Ecopreneurship and Rural Development

Abstract

Rapid growth of industrialisation within the country is creating lot of demand on natural environmental resources, as our resources are limited only strategic uses of these resources can sustain our livelihood. Environmental management has become core business issue to minimize the amount of waste, reducing energy consumption and making efficient uses of resources. Flow of these resources like soil, minerals, water to economic activity for production and consumption, caused for environment pollution, associate in the flow of residuals. These threat of environment pollution are opening new opportunities for entrepreneur mainly in the field of preservation of natural resources. protection of bio sphere, ecological system of earth wise and efficient use of resources and energy, generating bio-diesel, methane farming and full use of solar energy etc. There is enormous opportunity for the growth of Rural Entrepreneurship in protection of land(soil) degradation through proper use of organic fertiliser, bio pesticide, plantation, watershed management. Provide safe drinking water, community sanitation, and health service. Proper use the waste of livestock for generation of bio-gas to substitute a fair share of LPG, Petrol, Kerosene etc. Plantation of neem, karanja, jatropha has two side effect protect soil degradation as well as production of bio fuel from seeds of these plant. Carbon Credit can be earn through social forestry, supply of green fuel, control of pollution, can be trading this credit in international market through exchange. Eco-tourism another prospect for rural Entrepreneurship. Pollution threat can be new avenue for ecopreneurship. We can say it green entrepreneurship, which has three effect protect environment, control pollution and create entrepreneurship and rural development.