Attitude of agricultural students towards agricultural entrepreneurship

Jayasudha J,Shantha Sheela M

doi:10.29321/maj.10.000489

Abstract

Entrepreneurs are people who realize new opportunities and channelize effort in the proper direction. Now a days the employment opportunities for agricultural professionals in the public sector are shrinking. Rising unemployment among agricultural graduates and market forces made entrepreneurship a best career for the students. To create self-employment opportunities for unemployed agricultural graduates, entrepreneurship is widely regarded as an integral player. Career aspirations and opportunities for agriculture students are usually with in private and public sector jobs. Initiation to become an entrepreneur or to start up agri business among the student community is rare. Inspite of the blooming opportunities available in agri entrepreneurship sector, students may be reluctant to start agri ventures due to some constraints or hesitations. Thus, this study was carried out primarily to understand the attitude of students towards agripreneurship and factors affecting the motivation of students to become an agripreneur among the final year students of B.Sc (Agri) in Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Coimbatore campus. This study showed that majority of the students had a favorable attitude towards agricultural entrepreneurship.

Highlights

Entrepreneur is one who is endowed with more than average capacities in the task of organizing and coordinating the factors of production, i.e. land, labor capital and enterprises
There is a corresponding lack of employment opportunities for agricultural professionals in the public sector
Half of the respondents came from a rural background (50.0%) which made them more interest towards agripreneurship and they had basic knowledge about agriculture

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Introduction

Entrepreneur is one who is endowed with more than average capacities in the task of organizing and coordinating the factors of production, i.e. land, labor capital and enterprises. Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship are arguably the pillars on which economic health of societies was built. Their role has been highlighted in opportunity creation through new ventures and maintenance of existing ones (Evans, 1942).India has the third- largest pool of technical and scientific personnel in the world. We cannot utilize its full potential and on the other hand, there is surplus technical manpower that are unemployed This large pool of technical human resources can be best utilized for developing small-scale industries in the hi-tech areas using improved technologies and scientific methods of production. There is a corresponding lack of employment opportunities for agricultural professionals in the public sector.

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