A business that earns most or all of its revenues from agriculture. An agribusiness tends to be a large-scale business operation and may dabble in farming. Processing and manufacturing and/or the packaging and distribution of products.

The role of intellectual property rights has become a key issue in agricultural and resource economics over the past two decades. The changes in biotechnology and intellectual property protection the have occurred since 1980 make private enterprise possible for the first time in many broad research areas in agriculture and the health sciences. Furthermore, universities, cooperatives and other public and non-profit institutions now have the option of licensing or selling research outputs in this area, rather than giving their results away for free. As the scope and power of IPRs in biotechnology has grown, their international reach has expanded. These developments raise many fascinating and important issues: optimal patent design and licensing. the implications of IPRs under cumulative innovation, typical of agriculture and biotechnology; the effects of the TRIPS agreement on developing countries; the effects of IPRs on monopolization of key sectors; and the optimal way to ensure that the poor of the world have access to pharmaceutical products. IPR helps us in the following areas: (1) Trade Mark related matters. (2) Industrial Designs, (3) Patents and (4) Copyright of the agricultural products. the book will be useful for the students of agribusiness and the people concern with IPR.