Agricultural Entrepreneurship Research Articles

Investigation of Technical, Financial and Marketing Needs of Agripreneurs in Karnataka

Agripreneurship is a key factor in removal of poverty and to bring economic progress of India. As Indian economy is basically an agrarian economy; it can serve as a platform for agricultural entrepreneurship, food processing and other allied activities. A study was undertaken in 2022 in Karnataka state. Snowball sampling technique was employed for the selection of agripreneurs and about 200 agripreneurs were interviewed covering 30 enterprises across 14 districts of Karnataka. The study was conducted with the help of pre-tested schedule through personal interview method. Rank Based Quotient (RBQ) technique was employed to analyze the needs of agripreneurs. From the results of the study, it can be found that adequate infrastructure facilities and required inputs, provision of subsidies to reduce initial cost of investment and strategic solution for competition around found to be the major technical need, financial need and marketing need of agripreneurs respectively. And also, it can be suggested that Government and extension agencies have to take some measures like certainty in prices, provision of subsidies and creating awareness regarding modern techniques, and financial and marketing assistance to agripreneurs which will help them to earn more income and also inspires others to start new agrienterprise.

Maintaining Quality of Life during the Pandemic: Managing Economic, Social, and Health Well-Being Amid the COVID-19 Crisis of Agricultural Entrepreneurs

Every sphere of life is being impacted by COVID-19, but little is known about how the pandemic is affecting agricultural entrepreneurs’ quality of life in developing nations. Therefore, this study examined how COVID-19 affected agricultural entrepreneurs’ quality of life by utilizing the data collected from 220 females and 1501 males through multistage purposive and random sampling methods. The dataset was analyzed using ordered logistic regression and principal component analysis. The study results indicated that female agricultural entrepreneurs’ quality of life was more adversely affected than that of male agricultural entrepreneurs during COVID-19. The findings also showed that male and female agricultural entrepreneurs with a lower socioeconomic status were more severely impacted than male and female agricultural entrepreneurs with a higher socioeconomic status. More female agricultural entrepreneurs compared to males reported that the pandemic had a negative impact on their mental health. More than two-thirds of both male and female agricultural entrepreneurs reported that the pandemic had a negative impact on their ability to purchase both food and non-food items. Similar to this, a sizable majority of people of both sexes stated that COVID-19 had an impact on their ability to access medical facilities. The results also showed that COVID-19 had a greater impact on married agricultural entrepreneurs’ quality of life than on single people. Therefore, a paradigm shift in agricultural policy is required for the pandemic response to account for COVID-19’s various effects on different genders and socioeconomic groups in rural areas.

Student Interest of the Faculty of Agriculture, Musi Rawas University For Entrepreneurship in Agriculture


 This study aims to determine the interest of students of the Faculty of Agriculture, Musi Rawas University in entrepreneurship in agriculture. This research was conducted at the Faculty of Agriculture, Musi Rawas University from October 2020 to January 2021. The research method used in this research was a descriptive survey method for students of the Faculty of Agriculture, Musi Rawas University. The sampling method uses stratified random sampling, namely by paying attention to a level (strata) in the population elements. In stratified random sampling, population elements are grouped at certain levels with the aim of sampling to be evenly distributed throughout the study program and the sample representing the character of all heterogeneous population elements. The data generated from this study will be analyzed using descriptive analysis methods and interval scales. The results showed that the level of student interest in entrepreneurship seen from the average value of the research results indicator was 32, which means that the interest of students of the Faculty of Agriculture, Musi Rawas University in entrepreneurship in agriculture was in the interesting category.

