Managerial skills for developing agricultural value chains -- Agricultural development bank -- Crystal Lake Fisheries – I -- Ghana nuts -- Nutco Ivoire: the cashew pricing dilemma -- Totgars’ co-operative sale society -- Casscorp: breaking the commodity monopoly -- Megha farms -- Henn & Co -- Bar Brothers’ Fishery -- Willfields & THF -- BanIva: Going bananas for diversification -- Akshayakalpa -- Graingrow -- Between the ministry and the multinational -- Maize seed industry in Thailand -- Replacing tobacco in Malawi -- The Phata Cooperative.Managerial skills for developing agricultural value chains -- Agricultural development bank -- Crystal Lake Fisheries – I -- Ghana nuts -- Nutco Ivoire: the cashew pricing dilemma -- Totgars’ co-operative sale society -- Casscorp: breaking the commodity monopoly -- Megha farms -- Henn & Co -- Bar Brothers’ Fishery -- Willfields & THF -- BanIva: Going bananas for diversification -- Akshayakalpa -- Graingrow -- Between the ministry and the multinational -- Maize seed industry in Thailand -- Replacing tobacco in Malawi -- The Phata Cooperative.

The book of cases, mostly of small to medium organizations, from west Africa and India offers cases suitable for training of practicing managers of small and medium agricultural enterprises and public sector professionals engaged in agricultural development. Case-based teaching is particularly suitable for training of practicing managers with limited formal training. The cases in the book are adequate to comprehensively address key issues in agricultural enterprise management and value chain development.