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A. N. Sabale ¹, D. D. Suradkar ², B. M. Thombre ³

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Latur, M.S., IN
2 Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture (MKV) Latur, M.S., IN
3 Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani, M.S., IN

Abstract

The present study was conducted in Ashti, Shirur. Patoda, Beed and Kaij tahsils of Beed district. The study is about entrepreneurial behaviour of farmers in relation to personal characteristics in selected areas of Beed district. The study was carried out at twenty five villages of Beed district which were selected randomly. From each village five entrepreneurs (farmers) were selected randomly for study and data were collected by direct interview. Thus, total 125 entrepreneurs were selected for the study, viz., majority of the farmers expressed financial problem, lack of exposure to mass media and information and marketing problem as reported by 76.00, 64.80 and 60.80 per cent, respectively followed by lack of knowledge (55.20%), lack of food grain storage facility (52.00%), labour problem (46.40%) and lack of transportation facilities (44.80%), respectively.

Keywords

Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurial Behaviour, Constraints

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A. N. Sabale ¹, D. D. Suradkar ¹, B. M. Thombre ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Latur, M.S., IN

Abstract

The investigation was conducted during year 2012-2013 to study the entrepreneurial behaviour of farmers in Marathwada region of Maharashtra by selecting 125 respondents through random sampling. A pretested structured interview schedule was used to collect the information through personal interview method. Data analyzed by using mean, frequency, percentage, standard deviation and correlation co-efficient. Majority of farmers (51.20%) belonged to medium level of innovativeness, medium farm decision making (63.20%) with medium achievement motivation (58.40%). About (55.20%) farmers had medium knowledge of farm enterprises with medium (71.20%) risk taking ability. The data revealed that 63.20 per cent had medium information seeking behaviour with low leadership ability (40.00%) and medium cosmopoliteness (56.80%). The overall study revealed that farmers had medium entrepreneurial behaviour. It could be observed that, six independent variables i.e. farming experience, education, land holding, annual income, assets and level of aspiration showed positive and significant relationship at 0.05 level of probability, whereas extension contact showed positive and significant relationship at 0.01 level of probability and three independent variables i.e. occupation, social participation and mass media use had non significant relationship with their entrepreneurial behaviour.

Keywords

Entrepreneurial Behaviour

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