With awards that range from "Best New Footwear Brand" to "Charity Event of the Year" UGG Australia, creators of the wildly popular UGG boots are a true corporate success story. Founded in 1978 by an Australian surfer who transplanted himself to California, UGG was originally a brand that featured comfortable shoes. For twenty years, UGG chugged along generating modest but steady sales. In 1998, the company took a major step in another direction. The company, under the guidance of its new corporate overseer, Decker Outdoor Corporation, made a strategic move and positioned itself as a maker of high-end luxury footwear.

In 1998, the UGG footwear line consisted of two boot styles, four slipper styles and a few casual footwear styles. The new positioning as a high-end luxury and high fashion footwear supplier proved to be a perfect fit for UGG Australia. Within three years, the line was regularly being featured in high fashion magazines and photo shoots. The company formed a strategic alliance with Nordstrom and the brand really took off.

As important as the new positioning was to UGG's success, there was another factor that rocketed UGG Australia's footwear line to international prominence. In the year 2000, just two years after the strategic repositioning of UGG Australia's product line, Oprah Winfrey received a pair of UGG boots. The charismatic television host and worldwide celebrity loved the boots so much that she ordered 350 pairs as gifts for her entire staff. She also featured the UGG Ultra Boot on her well-known Oprah's Favorite Things show.

The response was electric. The UGG brand had arrived. When Oprah featured another UGG boot in her 2003 Oprah's Favorite Things show, the Baby Pink and Baby Blue UGG Classic Boots from UGG became a runaway holiday bestseller. That year was also the year that UGG Australia's line was named Footwear News' Brand of the Year.

Those events were not the end of Oprah's association with the footwear line, though. The television host featured UGG's Uptown Boot in her 2005 Favorite Things show, and sales of the sophisticated footwear style skyrocketed overnight. In less than ten years since shifting from 'comfortable shoes' to 'the ultimate in footwear luxury', UGG has become a high-fashion staple, and created an entire new category of fashion footwear. UGG sheepskin boots, shoes and styles are regularly seen all over the world on high fashion runways.

UGG Australia has not rested on its laurels, though. In 2005, the corporation decided to give back some of its good fortune by championing an important cause. The company partnered with St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in a charity event that they cleverly named Art and Sole. UGG Australia challenged selected high profile artists, politicians and celebrities to hand design a pair of Classic Boots. The finished products are auctioned off on eBay, and the proceeds donated to St. Jude's. In 2005, the event rose over $40,000, and attracted the attention of the philanthropy world. In 2007, Art and Sole was named the Best Charity Event of the Year by Accessories Magazine, a feat usually reserved for glittery parties and golf tournaments. Celebrities who have participated since the event's inception include Sharon Stone, John Travolta, Reese Witherspoon and Donald Trump.

It is not surprising that most people have seen a pair of UGG's; either in a store or on the street or featured in a magazine. The famous footwear has been photographed on the feet of some of the world's most well known folks, including Oprah. The latest UGG celebrity sighting is featured in InSide Style's "Where Can I Get…?" feature - on the very lovely feet of actress Jessica Alba. InTouch Magazine photographers got a shot of the effervescent Gwen Stefani; toting son Kingston wearing a pair of the company's famed Baby Boo line of infant boots. US magazine spotted actress Liv Tyler strutting in a swingy baby doll dress all dressed up with a pair of UGG Tasmina sandals, and Star paparazzi snapped Carmen Electra on the street in a stunning pair of women's Classic Tall boots, one of UGG's signature lines. Clearly, given the amount of celebrity endorsements, it's fair to say that the UGG brand has arrived.

The UGG brand has flourished as a high fashion staple. From just a few distinctive styles of boots and casual sandals to dozens of stunning styles in comfortable, luxurious sheepskin, UGG has become a worldwide name in luxury footwear. It's only taken a few short years - and the company is set for a good, long run at the top.

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Have you ever channel surfed, found a movie that caught your attention, and got so involved that you had to watch the whole thing? And even if you had to leave and someone else was watching, didn’t you ask later, “Well, how did it end?” At the very least, you were curious and will watch it the next time it’s on.

Why?

You get involved because you make meaning out of the story and form an emotional connection. You know it’s fiction. The story never happened. You know the characters don’t exist. They are actors. Somebody made the whole thing up.

Yet, we still get involved and feel moved because we are wired for stories and identify with the characters and their situations. This means that our brains respond to stories naturally and automatically. In effect, we unconsciously place ourselves in the story.

