Agricultural Microbiology Based Entrepreneurship : Making Money from Microbes / edited by Natarajan Amaresan, Dhanasekaran Dharumadurai, Olubukola Oluranti Babalola.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Amaresan, N., editor.

Dhanasekaran, Dharumadurai, editor.

Babalola, Olubukola Oluranti, editor.

Series:

Microorganisms for Sustainability, 2512-1898 ; 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture.

Microbiology.

Microbial genetics.

Microbial Genetics.

Local Subjects:

Agriculture.

Microbiology.

Microbial Genetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2023.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2023.

Summary:

This book is first part of the 3 volume set focusing on basic and advanced methods for using microbiology as an entrepreneurial venture. This volume explains the entrepreneurship skills for production, cost-benefit analysis and marketing of bio-fertilizers, bio-pesticides, bio-insecticides, seaweed liquid biofertilizer, and phosphate solubilizers. Chapters cover the applications of microorganisms in small and large scale production to achieve a sustainable output. The book provides essential knowledge and working business protocols from all related disciplines in agribusiness, organic farming, and economic integration. This book is useful to graduate students, research scholars and postdoctoral fellows, and teachers who belong to different disciplines via Botany, Agriculture, Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology, Plant Pathology, and Horticulture. Next two volumes are focused on food and industrial microbiology.

Contents:

1. Concept of entrepreneur and entrepreneurship

2. Government schemes for entrepreneurship programs

3. Skills for entrepreneurs

4. Intellectual Property Principles in Microbial Technologies

5. Ethical and legal issues in microbial products in India

6. Mass multiplication, production cost analysis, and marketing of cyanobacterial biofertilizers

7. Rhizobium biofertilizers: mass production process and cost-benefit ratio analysis

8. Mass multiplication, production cost analysis and marketing of VAM fungal biofertilizer

9. Mass multiplication and cost analysis of Frankia biofertilizer

10. Mass multiplication, production cost analysis and marketing of Azospirillum

11. Mass multiplication, production cost analysis and marketing of Azotobacter

12. Mass multiplication, production cost analysis and marketing of Pseudomonas

13. Mass production, formulation and cost-benefit ratio analysis of Bacillus thuringiensis bioinsecticide

14. Mass multiplication, production cost analysis and marketing of Trichoderma

15. Mass multiplication, production cost analysis and marketing of Metarhizium

16. Mass multiplication, production cost analysis and marketing of Beauveria

17. Chaetomium sp.: An in-sight to its antagonistic mechanisms, mass multiplication, and production cost analysis

18. Vermicomposting: a leading feasible Entrepreneurship

19. Mass Production and marketing of microbial compost

20. Cost benefit assessment of solid based biofertilizer production.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Amaresan, Natarajan Agricultural Microbiology Based Entrepreneurship

ISBN:

981-19-5747-9