Exploring Putative Factors Affective Prospective Students’ of the University for Development Students: A Case Study of the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Sciences, Nyankpala Campus-Ghana

The expansion of the higher education industry has caused a tremendous increase in the number and type of colleges, polytechnics and universities offering similar academic programmes in Ghana. As a consequence, the competition in the higher education industry makes it critical for education leadership and managers to deploy strategies that would influence students’ choice of a higher education institution and programme selection. The paper is an exploratory study designed to identify the important factors that influence students’ choice of university and particularly the programme. Data was collected through telephone interviews with students who were offered admissions to pursue agricultural related courses in the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Sciences of the University for Development Studies. About 320 students were randomly selected from the 1280 students offered admission to the faculty in the 2021/20222 Academic Year. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and presented in graphs and tables. The study found that 53.75% of the respondents declined their admission to offer Agriculture related programs because that was not their choice of programme. It further identified that most of those who declined the offer had applied for health related programmes where they were sure after completion could easily be employed. The study therefore, recommends a programme to educate prospective students on the job prospects, opportunities and benefits of pursuing agricultural related programmes. Government should also put in place measures to attract the graduate youth into Agricultural entrepreneurship.

Adopting new technologies during the crisis: An empirical analysis of agricultural sector

Research and development in agricultural sector are becoming a crucial issue, especially to answer to growing global market needs and, in general, for rural innovation development. The innovation process involves stakeholders of all levels and rural development requires both personal farmers' characteristics along with favourable socio-political and infrastructural environment. Many countries and governments have executed innovation projects for agricultural firms, involving a number of actors from the public and private sectors. However, the literature lacks of studies that investigate the identification of the main factors that determine the agricultural entrepreneurs' probability to adopt new technologies during a crisis context. Thus, through the adoption of the Extended Theory of Planned Behaviour, this study aims at filling this lack. More specifically, the exploratory empirical analysis focuses on a sample of 130 agricultural entrepreneurs operating in a rural developing Italian region, during the historical context of global pandemic crisis of COVID-19. The results provided several insights showing the factors that influence the adoption of technologies, such as the Attitude to Environmental-Economic Sustainability and the Planned Behavioural Control. An important role is also assumed by the past farmer's technological experience. The paper offers implications for entrepreneurs and public government.

Negative family events and Chinese farmers' entrepreneurship: The moderating role of socioeconomic status

We investigated the influence of negative family events, classified as familymember-based events and property-based events, on Chinese farmers' entrepreneurship. In addition, borrowing insights from conservation of resources theory, we tested the moderating role of socioeconomic status in the relationships between these two types of negative family events and farmers' entrepreneurial behavior. We used data collected from 2,513 farmer households in Jiangsu Province, China, to show family-member-based negative events had a significant negative association with farmers' entrepreneurship, whereas property-based negative events had a significant positive association with farmers' entrepreneurship. Moreover, socioeconomic status weakened the negative impact of family-member-based negative events on farmers' entrepreneurship and enhanced the positive impact of property-based negative events on farmers' entrepreneurship. Our research contributes to the literature on farmers' entrepreneurship by incorporating the role of negative family events. Farmer entrepreneurs should take into consideration the influence of different family-based events.

Youth Intention on Agricultural Entrepreneurship

Youth involvement in the agricultural entrepreneurship sector plays an important role in addressing the unemployed, food security, and environmental challenge. Tactlessly, most of the youth have no intention to engage in the agricultural entrepreneurship sector due to negative perceptions. The main objective of this study was to determine the youth’s intention for agricultural entrepreneurship. The independent variables were attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control while the dependent variable was agricultural entrepreneurship intention. The quantitative research adapted from Theory Planned Behaviour (TPB) has been employed. 200 youth in Malaysia were selected through the purposive sampling technique and complete data were analysed through descriptive analysis. The finding of the study found that the level of youth intention on agricultural entrepreneurship, attitude, and perceived behavioural control is a moderate mean score, while the subjective norm is a high mean score. This study created empirical data useful for the 12th Malaysia Plan and National Food Security policy 2.0 in encouraging agricultural entrepreneurship engagement among youth to boost economic growth besides improving food security and a green environment.

PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTUS OF AGRIPRENEURS-AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

India is an agricultural nation with good land availability for agricultural activities, and a sizable population is still engaged in agriculture and enterprises that are related to it. Agripreneurship may boost the economy, increase revenue, and open many business opportunities in rural regions. Effective agricultural entrepreneurship efforts may also help the agripreneurs who are dealing with long-term economic issues including urbanization, poverty, and unemployment. They deal with issues like financial difficulties in supporting farmers, promoting agricultural products, transportation, women's emancipation, tribal youth development, and a few others. These issues include income diversification, growth, increased employment, new technology, and the best possible use of the available resources. The main issue with liberalization, privatization and globalization is that the entire region has become like a neighbouring market in which our farmers and commodities will have to compete with foreign companies in terms of quality and price. The Indian economy is primarily agrarian. Agriculture directly employs around 65 percent of the Indian people and accounts for 16-17 percent of India's GDP. The present survey is being conducted in the Ongole area of the Prakasam district, Andhra Pradesh. The paper is aimed at problems &prospects of agriprenures. The questionnaire is prepared with 21 relevant questions to collect primary data. Respondents were asked to respond on five points lickered scale. The questionnaire is given to 128 people among agriprenures and 105 are returned and 90 responded properly. To analyses, the primary M.S excel has been used. Channel of distribution & Financial support is as significantly affecting the agrepreneurs.

Analysis of Spain’s experience in the organization agricultural production insurance

Food security issues in Russia are becoming a priority in the context of an increase in the level of influence of climate risks on all aspects of the economic and social life of society, as well as changes in the political balance of power. The development of agricultural production requires the use of modern technologies and state support for the agricultural entrepreneur in the conditions of the predominance of risky farming zones, which is typical for the territory of the Russian Federation. Insurance is one of the important tools for ensuring the stability, continuity and payback of agricultural production, which has been used for a long time and effectively in many developed countries.The subject of research in this article is the analysis, generalization and evaluation of the experience of building an agricultural risk insurance system in the EU countries. The object of the study is the territory of Spain, as the country that has achieved the greatest success in using the insurance tool, one of the effective methods of managing agricultural risks. The results of the study are to identify the advantages of the system of organization and interaction of participants in the insurance protection of an agricultural entrepreneur in Spain, which can be adapted for use in Russia.

Narrative Insights Reveal the Motivations of Young Agricultural Entrepreneurs in Laos

The participation of youth in agricultural entrepreneurship (agripreneurship) is beneficial for the sustainable development of agrarian societies that are transitioning towards the commercialization of agriculture. Accordingly, we investigated the phenomena that motivate practicing young, small- and medium-scale agripreneurs to pursue their careers, using the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Laos) as a case study. To achieve this, we applied narrative inquiry techniques to the accounts of 74 young Laotian agripreneurs regarding their entry into agripreneurship. This enabled us to identify and describe common and influential paradigms that were subsequently interpreted from the perspective of entrepreneurship and behavioral studies of career decision making to explain the influence of motivations on the young agripreneurs. Our study has shown that despite the characteristics that set agripreneurship in Laos apart from entrepreneurship in general, commonly identified typologies of entrepreneurial motivation, particularly income, extrinsic benefits and emotional paradigms also motivate Lao youth to become agripreneurs. The application of narrative inquiry has revealed the emphasis some practicing agripreneurs in Laos place on the attainability of their career, which resulted in its practice by both opportunity-driven and necessity-driven entrepreneurs, with implications for the sustainable development of other countries in transition to commercial agriculture.

Return migration, rural household investment decision, and poverty alleviation: Evidence from rural Guangdong, China

AbstractReturn migration has been considered advantageous to the productivity of labor and the economic development of origin regions and countries. However, how and why return migrants make their investment decisions and how such processes contribute to poverty alleviation remains unclear. This study evaluated how migration experience influences rural families' choices for productive investments and the underlying mechanism of village poverty alleviation. The result indicates that, when all are given the same monetary budgets, return migrants are more inclined to invest in single agricultural‐related subjects rather than multiple subjects. A concentrated investment implies the investor's intention of expanding the production scale, which can further lead to a more organized, professional agricultural production that can be considered beneficial for community poverty alleviation. Moreover, different approaches of human capital accumulation led to varied capacity growth, among which migration experience effectively enhances the non‐cognitive ability of return migrants. Based on these findings, we suggest that more returnee‐preferential policies, supporting production and organization services should be established to promote agricultural entrepreneurship among the returning groups in poor rural areas.