Like many fictional characters, we’ve felt the same emotions, wrestled with the same frailties, and faced similar situations, challenges, and temptations.

A story is a river with a strong current. We can’t help ourselves. We get in a boat, drift along, and see what happens. This is the real reason success stories make an impact. We love success stories. They inspire, teach, reveal shortcomings, and expand our view of possibilities.

Why? They are stories and that’s what stories do. However, I’ve discovered why we all love success stories.

You may be happy for the subject of the story. However, you identify with the story such that the subject’s success becomes your success!

Imagine that the story is a roundabout way of influencing your unconscious. And “roundabout” is often the best way of doing it!

Which do you suppose has the greater probability of influencing someone to “Think positive!” and get on with success? A lecture about how one ought to get to work and succeed and a stern warning to “Think positive!” Or a story about someone who learned to “Think positive!” and achieved greatness despite obstacles and limitations.

Invariably, the story will always generate better results. No one likes a lecture, even if he or she realizes it’s well-deserved!

And when I relate a success story, I invite my listeners to “step into the story” in the context of their own lives. This way, they feel what the subject of the story felt in terms of their own success potential. And the impact is powerful and immediate.

So take in all the success stories you can. They are inspirational and instructional.

However, that’s not why they generate success. They generate success because your mind

imagines the success story of someone else as the story of your success!

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I want to bring my readers into the core of a Six Sigma implementation processed in Jordan, and would like to point them to a new success story from Jordan, the talk about Jordan Telecommunication Corporation, which later became a company, it was a Governmental department established more than many decades ago, the corporation has a comprehensive Infrastructure in the Communication field, since it is the only provider for all communications services; the corporation was incapable to cope with the great ever-increasing demand for its services.

The waiting time for household telephone lines was consequently extended to several years, also for business, many business institutions were enforced to wait for several years, one of my friends has opened a shop in Marka-North a suburb of Amman in 1984, but he discovered that he has to wait for unlimited time but after he spends a lot of money, he was lucky and got a line after waiting for 5 years, by that time he really had came to broke, thus shop was closed one year later.

Government nominated board of directors, a General Manager, and some assistants managed the corporation, there were no planning except some tables done by the General Manager assistants and sometimes technical drawing and or charts made upon their own sense of feeling, these in better cases, were seen by some of General Manager Assistants and colleagues. The corporation was run on reaction strategy bases, I mean that when a problem happens, they start searching for a solution, since they weren’t qualified, authorized, thus finding no solution was the real case, but when they sometimes find a solution, then they need to take a decision, which will take another 2-3 years, and some times to put it in action a plan might need the same period of time and to implement it the need another 2-3 years, during this time many other problems will be dominated.



The corporation was run on daily basis, there were no marketing efforts, the management philosophy in act was that: “keep things running with little claims”, the management wasn’t doing any customer’s services except that little number of lines were allocated for services, there were no policy that cares with customers, instead the policy was caring to eliminate complaints, great efforts were exerted, but all was personal efforts, indicating personal diligence, and there was no similarity in forms and in processes applied in different sections and offices, in addition to a long march of routine signatures and multi documented processes. Even when a client needs to pay a bill, it was like a hill day, he might spend 1-3 hours just waiting on line.

Tariffs were cheap, (in comparison with current prices), many services were provided for free, but some tariffs were of high profit margin, especially International calls thus the corporation financial statements were in most cases shows deficit (especially when they have some extensions projects), thus the corporation was in endless shortage of funds.

Although services were acceptable from technical point of view, but that only applied when it’s was available, this means technically the services were good and appreciated, but from managerial and economical feasibility it wasn’t to that limit of goodness.

Briefly says:

From the customer’s point of view, to deal with JTC, or even to visit their offices was not a good experience, if it is not the worst one.

From the Government view, it was a suction pipe of funds, while from the technical point of view; it was great personal efforts, which shows distinct.

The Jordan Telecommunication, thus was a managerial crises for the Government

To cope with worldwide new telecommunication development associated with Information Technology, the government decided on privatization, but at this point it wasn’t promising, since there are deficits in balance sheet and financial statements, Accordingly a five year plan was adopted this will make:

1- The corporation was changed to a Government owned company.

2- To improve the company earnings, this profitability, which makes it more seek able by key service providers.

3- Improving earnings will automatically mean improving the sale price of the corporation.

4- A gradual rate increase strategy has been adopted for 3 years, (as I remember), where rates were increased and units of services have been divided into smaller time units to maintain higher income for the corporation. Free services have been subject to gradual limitation, thus there were no free services after implementing the five years plan.



