Title: Risk Mitigation in Agriculture
1Risk Mitigation in Agriculture IKP Centre for
Advancement in Agricultural Practice (ICAAP) Arv
ind Chandrasekar 11 August 2009
2What is risk?
Oxford English Dictionary
1. a situation involving exposure to
danger 2. the possibility that something
unpleasant will happen
3Risk in agriculture
- Broad classification
- Regulatory risks changes in regulations and
- policies, political risks
- Price risks market risks, price fluctuations
- support prices, futures markets
- Production risks environmental and climatic
- risks
4Mitigating production risks
- Ex ante strategies minimizing risk exposure
- Knowledge dissemination agricultural extension
services, pest management, cropping patterns,
changes in seeds, adaptation to climate change - Ex post strategies coping with shocks
- Disaster assistance, migration, labor
re-allocation
5ICAAP Overview
Mission To deliver sustainable increases in
the incomes of small and marginal farmers in
India through advancements in agricultural
practice Vision To serves as a resource centre
for knowledge aggregation and dissemination for
high value horticultural crops and to be a unique
institute providing state of the art tools and
techniques for developments in food processing
and post harvest technologies
6ICAAP Overview
- Core components
- Agricultural knowledge management initiative
- Agribusiness and food technology incubator
7ICAAP Overview
- Agricultural knowledge management initiative
- Crop-specific knowledge acquisition
- Knowledge management in customizable format
- Knowledge provision for specific queries
- Repository of good agricultural practices
- Repository of innovations in agricultural
practices
8ICAAP Overview
- Agribusiness and food technology incubator
- Technical expertise in food product and process
development - Infrastructure and equipment for food product
and process - development
- Laboratory facilities for safety and quality
assurance - Linkage between farmer-processor-market
- Facilitate access to capital for process scale up
9Current projects
- Knowledge dissemination to improve the
livelihoods of mango farmers in Shenkottai and
Tenkasi, Tamil Nadu - Better price realization connection with Big
Bazaar - Workshop on good agricultural practices
- Processing capabilities
10Location of project area
11Future work and collaborations
- IFPRI
- TNAU
- ANGRAU / MANAGE / NAARM
- PAU
- Cornell
12Thank you!