Motivational Factors of Women Entrepreneurs in Agribusiness Entrepreneurial Development in Malaysia

Successful women entrepreneurs are recognized through their strong motivation, desire, and capabilities to enhance economic development and increase entrepreneurial diversity in a range of various economic contexts. Motivation comprises biological, emotional, social, and cognitive components that drive behavior and agribusiness entrepreneurship. Given the important role played by women in contributing to the development of entrepreneurial activities in agribusiness, this study therefore aims to examine the motivating factors for women involved in agricultural entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial development in agribusiness. An online survey was conducted among women entrepreneurs in Malaysia, and descriptive analysis and multiple regression analyses were employed to analyze the data quantitatively. The findings revealed that women in the study area mostly received support from implicit and explicit motivation, such as psychological characteristics and competencies to achieve their business goals and boost their efforts in uplifting economic wellbeing and developing the agribusiness sector. Women who engaged in community development were highly influenced by connections and attitude motivational patterns that predict entrepreneur behavior. Hence, activities that led to increased motivation for women to improve their competency, power, and involvement in agribusiness should be fully supported. These factors enhanced job creation and built their credibility in agricultural entrepreneurship development.

Socioeconomic determinants of the creation of farm business by youth in north-western Benin

The high potentials of the agricultural sector in terms of income and jobs in Benin contrasts with unemployment among youth. Thus, this study investigated the socioeconomic factors determining the creation of farm business by youth in the northwest of Benin. Based on a random sample of 198 young farmers and with the criteria of labor and market dependence, a typology of the farms was made. Then, an analysis of the determinants of farm business creation was carried out by using a logistic regression model. The results showed that there are four types of farms in the study area, namely: modern farm business, family farm business, modern family farm and peasant family farm. Whereas “family farm business” is characterized by both a dominance of market dependence and a family labor, the most developed form, the “modern family farm,” is characterized by both a dominance of self-consumption and a hired labor, adopted by few. Based on the market dependence criterion only, those four farming types were re-grouped into two main types: family farm and farm business. Whereas family farm is characterized by a dominance of self-consumption, farm business is market-oriented. From this typology, it emerged that there are more farmers with basic education and basic training in agriculture, belonging to an agricultural association and having land ownership in farm businesses than in family farms. The results also showed that professional training in agriculture and land ownership positively influenced the creation of farm business, whereas, savings, number of family agricultural workers and contact with agricultural extension services negatively influenced it. This suggests that making credit more attractive and developing a new type of coaching to support young entrepreneurs would be more favorable to the emergence of farm businesses. Integrating these results could help to improve the orientation of policies and projects devoted to promoting agricultural entrepreneurship among youth in Benin. Key words: Farmers, Agri-business, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Employment of youth, Farming, Determinants, Benin

AGRITOURISM ENTREPRENEURS ON THE OTHER SIDE: MOTIVATION AND CHALLENGES

Balik Pulau is situated on the remote western part of Penang island. It offers greener and calmer environment compared to the busy Georgetown city. It is famously known among locals for producing high quality durians. Thus, making it a prospective hotspot for agritourism entrepreneurs. This article explores the agritourism activity in Balik Pulau to better understand the motivation and challenges faced by agritourism entrepreneurs in the area. Through in-depth interviews with limited number of willing entrepreneurs, this study has established that the motivation of agricultural entrepreneurs highly depends on their goals in operating the sites. Their motivations are also influenced by financial situation, health concern and eagerness to share and preserve ethnic and agricultural knowledge. This study has identified five challenges faced by agritourism entrepreneurs which are (i) inadequate support from government and private sectors, (ii) difficulties in employing staffs, (iii) insufficient infrastructure, (iv) seasonal income and (v) encroaching urban development. This article suggests Balik Pulau to be marketed as Penang’s agritourism hub and a one-stop centre for durian lovers and agritourism activities.

