Strengthening of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development through Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Abstract

Sustainable entrepreneurship is a kind of entrepreneurship that meets the needs of present without compromising the ability, efficiency and values of future generations to meet their own needs. Sustainable entrepreneurship is an important area in the literature for sustainable development. It involves all the functions, activities, and sustainable actions associated with the perceiving of sustainable opportunities and the creation of sustainable enterprises to pursue them. Green designs find that products and services are environmental advantage with good performance and prices while achieving resource conservation and recovery (RCR) and subsequent reduction of greenhouse gas emission in to the environment. Eco friendly rubberized cotton fabric roller for roller gins has been designed and developed to control unsafe environmental chromium pollution and contamination using chrome composite leather clad rollers in cotton roller ginning process (Vijayan Gurumurthy Iyer, 2007). One of the benefits of creation of sustainable enterprise is an achievement of waste minimization (WM). A case study in case of airport municipal solid waste management (MSW) is discussed. Upon waste characterization and assessment study undertaken for airport industries, it has been verified and validated that only about 20 percent of Addis Ababa International Airport (AAX) generated waste recycled and composted every year. By conducting intensive environmental impact assessment and WA recycling cum composting programs, about 65 percent of the airport MSW shall be recycled and composted. So, the savings is a sum of landfill fees (tipping fees) and carbon tax if applicable per year which could potentially save threefold with WA recycling cum composting programs. It is concluded that the green product design and services reduce the environmental impacts associated with the manufacture, use and disposal of products.