Agribusiness Management Education is now a priority area in the country as several State Agricultural Universities and Agricultural Institutes have added MBA (Agri Business) and equivalent programmes to their educational systems over the past one decade in order to meet the demand of skilled agribusiness managers. Established with the financial assistance from the World Bank in 2000 AD, as a constituent unit of SKRAU, the Institute of Agri Business Management visualizes solution oriented and agro industry need based management education, training, research and policy related activities to give an impetus to the development of agro based industry, in particular, and rural development, in general. The institute is today recognized as an exclusive sectoral business school with a mission to provide professionally competent managers to shoulder responsibilities in the leading corporate/noncorporate organizations under agribusiness and allied sectors.

MISSION:
To help agriculture and industrial sectors and to develop core competence by bringing out professional managers, equipped with modern management theories, practices, appropriate behavioural values, skills with aptitude and sensitivity for agricultural and rural development.

To impart education to young men/women for taking up the responsibilities for managing any form of organization & other agro based income generating & development activities.
    
To offer training programmes for business professionals, policy makers and entrepreneurs for improving decision making skills and administrative competence.
    
To undertake research projects on client specific problems and on general problems facing an industry segment.
    
To create knowledge through researches relevant to management discipline and to disseminate such knowledge through publications.

MBA (Agri Business) Programme

The Master of Business Administration (Agri Business) is a two-year full time residential post-graduate degree programme which grooms young men and women into professional managers for core areas of   agribusiness and allied sectors. The programme aims at providing a comprehensive coverage incorporating the foundation, functional and elective courses relevant to management discipline, in general, and agribusiness management, in particular.
    
To participate in and contribute to the formulation of public policy.
    
To collaborate with other institutions in the state and the country to further the above objectives.
    
To organize seminars/conferences/discussions at the national and international level to further the cause of Agri business.