By the end of the five-year plan, revenues were around 240 million Dinars/year, while the company was sold for around 640 million Dinar, which I believe is a very cheap price, while its assets merely was valuated for around 190 million Dinars.

A consortium of Arab Bank and the French Telecom, has bought the company, in addition they got a license for providing SMS telephone services, under a private brand name Mobilecom.



The new management adopted a new strategy that’s entails:

q To remove the old image of the corporation from clients minds,

q Introduce a younger, fast growing organization, as a reliable partner service provider.

q Concentration has been made on corporate partnership and customer’s relation’s strategies.

The corporation was changed to a company, which was subject to a complete organizational restructuring process, which entails the followings: (The reasons for restructuring):

1- Stake holder’s interest, since they employed a lot of money in these projects, and they need in return suitable profits.

2- To cope with public demand for services, for a wide range of services became needed and there must be a reliable service provider.

3- To change the image of the company in people’s minds, thus creating a successful organization’s image.



To do the restructuring in the right manner, it was important to decide for complete reengineering, thus the officers acknowledged and adopted the following strategies:

1- All or merely 80% of the employees were subject to new trainings.

2- Paper works and signatures have been greatly eliminated and merely dismissed and removed.

3- Paying great attention for existing clients and customers, considering them as Loyal Strategic Partners, instead of annoying customers.



This great shift was achieved through the followings:

1- Company has gone under reengineering process, where the processes and signatures in each department and section has been studied, and eliminated.

2- Employees has gone under comprehensive training, where many employees has been shifted to other jobs, keeping only all those employees who fulfill the standard requirements of performing the job, thus increasing the productivity of the employees and the company.

3- Customers service was shifted to top priority,

4- New software has been developed and implemented to eliminate paper and signature works,

5- A computerized net work has been set up and implemented to reduce time and speed communication between departments, thus it becomes of no need for moving documents from one place to another, and employees become instantly aware of the requested orders and jobs needed to be performed. This I believe was a great improvement in company procedures and operation processes.

6- One shop service strategy was adopted, client needs only to call for a single windows to get the service, which will consume only 2-3 minutes, while the follow up will done automatically, the other concerned departments will complete the required processes without need for the client attendance.

7- All unnecessary sections were immerged into other section for emphasizing productivity.

8- Mainly, no new offices have been hired, instead, the company used a strategy of rehabilitations of the existing facilities, but renewed it and redecorates it, providing it with new setups that made and changed the client’s visit to a pleasure.

9- All office and service providing facilities has been reengineered to provide the maximum comfort of clients when calling to the company offices for any purpose.

10- All the above was associated with a huge advertising campaign to create the following effects:

The strategy of the company depends on four core dimensions,

1- Creating Awareness, demolishing the old image of the Government Corporation, they use Explicit, Implicit and Perceptual advertisement to show and create a new corporate image, the concentration was made on the followings:

A- New Face, New Procedures and Strategy/Service provider.

B- New Services and service dimension of new and creative services were introduced.

C- New Service Dimensions, all distribution points and switch gears has been checked and tested, and new instruments have been installed to maintain service provided in least time, new cable lines have been installed with higher and wider capacities, thus making extra capacity available at all times and in all cases.

D- Strategic Partnership, for several services has been introduced to the existing clients, in addition to attracting new clients, also long term partnerships were included and addresses.

2- Corporate Relationships, the new company finds it is worthy to concentrate on corporate relationships, thus maintaining close and cooperative relations with huge service providers of other ancillary and basic communication services, thus increasing the streams of revenues and new channels of services provided.

3- Customers Relationships, the company emphasizing on long-term relationship with its clients.

4- Also this process entails a lot of expenses, but it is obvious that these investments could be recovered within very few years, thus making the company ready to meet the challenges of the twenty one century, providing reliable and sufficient services to the country and the community, which will help attracting new investments, that are of great important for the Jordanian economy, for, it will be reflected in creating more jobs, enhancing the local and national industry and services, thus will in return increase exports and tourism.



The company is expected not to be the sole provider for Telephone, Telex, and other wide band and telecommunication services, within the next few months, thus it is ready to met new challenges. This was a successful process for the restructuring, and company reengineering.

Now lets discuss why this was happen with great success, I really want to disclose that I hated to being sold, in addition it was sold for a cheap price, ( as I believe), since it was hard to find an investor who will accept such a big risk, but it really happened, a success story from Jordan.

