MBA (Agribusiness Management)

The focus of Summer Internship component is to partner with all our partners and enterprises that have an unstinting commitment to Agribusiness sector. The Summer Internship is planned to be a problem solving segment wherein students will apply their analytical and decision making skills on specific project based problems/challenges assigned by organizations engaged in various aspects of rural business and development.

The students will work under active guidance of experienced senior managers supported by faculty guides from KSRM to help them to make decisions under real & more demanding situations.

 Scope of Summer Internship:

The host organizations can assign project(s) on problems/issues/situations which require better understanding, insights and analytical abilities for their resolution.

 Summer Internship Deliverables:

During the course of Summer Internship students are expected to rigorously research the problem, analyze data, and produce outputs in terms of solutions in line with the objectives of the projects. After the completion of Summer Internship field work the students are expected to make presentation of their project to host organization and submit the draft reports.

The study findings are again presented in Summer Internship seminars conducted at KSRM under the supervision of internal faculty and external examiner.  Based on the suggestions received during the seminars and comments of the faculty guides, the draft reports are revised and a copy each is submitted to school and host organization. The students are evaluated for their projects independently by the host organization and KSRM.

Live Project I

In the arena of ever changing global economy, the prospects and challenges of agriculture sector has been changing. In this context, the students of agri-business management, in the first year of their course, need to have basic understanding on the dynamics of the agriculture sector especially the functioning of industries related to agri-input, credit, production & value addition, commodity trading & collateral, marketing, and farm-based organizations.

With this background, the students in their second semester (after going through the fundamental courses in the first semester) need to have experience of above mentioned industry specific scientific understanding through both secondary and primary information. This experience may enable the students to prepare for their Summer Internship followed by the Live Project-2.

Two-week worth of time across the semester is proposed for the Live Project-1. The students in group (4-5 students in each group) need to take up the pre-defined and identified specific industry related project in the vicinity of the University. Faculty guide will be allocated to the each group. They may visit multiple times to get relevant secondary data and literature (document), observe and discuss with some defined stakeholders.

At the end of the project, the student groups will prepare their report and submit to their respective faculty guide. As part of the evaluation, each group needs to give a formal presentation to the faculty members and their fellow student friends. The purpose of the presentation in front of their fellow student friends is to facilitate cross learning.

Live Project II

The students in their third semester (after going through the fundamental courses and some advanced courses in the first two semesters semester) need to have experience of industry specific scientific understanding through both secondary and primary information. This experience may enable the students to prepare themselves for their placements after having completed their Live Project-1 and Summer Internship.

Two-week worth of time across the semester is proposed for the Live Project-2. The students in group (2 to 3 students in each group) need to take up the pre-defined and identified specific industry related project in the vicinity of the University. Faculty guide will be allocated to the each group. They may visit multiple times to get relevant secondary data and literature (document), observe and discuss with some defined stakeholders.

At the end of the project, the student groups will prepare their report and submit to their respective faculty guide. As part of the evaluation, each group needs to give a formal presentation to the faculty members and their fellow student friends. The purpose of the presentation in front of their fellow student friends is to facilitate cross learning.

Outcomes from the Live Projects 2: After completing the second live project, the students should be able to –

1. Understand the working of an Agri-business Organisation.
2. Would have interacted with some customers of the business or the organization and would have a glimpse of the expectations of the customers.
3. Understand the day to day challenges of running the particular business and understand how those are generally dealt with.
4. Learn the skills of communicating with employees within the organisations and their customers.