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As the population of human beings is increasing, everyone is concerned about food security. In India, the problem of weeds is like pouring oil on fire in the context of food security. Several weeds are responsible for that but Parthenium hysterophorusL. is the most harmful amongst them. It is reported as the major source of botheration and health hazards to life in general and also a threat to biodiversity and the environment. Various efforts have been made for its control but without much success. It would be worthy if one can develop a strategy by which the valuable nutrients of the weed biomass could be released, recycled, and reach again to the soil for the expected crop. Composting might be used in the conversion of its biomass to an applicable material. This article will provide imprecise information for various methods of composting the weed.

Conversational Artificial Intelligence (CAI) is a combination of Conversational Commerce, Chatbot, Voicebot and Virtual Assistant. CAI has enabled interstellar opportunities for large companies, collaborating with start-ups towards sustainable development. This has to simplify the services and optimised customer bookings, utility payments, queries, complaints and resolutions. CAI aided with a framework based on Technopreneurship Innovation (TIN) has been adopted at different stages of the start-up life cycle, hence, ensuring sustainable development with growth. A qualitative case study method of examination and enquiry, with an interpretive ontology, was tested for AI-based firms established between 2013 and 2020 across India in the services sector. Through purposive sampling, the Haptik application (app) for the case study was selected for investigation deploying inductive reasoning. The results stated that CAI is a futuristic living and is here to stay for industries like banks, travel, tourism, hospitality, insurance, healthcare, education, agriculture, e-commerce, retail, etc.

Entrepreneurship has always been a central point of discussion amongst educators, practitioners and policymakers, besides the incumbents intending to emerge as an entrepreneur. Other than the core of venture creation, these entrepreneurs have a critical role to play in the wealth creation, resource optimisation and economic development of the region they belong to. Hence, they must reflect or possess some kind of foresightedness to be sustainable and contributory in their long-standing entrepreneurial journey, which is a turbulent one. The authors, tabled their diverse experience after reviewing the extent literature on entrepreneurship realising that there is a critical need to identify and classify these firms engaged in true sense of entrepreneurship, before embarking upon the principal research question, which is, 'do entrepreneurial firms possess foresightedness in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world? ' We selected enterprises seeded between 2000-2019, examining their entrepreneurial journey, using qualitative method and interpretivism.

Do incumbent entrepreneurs possess foresight? The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed, leaving us unshielded against unknowns. It has altered our approach becoming a prodigious Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous (VUCA) moment. The post-COVID-19 world is likely to break the classical models of existing economic theories, compelling economies, and businesses to improvise their business models for sustaining in the 'new normal'. It requires a complex symphony between hindsight-insight-foresight combination to steer a deeper understanding. This statement embarks upon a principal research question, as to how do entrepreneurial firms muster resources in building sustainable and resilient strategies while surviving in a VUCA world? The authors deployed exploratory design, using case method for capturing insights on resilient strategies adopted by an entrepreneurial firm, Zolostays. This enterprise validated the proposition of optimal unification of entrepreneurial orientation and building resilient strategies indispensable for any organisation against the unfavourable and turbulent VUCA situations.