I believe that this success was possible, because the company concentrated on, developed and implemented a Stakeholders strategy that includes Owners, Clients, and Employees.

Lets examine, what might happen if the company has neglected its employees, it might be facing and subject to the worst scenario, but the company management was very clever and very professional in restructuring process and operations, because it mainly depends on it’s own employees, but since employees usually reject the new, (Just anything New), the company starts first with employees, making them its first core of restructuring, facilitating their job, providing a pleasant environment, suitable incentives and salary packages were introduced and implemented. This strategy, helps to win the employees support in a win-win mutual strategy, thus it was capable to win the challenges.

In view of the owners, the project seems to be very promising, for it might cover the reengineering costs and investments within few years. In addition, it has an extra spare capacity which will increase the profits of the company during the next coming few years, thus it cause the strategy to a win-win strategy, instead of the old one win-lose strategy which was adopted when the company was a governmental corporation.

In the other hand, the company has created a young organization, fast growing with unlimited possibilities of profits and success, for the coming years.



But, what about the clients, really they were the first who notice the success of the company, and that was through:

A- Waiting time for providing a new service has been dropped dramatically and decreased to the minimum, may be 2-3 days only.

B- New products have been made available, and provided mainly free with the services provided, i.e.. Modern telephone sets. etc.

C- Bill payments have become more easily and speedy, thus making the visit of the JTC a pleasure experience, instead of miserable one.

D- Offices has been rearranged and decorated to provide pleasant environment, thus it become easy to reach any service section without hassle.

E- Many new services have been introduced; accordingly the customers have noticed great changes in the operation and processes in all departments of the company.

F- The Tariffs of many International Calls and Internet has been reduced, to maintain the smoothly usage of the available capacities.

G- Maintaining coordination between all company departments, which entails in smooth running of operations and processes, which reflected on the benefits of the customers through dedicated customer’s care.

H- Clients become aware, loyal supporters defending the company activities, thus the company maintaining a long-term flow of profits.

Now, if we consider all these benefits, it will show that the problem was a managerial problem, in addition to what we cant neglect and we could call as technical challenges. Really technical challenges could be overcome by purchasing state-of- the-art know-how and technology, but for the managerial aspect, we would not be able to create a successful company from the remains of a governmental corporation, without being subject to a complete reengineering and restructuring of the new born company, being supported by the right will, to perform the right things in the right manner.

This could be a success story, from where and why, and how to create the success in business, believing that in the modern business, there are nothing left for chance, but the matter is simple as it says, If there is a will, there is a way.

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The history states that black community has always been deprived and suppressed. They have been facing a lot of difficulties in their lives. But despite slavery, racism and laws, many blacks have accomplished exceptionally high level of achievement in the United States and many other parts of the world. Above all, the success stories of blacks are still unheard and blacks haven’t got the real price of their labor and struggle to gain the path of success and glory.


This is quite unfair as the success stories of black’s achievement are not brought forward so that others black people can take positive inspiration from it and can follow the golden path.

In today’s scenario, when every one is equal before the law and enjoys the same kind of liberty, freedom, and the quality of life, blacks are needed to be supported and appreciated so that they can do really well in their life. Many black entrepreneurs have plunged into this hard world to create a niche for themselves. Also, the legal protection of individual rights, including the right to property, provided by the capitalist system need to be enforced strictly and people should be treated equal.

In the past, the fears and supremacy of white racists over the black community failed to provide the deserved credit for great black innovators and entrepreneurs. However, the growing consciousness of modern liberal media and intellectuals has supported the cause a lot and speak in favor of black empowerment. Under their name “black fantasy,” these people have weaved their dreams of looking ahead, building a better future, and a respectable way of living where recognition and achievement welcome them. In another words, black entrepreneurs and innovators must be honored as per any other citizen of the country. Blacks need to be appreciated and encouraged to discover their own world.

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It's an age-old American story. A business dream is born. A few dollars are borrowed. Years later, millionaires tell the tale of how they almost didn't take the big risk. So it goes for Pizza Hut.

This worldwide pizza sensation began with what almost anyone would agree are quite humble roots and grew through dedication to become a powerhouse on the international business scene.

The history of Pizza Hut is interesting, as well, and can serve as a great case study for anyone who thinks a little risk isn't worth the rewards it can bring. Read on!

Pizza Hut got its start not in the lands of the Old World. It didn't even begin in the Italian section of New York City. It was founded, in fact, in 1958 by a pair of brothers from Wichita, Kansas. That's right, Wichita!

