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- Labour Intensive Techniques: As there is disguised unemployment in our agriculture sector, labour intensive techniques should be adopted in rural industrial units.
- Educate the Rural Entrepreneurs: Government and NGOs offered various schemes and opportunity to the rural entrepreneurs. But, they are unaware of these schemes and opportunities due to their illiteracy. So they should to be educated by conducting workshops and seminars related to their business.
- Offer finance with low rate of interest: Financial institutions like ICICI, SIDBI, IDBI, IFCI, and SFC should provide finance to rural entrepreneurs with low rate of interest and limited collateral security with liberal terms and conditions.
- Government Role: Government should take steps to provide infrastructure, warehousing facilities, offer assistance to marketing and to export the goods of rural entrepreneurs to foreign countries.
- Exploitation of Village resources: For example, where ever there is scope for wind and solar energy, can be fully exploited for rural electrification.
- Ancillary units: These are those, which manufacture parts and components to be used by larger Several ancillary units should be established in rural areas which will lead to better productivity of many engineering industries.
- Micro credit schemes: Provisions should be made for micro credit system like SHGs to the rural entrepreneurs who will boost up the economic development and employment generation of the rural poor.
- Past experiences and other observations should be considered to develop rural entrepreneurship.
- Market information of different products and innovative technology should be publicly announced by the government in order to get its acceptance among the rural entrepreneurs.
- Infrastructure facilities like land, power, raw materials and finance should be provided to the rural entrepreneurs at concessional rates.
- Credit Information of the rural entrepreneurs has to be developed so as to enable them to get sufficient amount of loan from the banks at reasonable rate of interest.
- SWOT Analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats of small businessmen have to be identified and properly trained to motivate them to become entrepreneurs.
- Innovators club should be established in villages to support the large mass of youth who are interested in taking business as a career.
- Marketing management skills should be improved among the rural entrepreneurs to face the problems of entrepreneurship.
- Management training is to be imparted to create awareness of innovative spirit among the rural entrepreneurs.
- Awards should be given to those entrepreneurs who demonstrate extraordinary success. Entrepreneurship development cell should be established at all the villages level to provide guidance and counseling to motivate the rural entrepreneurs regarding the use of modern technology. Separate financial fund for rural entrepreneurs should be provided by the Government. At the same time they should be provided with adequate and timely financial assistance from all the financial institutions and banks.
- Special training programmes for rural entrepreneurs in particular and in general for rural population should be arranged by the Government to improve their knowledge and vocational skills.
- Rural youth need to be motivated to take up entrepreneurship as a career, with training and sustaining support systems providing all necessary assistance.
- Finance for Modernization: Sufficient finance must be given to modernize their outdated technology, tools and implements in order to enable them to compete with the large scale industries.
- Rural entrepreneur should be more competitive and efficient in the local & international market. Successful rural entrepreneurs should show path for other rural entrepreneurs.
- Several schemes and plans of government should be strongly executed at different levels for the encouragement of rural entrepreneurs.
- Interest free consumption credit should be provided by the Government, Banks and other financial institutions to encourage buying the products produced by rural entrepreneurs.
- Agriculture diversification by exploring the opportunities by farming completely a new range of grains, fruits or vegetables.
- Establishing agro food processing units or related units like wine production, juice production and many others.
- Non-farm product business establishment by promoting local rural artisan work.OPS (Opportunities, Problem identification & Solution) Approach: This approach helps an entrepreneur especially neo-rural entrepreneur to explore opportunities include the scanning of the environment to explore the possibilities to start the new venture or to support the already established business in more professional manner. Identifying the exact nature of the problem (External to the Organization or internal to the Organization? If problem of the business is related with government policy it is external and if it is internal it may be related with strategic issue or operational issue or related with functional issues to set up an industrial unit), after identification of the problem it is easier to utilize the opportunities available in the market to explore further.
- Encouraging the skilled and professional people who have left the rural area to come back.
- NRIs and wealthy people of their respective villages should establish/assist rural industries.
- There should be efficient regulated market for the marketing of rural products.
- Grading, standardization should be promoted and promotional activities should be enhanced for the benefit of rural industries.
- To help to develop flexible manufacturing networks of co-operatives, micro and other manufacturing businesses.
- To develop and produce a particular product that none of the firms could manufacture alone i.e. there should be link between them in the manufacture of that product.
- To develop the ways and means by which diversify the product lines, markets and expand distribution channel.
- To promote co-operation between small firms in the network, thus promoting their competitive efficiency.
- To provide different services in the areas of finance, marketing, research and development.
- To provide common services of daily matters in production and administration in order to reduce transaction costs.
