Hyderabad, July 3:
Top multinationals such as DuPont, Bayer Crop Science to Cadbury and
Indian biggies such as ITC Agri, Mahindra, Shriram Bioseed, YES Bank and
Bharat Insecticide have lapped up management graduates in agri-biz.
The handsome salaries offered to the batch of 2013 at MANAGE here show
that the demand continues to be high in the sector, despite the general
slowdown in hiring in corporate sector in the country.
The Post-Graduate programme offered here has been a big draw.
With 100 per cent placement to show, the average, annual cost to company (CTC), for students is Rs 7 lakhs.
A girl student got the highest CTC of Rs 18 lakhs.
The post-graduate diploma in management programme (agri-business
management), offered by the
National Institute of Agricultural Extension
Management (MANAGE) had a total of 58 students in the batch of 2013,
that graduated recently.
About 30 companies participated in the campus placement this year said
B. Srinivas, Director-General of the premier Institute. MANAGE started
this course 17 years ago to prepare skilled agri-business managers for
the growing domestic agriculture sector.
It has been having a good run as far as placements are concerned, he said.
Interestingly, the average CTC for the earlier batch of 2012 was around Rs 6.9 lakhs and the highest offer was Rs 13.5 lakhs.
The IIM, Ahmedabad offers a post-graduate programme in agri-biz, said K. Anand Reddy, Director (HR) at MANAGE.
In the last few years, the institute has helped NAARM, Hyderabad, and
the Choudhury Charan Singh, National Institute of Agriculture Marketing,
Jaipur, to start similar programmes to prepare more professional
managers, he said.
Among the corporates who participated in the campus placement were
Advanta, Connect Agri, Dhanuka, FINO, IFFCO Kisan Sanchar, ITC Foods,
KEMIN, Magma, MTR, Nabcons, NCDEX, NETAFIM, NSEL, Rasi Seeds, Sathguru,
Sresta, Super Agri, etc.
The two-year programme at MANAGE is meeting the demand for professional
managers capable of handling a whole gamut of operations from farming to
procurement, supply chain and retailing.
It is also providing impetus and encouraging students to
entrepreneurship and create techno-managers to serve public, private and
farming sectors.
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