This two-year, full-time residential program aims to train and nurture agribusiness executives, entrepreneurs, and intrapreneurs with vision, competence, and the right mindset for developing and growing agribusiness and agro-based firms with a strong international focus, say sources from IIM Lucknow.

Employing about 60% of the nation’s workforce, agriculture is the most significant source of income for rural India.

This makes IIM Lucknow’s PGP – ABM crucial for the development and growth of India’s agriculture sector as it directly contributes to increased agricultural production and efficiency, leading to higher profitability for farmers and agribusiness corporations.

Curriculum

The PGP – ABM curriculum’s primary focus is on understanding the interdependence of organizational processes and their managerial implications, assisting students in developing the conceptual and analytical skills needed to make and implement effective management decisions, say sources from IIM Lucknow.

Career opportunities

Speaking about the career opportunities for graduates after the program, Prof. M.K. Awasthi, Chairperson of PGP-ABM at IIM Lucknow, said agribusiness sector is most promising sector in terms of growth opportunities and social transformation catalyzer as this sector has ever growing demand propelled by the rising population and purchasing power of consumer.

This is the only sector where aggregate demand is influenced primarily by the demographic factors and thus keep growing even during the period of economic recession or pandemic, say sources from IIM Lucknow.

Our students are in great demand as within the IIM MBA’s, students who have MBA in (agribusiness management have rare combination of strong management skill and agribusiness domain knowledge, say sources from IIM Lucknow.

These MBAs are in short supply as all IIMs together produce less than 140 such agribusiness specialist MBAs, say sources from IIM Lucknow.

$ Grasping essential business functions

$ Providing critical and analytical abilities for success in complicated, unpredictable, and dynamic business situations

$ Applying business knowledge to a global environment

$ Understanding important functional areas affecting agricultural organizations and promoting good corp

$ Developing skills and competencies for long-term competitive advantage in organizations

Familiarising

This program emphasises on familiarizing students with ground-level operations and agricultural production systems.

After completing their first year, students are required to undergo a two-month mandatory summer training in industrial and business groups, say sources from IIM Lucknow.

The summer training program is designed to expose students to real-world job environments.

Key features

Key features that set this program apart include:

· Case study methodology: To foster an interactive learning environment, the program utilizes lectures, case studies, exercises, seminars, role plays, management games, project work, audio-visual aids, and computer-based learning techniques

· Creating next-gen entrepreneurs: IIM Lucknow’s Business incubation Centre is the wind beneath the wings of many young businesses and entrepreneurs in the field of agribusiness.

Some of these startups are Organic ledger, Utopian, Standarde and Farmers2Family.

· Live projects: The mandatory summer training program equips students with the skills required for the workforce.

Agribusiness graduates also regularly go for a one term training programme in some of the leading management institutions of Europe as part of student exchange programme.

· Batch diversity: The PGP-ABM course attracts students from various disciplines, bringing diverse skills and backgrounds to create a dynamic learning environment.

In a typical batch there are students from BSc (Bio), Agriculture, Veterinary, Animal Husbandry, B-tech Biotechnology, and several other branches of engineering.

Enrolment

Commenced in 2004, this program has enrolled 20 batches of students to date. The program aims to transmit information and skills necessary for managers to succeed in an increasingly dynamic and complicated workplace, say sources from IIM Lucknow. At various stages, it sharpens and develops the student’s understanding.

The schedule to submit applications for JEE Advanced 2025 has been announced along with that of AAT 2025 registration,

Application process for AAT starts after result declaration of JEE Advanced. This year too, the trend is no different.

Who will conduct AAT 2025?

AAT 2025 will be conducted by IIT Kanpur and is expected to see a participation in impressive numbers. The same institution is conducting JEE Advanced 2025.

Details about the exam are available on the official website mentioned above. Students who pass AAT 2025 will be able to study BArch in IIT Roorkee, IIT Kharagpur and IIT (BHU) Varnasi.

Who can take up AAT 2025 registration?

Students who have passed JEE Advanced 2025 with required qualifying marks can take up AAT 2025 registration. Applying for JEE Advanced requires a pass in JEE Mains.

Candidates who have passed plus two with maths, physics and chemistry as subjects will be able to take up JEE Mains registration. The process to take up JEE Advanced AAT 2025 registration is online.

1. The URL has to be typed into the browser and the webpage has to be allowed to download.

2. Once the website is available, students should click the link for JEE Advanced AAT 2025 registration and enter JEE Advanced 2025 registration number, their date of birth, mobile number and email address.

3. Post providing the above details, applicants will be asked if they are interested in AAT. Students have to answer ‘Yes’ to take up JEE Advanced AAT 2025 registration.

4. Candidates have to provide the required information and choose the centers where they wish to write the exam and submit the form.

5. They will receive message indicating successful completion of JEE Advanced AAT 2025 registration.

The message has to be downloaded and a printout of it has to be taken and preserved for use in future. This could be of use during the admission process.

Website for JEE Advanced 2025/AAT 2025 Registration is Here

Exam pattern

Candidates who have completed JEE Advanced AAT 2025 registration must also know the exam pattern if they are to score good marks.

Those who have taken up AAT 2025 registration can take up the exam which will be held in offline mode, as a pen and paper mode test.

Candidates will have three hours time to answer all the questions. The medium of the test is English.

The sections in the question paper are – Imagination and aesthetic sensitivity, three dimensional perception, Geometrical drawing, Freehand drawing and Architectural Awareness.

Syllabus for AAT 2025

The next thing to do after completing AAT 2025 registration is focus on preparing for the test.

The subjects to be studied while preparing for AAT 2025 are mentioned below. Candidates can also refer the official website for more information on syllabus when the registration for the exam begins:

Geometrical Drawing

Exercises in geometrical drawing containing lines, angles, triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, circles, etc. Study of plan (top view), elevation (front or side views) of simple solid objects like prisms, cones, cylinders, cubes, splayed surface holders, etc.

Freehand Drawing

This would comprise of simple drawing depicting the total object in its right form and proportion, surface texture, relative location and details of its component parts in appropriate scale.

Common domestic or day-to-day life usable objects like furniture, equipment, etc., from memory.

Three dimension perception

Understanding and appreciation of three-dimensional forms with building elements, colour, volume and orientation. Visualization through structuring objects in memory.

Architectural Awareness

General interest and awareness of famous architectural creations – both national and international, places and personalities (architects, designers, etc.) in the related domain.

Imagination and Aesthetic Sensitivity

Composition exercise with given elements. Context mapping.

Creativity check through innovative uncommon test with familiar objects. Sense of colour grouping or application.

The medium of the test is English. The sections in the question paper are – Imagination and aesthetic sensitivity, three dimensional perception, Geometrical drawing, Freehand drawing and Architectural Awareness.

The admit cards obtained for JEE Advanced 2025 can also be used to gain entry into the test centers for AAT 2024.

Point to remember

Candidates can visit the official website of JEE Advanced exam for more information on JEE Advanced AAT 2025 registration and other related topics.

The students have to quickly take up the AAT 2025 registration as the time left would be very short.

Like JEE Advanced exam where the registration is open for a longer duration, that of AAT 2025 registration is open for only a short period.

The details about AAT 2025 registration provided above are for general understanding purpose of the students.

There could be some changes in the exam, students can visit the official website of the exam at regular intervals to receive updates.

More information could be provided as the time for AAT 2025 registration would commence, till that time, students can refer other sources also.

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