Promotion of agriculture and allied sectors is a sine qua non for India’s development.While the advent of scientific farming practices and modern management strategies have benefited agriculturists the world over, St.Dominic's College

third world countries like India, still lag behind in production and profit in agriculture.

The avenues opened by latest developments in agricultural and management sciences including biotechnology and information technology have opened a paradise of opportunities in plantation crops management. Biotechnological approaches have resulted in production of high quality disease resistant planting materials. Information technology has opened the gateway to international market trends. Scientific soil fertility management using organic and bio fertilizers, satellite remote sensing and weather forecast, mechanization, product diversification and value addition along with effective human relations management make agriculture a highly productive and richly remunerative venture.

Efforts to empower the new generation planters with the latest know-how and managerial efficiency is the need of the hour.

THE INSTITUTE

St. Dominic’s Institute of Management (SIM) is an autonomous entity of St. Dominic’s College, Kanjirapally. Based on the University Grants Commission directive of identifying extension as the third dimension of education SIM is committed to offer academic training programmes in innovative disciplines of contemporary relevance.

THE COLLEGE

St. Dominic’s College, Kanjirappally, affiliated to the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam is a centre of higher learning and reaserch, well known for its high academic standards and discipline. Established in the year 1965, the college today offers eight undergraduate and four post graduate courses. The college was elevated as a centre for research in commerce in 1997.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

Education is incomplete without interacting with the immediate society. This is a reciprocative symbiotic process promoting both. Post-Graduate Diploma in Plantation Management (PGDPM) course will establish a live link between the farming community and the Institute. Kanjirappally, the region traditionally known as the ‘Queen of Malanadu’, the homeland of plantations in Kerala, can proudly claim the rich and legitimate heritage of sowing the first seeds of plantation industry in South India. The great farmer-visionaries here own a major share in the greener side of nation building. The Course is an attempt to rekindle that tradition of enormous agricultural vision and dedication to the newer generations.

OUR VISION

	To empower the new generation to recognise agriculture and allied activities as a self-employment venture with self-respect and as a remunerative primary profession.
	To develop human resource with the technical skill and the management potential needed to identify plantation management as a career suiting plantation industry.

OUR MISSION

	To frame an effective, academic training programme, which nurtures the felt needs of the farming community.
	To provide a new direction to farming based on spirituality of hardwork, culture of agriculture and a sense of identity, dignity and discipline.

For further enquires and details contact :

St. Dominic's Institute of Management (SIM)

St. Dominic's College, Kanjirappally, Kottayam,

Kerala, India. Pin - 686 512

Tel. : 91-482-802540

E-mail : dominic@md2.vsnl.net.in