After getting the idea from a family friend to open their own pizza shop, Frank and Dan Carney borrowed less than $1,000 from their mom to start the shop. With their nest egg, they bought used equipment, rented a building and went to work.

What began in that small shop has since grown to include more than 10,000 shops worldwide in a pizza empire that spans more than 86 countries.

Pizza Hut is now a portion of Tricon Global Restaurants and operates using franchises. Tricon also owns the Taco Bell and KFC names, bringing fast food restaurants to all corners of the globe.

The company, although a household name now, began with humble roots and was developed over time through the careful watch of the Carney brothers. The timeline for the restaurant's growth is simply fascinating.

The store was founded in 1958 and by '59, the brothers had incorporated and opened their first franchise in Topeka. By 1965, Pizza Hut had its first commercial on television and by 1967 it made its first appearance at the Oklahoma State Fair.

A mere 10 years after the brothers opened their first shop, the company boasted 310 locations across the country and in Canada. The traditional red roof was added to the design in 1969.

The 1970s and 1980s saw it attain more worldwide prominence with menu additions, international openings and a New York Stock Exchange listing. Also at during these two decades, Pizza Hut became known for its employment of more than 10,000 teenagers and its willingness to get involved with charities. The chain overall surpassed the 4,000 store mark during this time.

The 1990s brought more success for the chain, including the introduction of convenience store locations, lunch buffets and more.

Today, the Pizza Hut chain serves nearly 2 million pizzas a day in its 12,000 plus locations. It has an estimated 4 million customers worldwide and has even boasted delivery to the White House and to former Russian President Boris Yeltsin.

What began as a $600 venture in Kansas grew through careful nurturing to be one of the world's biggest restaurant franchises.

The company's success all falls on the shoulders of two brothers with a desire and determination to make a good pizza and a good living.

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1. Introduction
Agricultural development over years has been the result of continuous agri skill generation and its popularization. The earliest agriculture was animal domestication over thousands of years ahead, man domesticated wild fowl, dog, goat and smaller animals, whom he could overpower easily and subjugate to his sub-ordination. Agriculture thus since beginning has been the results of trails, experiments and experiences over years, learned first though behavioral changes, psychic reoccurrences, memories passed through parents to children and later on through doing and learning and now through sharing experiences and writing them or dotting them as an Entrepreneurship concern.

