MANAGE Hyderabad launches ‘The Far Acre’ on agri-entrepreneurs

MANAGE Hyderabad has launched The Far Acre, a book featuring stories of agri-entrepreneurs. It highlights their efforts in solving challenges in Indian agriculture, including market access and finance, while showcasing innovation and long-term commitment in the sector.

Hyderabad: The National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE), Hyderabad, has launched ‘The Far Acre’, a new volume chronicling the journeys of agri-entrepreneurs who are reshaping Indian agriculture.

Authored by Akanksha Shukla and Dr J Shanti, ‘The Far Acre’ brings together the stories of MANAGE alumni and associates who are building enterprises through ambiguity, staying with hard problems, and choosing long, patient paths over short-term wins. The cohort spans founders working across agri-finance, post-harvest management, market linkages, farmer aggregation and rural technology, each chronicled in a dedicated chapter.

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The book situates itself against a backdrop in which Indian agriculture, despite being the country’s largest source of livelihood, still grapples with fragmented value chains, avoidable post-harvest losses and inadequate access to credit for smallholder farmers.

The launch event was attended by senior officials from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, MANAGE faculty, alumni, industry leaders, and the entrepreneurs featured in the book.