedna Kumari

16.    Shilpa Dhawan

17.    Shrikant Vasantrao Chidrewar

18.    Stuti Baruah

19.    Sumit Kumar Sharma

20.    Vibhansu Kumar

3. List of selected students for the 3^rd  batch of Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Agriculture) course here under;

1.       Abhishek Saxena

2.       Amarlata Kumari

3.       Anuj Jaiswal

4.       Anusha Chapa

5.       Arjun Shatrughan Patil

6.       Dipesh Narayan Kokate

7.       Lokesh Kumar Agarwal

8.       Neha Kumari

9.       Pankaj Kamlesh Bhaisare

10.    Paramkusam Mohan

11.    Remya Ranjan D.

12.    Satabdi Mohapatra

13.    Shiva Kumar

14.    Shushrita Mallik

15.    Srijani Ganguli

16.    Surbhi Katoch

17.    Vonodsingh Rajaram Salunkhe

4.  List of the  selected students for the 4^th Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Agriculture) course here under;

1.        Abhishek Kumar Modi

2.        Amit Kumar

3.        Anshu 

4.        Anuradha Kumari

5.        Aparajita Sharma

6.        Arvind Kumar Jha

7.        Ashish Nautiyal

8.        Chandan Kumar Singh

9.        Debadarsini Pal

10.     Ganesh Ramchandra  Pansare  

11.      Gaurav Gupta

12.     Lokesh Kumar

13.     Neeraj Kumar

14.     Neethish Varghese

15.     Pankaj Agrawal

16.     Pradeep Isukapati

17.     Rashmi Kumari

18.     Shashank chaudhary

19.     Sindhu Senthilnathan

20.     Srijita Dutta

21.     Suresh Kumar Godara

22.     Vaibhavi Tukaram Kadam

23.     Vikas Popat Pawar

24.     Yogesh Singh Rana

Curriculum Design:

The course curriculum was designed and developed in deliberations with many senior executives from various sectors of agribusiness agri-business industry, retails, banking and finance, academicians and policy-makers in government.

Apart from the inhouse faculty several industry related business veterans are been called as guest faculty. The academic faculty for the contact classes is drawn from academy and various sources including research/industry/business/public-and-private-sectors. The programme contents were designed to expose the prospective students to concepts of Agribusiness management in agriculture, real life challenges through case studies from working professionals industry.

Curriculum Include:

Course structure:  It comprised of 6 trimesters, summer project and winter project. Brief of the topics are as under.

1.    Agribusiness Environment

• Institutional and Policy Environment
• Agricultural and Food Systems

2.     Analytical Foundations

• Business mathematics
• Managerial Economics – I (Micro Economics)
• Managerial Economics – II (Macro Economics)
• Statistics for Managers
• Quantitative Methods for Business

3.    IT and Systems:

• Computers and Information Systems
• Management Information Systems
• GIS in Agribusiness
• ERP in Agribusiness
• Business Analytics with SAS

4.    Organizational and Leadership Essentials:

• Human Resource Management
• Organizational Behaviour
• Business Communication
• Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

5.    Core Business Functions:

• Financial Accounting
• Financial Management
• Management Accounting
• Project Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Marketing Management
• Marketing Research

6.    Food and Agribusiness Management:

• Agri-food Retail Management
• Agricultural Finance
• Agricultural Marketing
• International Trade in Agriculture
• Risk Management in Agribusiness
• Technology Management
• Rural Marketing
• Agribusiness Strategy
• Commodity Trading and Futures Markets
• Microfinance Management

7.    Elective:

• Contract farming
• Marketing Communication and Advertisement
• e-commerce in Agribusiness Management
• Business Negotiations
• Government policy and institutions
• International Marketing and Export -Import Management
• System Dynamics Modelling and Simulation

8.    Summer Internship (8 weeks):

9.    Project work:

Internship Projects:

As we all know that, Experiential Learning is an integral part of management education. Keeping this in mind, the internship opportunity was provided for the students to practically start using various techniques learned at class room.

1^st batch of NAARMIANS  completed their  summer internship with organizations such  as Nuziveedu Seeds Private limited, ITC Limited, Mahyco Seed Company Limited, SGS India Private Limited, Multi commodity Exchange, Reliance Industries Ltd. (Reliance Fresh), Bharti-Wall Mart, Komal Exotic Spices Pvt Ltd, Keventer Agro Limited, INTAS Pharmaceuticals Ltd, US Agri seeds Limited, Yes Bank Ltd, Coromandal International Limited, Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Pvt. Ltd.

2^nd batch of NAARMIANS completed their  summer internship with various organizations such as Reserve Bank of India, Nuziveedu Seeds Private Limited, ITC Limited, SGS India Private Limited, Aditya Birla Retail Limited, John Deere, National Spot exchange, NCDEX Spot Exchange, Vista Processed Foods Private Limited, KAUSHALYA Foundation, Sinochem& MART.

3^rd batch of NAARMIANS completed their summer internship with various organizations such as Syngenta, NCDEX Spot Exchange, John Deere India Ltd, Navjyoty Commodity Management Services Limited, Coromandel International Limited, Monsanto India Limited, MARS International India Pvt. Ltd, Metahelix Life Sciences (TATA Enterprises). Metro Cash & Carry.

4^th batch of NAARMIANS will be going for summer internship in the month of April to June.

During internship, students/NAARMIANS underwent rigorous training under the guidance of functional area experts in the corporate. Students learnt many additional skills and expertise required to be successful in the real-life work atmosphere. At the end of internships, students prepared a report and submitted the certificate received from the internship provider organization, which was considered as a satisfactory remark of assigned project completion.

Placements:

After the completion of internship, students attended interviews and got placements.

1^st batch placement provider organizations are Saifco, Aditya Birla Retail Limited, DSCL, Q& Q Research Insights, Devgen, NCDEX, Bayer, HDFC Bank, Sumitomo Corporation, Mart Rural Solution.

2^nd batch placement provider organizations are Savannah Seeds, Staragri, ING Vysya Bank, Nagarjuna groups, Metro Cash & Carry, Aditya Birla Retail Limited, United Phosphorus Limited (UPL), John Dheere, Pfizer, National Spot Exchange, Adani Wilmar.

 

3^rd and 4^th batch will be attending interview as per scheduled.

We have made an attempt to connect to all NAARMIANS by linking their LinkedIn profiles, some of the profiles are not up to date, please bear with us. Few of students have changes their first placement provider organizations; we will be updating the same in individual profile post in coming days.

The Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Agriculture) course is going on and students are doing really well and getting recognition & awards in their organizations. We are proud on them. It is true that, we are not able to meet them as frequently, but they are in our professional and personnel touch. We are seeking their advice/guidance/expert comments in various matters and will be continuing the same in coming years.

Quick and more information please drop mail to: naarmian@gmail.com