2. Entrepreneurship concept
The Entrepreneurship adds economic profits and cost-benefit ratios to Agricultural Output. Entrepreneurship is dominated by four factors like:
a. Social systemic changes
b. Support system availability and use
c. Resource base and its utilization
d. Self confidence, exploration work capacity and intellectual potency.
An entrepreneur has to have a thinking of his own, a capacity building interest in acquiring needed technique. An explorative and analytic faculties to judge the way of procuring cheap raw material. He must be equipped with “knowledge” and mindset to use and benefit out of it.
3. Farm Business
A potential entrepreneurship must strive from getting maximum output. Decades back agricultural development and industrial setups was a public sponsored and heavily subsidized but over time “knowledge” explosion in India Agriculture, have brought us on threshold of a system, where wide distances exist between industry and farm business. Where huge subsidies are benefiting Agro-Industrialists. The Farmers who use fertilizers or agro-chemical are crushed under economic pressures. The gaps between technology generated and technology use at farmers door is increasing day after day. The farm technology adoption rates are not more than 20-30% by any higher prospective. The use of information and communication technology (I&CT) for reducing the gaps and increasing productivity is the need of the hour (Wani, 2005). The modern technology and knowledge flow is fast expanding and bringing change. It demands more educated and trained farmers. Our education system has produced more literates but not educationally trained youth to earn their own bread. They after attaining graduation in agriculture and allied sectors, beg for job. The system has to be corrected to make these graduates as employers and not employees. I wrote a treatise as back as 1992, emphasizing a system. Germans are smart to have Farmers school, Farmer business training institutes, practical agri-farmers training centres and like, where way farmer or animal husbandry man is essentially a trained fellow. The banking system is so organized that they are on the door of convocation hall to sell their agri-business and agri-clinics to graduates, without any personal investments. Banks are so smart, that they have surveyed the villages who need vets or agri-graduates or have attained land and all facilitation, so that agricultural or veterinary or even other medico-biological graduates are used as bank investment. This is what is envisaged in India under agriclinic, Agribusiness venture. We have trainings not in the hands of banks but universities.
4. Success of Agribusiness:
A systematic liaison and support system between Govt. banking and University culture has made this otherwise an remunerative and lucerative programmes into a failure inspite of its personal monitoring of PMO. The success of Agri-business and Agri-clinics success rates are shown in table 1. The universities involve and their success stories are shown in table 2. Both these details are distressing inspite of huge moral, financial support from Govt. This is inspite of subsidiary support table 3.
Various ventures are listed in table 4 - 7. Agricultural professionals are getting converted into Agribusiness and agri-clinical experts. More than 14,000 applicants and 615 agriclinics came to existence in Indian 12 states. The agri clinic trained persons in J&K many number in hundreds. Among them 34 have registered agri clinics earning a handsome profit annually.
We visited Bandipora district and unregistered Agriclinics were earning a handsome salary, more than the Rahbar-e-zerat or Agriculture Asstt. A visit documentary is enclosed and shall be shown. It consisted of Agribusiness viz sale of pesticides, cattle feed, poultry feed and agri-extension services. At a small village in Papchan, one agri graduate Mr. Iqbal Shah earns Rs. 10,000/- per month by selling the services and input. At a distance of few kms. In same district one Mr. Khyatlani owns a big poultry farm and earns around Rs. 20,000/- per month. Both these entrepreneurs employ 2-3 persons at present. Similarly, the success shown by one Mr. Shah at Malangam in Agri products and pesticide sale and one Mr. Bhat in Dairy production and milk product sale earn a handsome income besides generating employment for poor.
5. Farmer as Entrepreneur
Indian Farming and farmer has to change if proper WTO recommendation and GATT agreements are to be followed.
The present day poultry scenario has emerging high profile agri-business prospects in India.
The conversion of poultry farmer’s into poultry entrepreneurs shall make the present day 6% contribution of poultry products to 25% share of Global market from India and China. This when translated into action shall increase employment generation by manifolds. The introduction of rural based Vanraja, Gramapriya, Giriraja, Cari Gold and vast other locally grown varieties of poultry have adopted well to our agri-rural base. The market acceptability is higher than exotic poultry concerns. Research to farmers doors in generating free-rang-poultry is like BT cotton hybrid spreading through villages of India and assuring high returns and exports (wani, 2007).
6. Poultry as Agri-business
Dr. Gordon Butland, president of Global poultry strategies presents “Backyard poultry production” as a tool of alleviating poverty and malnutrition. We have tried to distribute “birds” under free-rang system in all our KVK’s our results were excellent and income generation was totally in favour of the Agri-business and agri-clinics as will be shown in case histories and success stories.
A grand show of using poultry, rabbit meat processing introduction at SKUAST-K have innovated white meat usage. Our own preparation could be seen in Figs 1-3.
This all will need the involvement of Agri-Veterinary and food processing technocrats to develop rural-based establishments so as to faster export and fast returns.
7. Holistic Vision for Livestock Enterprise.
Improving income, employment and self-reliance are among educated graduates and un-employed youth especially women needs fostering community development, women empowerment, environmental protection. Rural-based backyard poultry subscribes to all these norms and could be a rich resource for developing agri-entrepreneurship. Govt. of India is liberally financing such agri-business ventures and a proposed infrastructure cost set-up can be seen in table 8. A vast and finance assured schemes are available for agri-graduates for establishing poultry ventures (table 9). An initial allocation of 107 crores for initiating nucleus breeding farms. Further more provision of hatcheries to provide chicks to more than 2 lac farmers and farm women will need many agri-business centres for providing basic germplasm, medicine and above all training.
Some of the success stories in animal husbandry section can be reproduced as follows:
a. Backyard poultry and incubation
Though the Vanraja are the most suitable for back yard poultry, they do not have habit of broodiness. There is a problem among the farmer to get a broody hen in all season. KVK solve this problem of hatching by installing small unit of hatchery. Every month 15-20 farmers are benefited by purchasing chicks for backyard poultry. There 200 back yard poultry units of Vanraja. Each farmer is rearing 10 to 25 in the backyard. There is a good demand and response for the chicks and eggs of Vanraja. KVKs are now planning to expand this unit.
b. Semi-stall-fed Goat Rearing
KVK’s made an intervention to improve this enterprise by conducting short durational training programmes for rural youth. Similarly exposure visit were organized on goat feed, breed and health management. More emphasis was given on O)smanabadi goat and up-gradation in selected non-descript goat breed by osmanabadi pure buck and given the knowledge about semi stallfed goat rearing concept.
c. Broiler Production
KVK has conducted many durational training programmes for 165 trainees. Due to training and demonstrations awareness was increased about contract farming in broiler production with private sector which provide chicks, feed and medicine and after 40 days purchases Rs. 3 to 3.50 per kg on live weight and FCR basis and changed their attitude. They acquired skills through learning by doing at KVK demonstration unit.
The technology has been adopted by 10 percent of youths now in the radius of 20 km there are 27 poultry units having capacity of 5000-10000 poultry birds on contract farming basis. These self employed rural youth earning Rs 10000-15000 per lot.
Recently a seminar-cum-farmer’s meet was arranged at SKUAST-K on 26-27th of Oct.2007. The knowledge –sharing and use for making agricultural graduate and scientists was emphasized by our worthy Chancellor. A vision of poverty alleviation through backyard poultry intervention was the theme of the seminar. Many belts in Gurez, Tangdar, Telail and Zanskar are rearing native livestock species. Who are better suited and need improvement and identification. The cooking methods will need more expansion and scientific intervention for export. More emphasis has to be made on:
• Safe feed and food.
• Organic fodder and food.
• Operational excellence and modern mechanization to improve quality of indigenous enterprises.
• Local family management to farm business management and seller-buyer medol adoption.

