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• Supports infrastructure development and network development.
• Provides a market with the needs and demands of the product.
• Creates a need for education and awareness for entrepreneurship.
Let us study about some common entrepreneurship activities related to the society.
4.1.1. Social Entrepreneurship
Social entrepreneurship means doing business in a creative manner to help in the social development of the
society. Social entrepreneurship deals with environmental and social issues. They put efforts and take risks to bring
positive changes in society. Some of the problems taken care by social entrepreneurs are poor quality education
for underprivilege, health and sanitation, unemployment, child labour, etc.
Some of the well-known social entrepreneurs are:
• Urvashi Sahni: She is the founder and CEO of SHEF (Study Hall Education Foundation),
an organisation dedicated to offering education to the most underpriviliged girls in
India.
Urvashi Sahni
• Harish Hande: He is the CEO & Founder of Selco, a company rendering sustainable
energy sources to rural regions of the country. This project was the first rural solar
financing program in India.
Harish Hande
4.1.2. Agricultural Entrepreneurship
Agricultural entrepreneurship means doing business in a creative manner that deals with production and marketing
of different agricultural products. This has brought the development of remote areas and also has helped the
farmers by providing low-cost innovations in farming processes. Tree farming, dairy farming, meat packing, food
delivery, and herb growing are some of the examples of entrepreneurship ventures in agriculture.
Some of the well-known agricultural entrepreneurs are:
• Pramod Gautam: A former automobile engineer who switched to farming in 2006,
now gets a yearly turnover of over 1 Crore after implementing a radically different
method of cultivation. Pramod sells the processed and unpolished pulses under the
brand name of ‘Vandana’.
Pramod Gautam
• Rajiv Bittu: Rajiv is a part-time Chartered Accountant and a full-time farmer. And
according to him, he earns more from farming than his chartered accountancy firm.
According to Rajiv drip irrigation is the best way to reduce water wastage and labour
cost, while mulching is nothing but a thin layer of plastic in which holes are made to put
the seeds. This restores the sun rays for a long time and retains humidity of the soil. It
also restricts the growth of weeds around the main crop.
Rajiv Bittu
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