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If you were asked about your finances at night, awaken from sleep will you remember the figures? Will you remember your deposits, your debts, your net savings, your average monthly expenses? Not many of us can answer these questions. Money is one of the most important parts of our life, but we do not know much about our own finances in precise terms. Is that not surprising?

Money management plays a very vital role in success. If you were to put the same questions to a very successful person, you will get all the answers with analysis thrown in for good measure. Those who make very big money understand the importance of money management. Unless you manage your money, you will not be able to make best use of it. I would discuss few important parts of money management here.

Debt- do not take debt if you can manage without that. The thought that you have debt makes you feel uncomfortable and kills enthusiasm. Ask two persons about their life- one who has no debt but lives very simply and other who has debts and lives lavishly. You will find out that one without debt is enjoying his/her life more.

Increase Savings - Save more and spend less. Your savings will not only be useful for a rainy day but also create a war chest for you that can be used when the right opportunity arrives.

Increase Profits- target good profits and try to reach that figure in your business. If you are employed, set targets for your salary and achieve it.

Reduce Costs - Wherever possible, reduce costs. Avoid all unnecessary expenditure. Reduce every cost. Live frugally till you save your first million. After that it will become easy to earn more and spend more. If you do that right from the beginning, you will never be able to save your first million.

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It's not hard to get yourself in a hole that requires bankruptcy to bail you out these days. All of the expenses in our lives, plus the debts from loans big and small, credit card bills, and other miscellaneous debts add up and create a helpless stress. You feel like the only way out is bankruptcy.

Though it is an option, it should be a last option, behind managing credit card debt, and practicing good money management habits.

There is also debt settlement plans to help you out of your situation as well. This actually is a rather quick solution, helping you get out of your problem in a relatively short period of time. Finding a debt consultant to help you, you'll begin to feel a strong sense of relief when your balances are cut down significantly through the process. However, this does not mean you're in the clear, it's simply a way to help give you wiggle room.

The way this works essentially is that you'll contact a debt settlement consultant with a lot of experience, and they will help you with all of the forms and paperwork involved. He or she will also go over the details of how such a program works. Basically, besides settling with lenders on cutting your payments down, they will also consolidate your debt and help you recover your original financial standing, again within a pretty short period.

You will be evaluated to see if you're qualified for the program or not. Your expected monthly budget will then be calculated to see what needs to be placed aside for meeting the settlement payments.

This can obviously bring a huge amount of relief to your life.

If you can't see in front of your face because of all of the bills that lay ahead, including your car payment, your medical bills, school loans, credit card bills then this is the program that you should enroll in as soon as possible. These loans that you're having problems with are unsecured, and if they're not managed well, you've got a ton of problems ahead of you, as well as your personal assets being at risk.

Money management is a skill that we should be taught very early on, however this country seems to look the other way on this aspect of life, and just throw us out to the lions. You can think of this as a life lesson, however you only want to have to learn it once. It's easy to learn however when you make use of your debt management consultant, and very soon your social and financial status can be pieced back in place.

These plans can help you get out of trouble in as short as five years. How long it takes actually depends on you, and your willingness to work hard at getting yourself out of trouble. It's so easy to resort back to our destructive ways that get us in so much trouble.

Choose your plan wisely and be responsible with your second, and perhaps last chance of having a financial life.

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Increasing wealth and net worth is about more then just making good investments or even "getting lucky". The key to lasting wealth comes from good money management. Do you realize just how many people are millionaires? The numbers may surprise you. The person sitting next to you could very well be a millionaire. Your neighbor that lives across the street could also be a millionaire.

The most common misconception that most people have about the wealthy is that they always drive around in fast and fancy cars, take lavish vacations, and live on large estates. While that may be true of some people, but the majority of the wealthy live normal lives and go to normal jobs. The reason? They realize that uncontrolled spending can lead to uncontrollable credit and unfortunately as has been the trend, bankruptcy. There are several points that one could use to compare their wealth plan with their actions to see if they are truly heading in the right financial direction.

Do You Save? Sure everyone tries to save a little here and there, but to truly become a financial success a regular savings plan that is part of a well-balance budget. Saving money isn't always easy. The advice of a financial advisor or even the use of money management software can help you plot a financial route. Planning for emergencies, educations and even mundane expenses should be part of a budget.

Certainly there are people who have stumbled upon their fortunes either by inheriting it hitting it big in the stock markets. That is a very rare occurrence and those who frivolously invest in every scheme imaginable to strike it rich usually just end up the complete opposite. Again proper money management is key.

Planning to save means that you determine now where you want to be and then follow in a patter of saving and investing that makes it possible to meet that goal. Of course a balanced portfolio utilizes more then just a savings plan. Investing in mutual funds and stocks should really carry and equal share of the load. Good money management also means controlled spending. A perfect example is that of an NFL player.

It is hard to believe that people who make enough in a couple of years for most of us to retire on would have any kind of money problems, but year after year players get themselves into financial binds and end up in the red. The reason is poor spending habits. Spending money on anything from a sports car and matching house for mom to an expensive dog house, they forget how important it is to save thinking they will always have enough. That is almost never the case. For these stars they should be saving more then they are spending in a year to be prepared for premature retirement or other emergencies. Only by controlling spending habits and developing solid money management skills can a person, star or not, ensure that they will be financially secure for the future.
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Type your summary hereMost traders think forex money management is just placing a stop and it's much more than that. Good money management can turn a losing system into a winner and mediocre system into one that makes triple digit gains.

If you want to win long term at forex trading, you need to defend what you have and keep losses small. As the old saying goes - to win you need to bet and you can't bet if you're not at the table! Obvious but true.

Most traders pay very little attention to money management - but it's the cornerstone of your forex trading strategy's success, so let's look at some tips you can incorporate in your forex trading strategy and become a winner.

Leverage

The first point to keep in mind is don't use all the leverage your broker gives you.

They will in many instances give you up to 400:1 and it's tempting to use it all however, if you do you will blow your account out the water.

A good leverage is maybe 10 - 20:1.

Trading Frequency

Cut your trading frequency back.

Most novice traders simply trade too much and take low odds trades. The good opportunities don't come around often and you need to be patient and wait for them.

I know traders who trade less than 20 times a year and make triple digit annual gains so - trade only when high odds trades present themselves.

Deciding Bet Size

How much should you risk on one trade?

Common wisdom often says 2% but for a small account this risk is so small it means 20 on 1,000 account. Well you won't make much money doing that! Risk 10 - 20% of your account equity on any single trade.

Forex trading is all about taking calculated risks at the right time and making meaningful bets - if you don't like risk don't trade forex.

Diversification

If you have a small account and a good trade and you think can make big profits, don't dilute its potential. Diversification is not guaranteed to reduce risk and in most instances dilutes gains.

Always Assume the Worst

Many traders think their risk reward is their stop minus their profit objective - but that's a trader's opinion nothing more. When entering a trade always assume the worst eventuality and from there, things can only get better!

The Biggest Mistake of Novice Traders!

In money management placing a stop is normally easy, where most traders go wrong is the way they trail it.

Most traders get so excited when they get a profit, they don't want to let it get away and they immediately move their stop up to close and get stopped out on a normal counter trend swing. The market then immediately goes back the way they thought and makes thousands and their not in!

To make the really big profits, you must accept drawdown in the short term in your open equity, to bank the big profits. Look at any forex chart and you will see that the big trends last weeks, months or in some instances years and you need to hold them as long as possible.

A good way to do this is a key moving average and we like the 40 day MA, then look for trend line support or resistance just below it. It's far enough back to keep you in the trend but close enough to protect you.

Forex money management is all about taking calculated risks at the right time.

It's a fact that most traders try so hard to avoid risk, they take too little which guarantees they lose. The above money management tips if used correctly will balance the risk reward just right and lead you to triple digit gains.

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