A Review on Women Agri- Entrepreneurship: Roles and opportunities in Agriculture for Sustainable Growth in India

Agriculture sector provides vast scope for employment generation, sustainable growth, and women empowerment. Continuously growing Indian population requires adequate amount of nutrition forfeeding the youth population to work for countries growth. As per Indian scenario, farmers are giving their best to growing crops as per the need of hour for economic gains and life improvement through livelihood promotions. Indian women have also been playing role in this sector. Empowering Indian women farmers and agripreneurs can lead to increase the income generation and self-sufficiency. There are vast opportunities in agriculture like cultivation of crops with higher economic value,value addition and marketing of agricultural produce on global scale can be vital at this point of time. Indian Women have been actively engaged in all type of agricultural practices to earn economic gains for the family. Still in agriculture sector Indian women farmers condition and status is having labourers tag with themselves. They should be compensated appropriately for their efforts encouraging them to be renowned farm owners and leading agripreneurs in the country. Womenagripreneurs require handholding, technical support and skill development from Government through schemes, initiatives and training programmes. Women agripreneurs are the key to achieve sustainable growth. Although, Government has launched various schemes for upliftment of women agripreneurs but still there is a lot to achieve for enabling women groups from rural and tribal areas to earn economic gains from agriculture sector. This review study provides insights into the scope of agriculture entrepreneurship for upliftment of Indian women. Major roles, opportunities and challenges for Indian women to conquer in agriculture sector to achieve sustainable growth.

Entrepreneurial Literacy of Peasant Families during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case in Indonesia

Our research examines peasant families’ entrepreneurial literacy and entrepreneurial behavior. The study was conducted in rural areas of North Morowali. This location is one of the agricultural bases in the Central Sulawesi Province (Indonesia). We employ a qualitative approach with a case study. The data were gathered through observation and in-depth interviews with six peasants. The key respondents were chosen through judgment sampling. The key respondents comprised two lowland rice peasants, two cocoa peasants, and two oil palm peasants. Despite the socio-economic restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, peasant families continue to engage in agricultural entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial literacy is obtained from interaction with the internal and external environment before the COVID-19 pandemic. The entrepreneurial literacy of peasant families denotes the knowledge and understanding of cultivation systems, quality seeds and seedlings, plant pests and diseases, fertilizers, pesticides, agricultural technology, post-harvest management, and market access. The low impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in rural areas is also due to its low population density compared to urban areas and limited mobility of peasants, thereby minimizing social contact, and the commodity being cultivated is a food commodity. We developed new insights into the peasants’ literacy and entrepreneurial behavior model during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Does Land Certification Stimulate Farmers’ Entrepreneurial Enthusiasm? Evidence from Rural China

Deepening the reform of rural land property rights and fully releasing the dividends of land policies to stimulate the vitality of rural development are important foundations for China’s Poverty Alleviation and Rural Revitalization strategies. Based on the data of the China Household Finance Surveys in 2013 and 2019, this study takes the new round of land certification launched in 2013 as the starting point for exploring the impact of rural land property rights reform on farmers’ entrepreneurship, using the difference-in-differences model. The results show that the implementation of the new round of land certification has significantly improved the development of agricultural entrepreneurship among farmers with certificates but has had no impact on non-agricultural entrepreneurship. The estimated results from the replacement explained variables, PSM-DID method, and placebo test verifies the robustness of the baseline results. Furthermore, it is shown that the improvement of labor allocation, land transfer, and financing and loan constraints are the main channels through which land certification affects farmers’ entrepreneurship; the impact is heterogeneous at province, community, and household levels. This study not only provides new evidence for using rural land property rights reform to spearhead poverty alleviation and rural revitalization strategies but also provides beneficial reference material for the continuous optimization of land property rights certificates to boost farmers’ entrepreneurship.

Research on the willingness of college students to return to their hometown to start a business under the background of rural revitalization strategy

According to the research of previous scholars, many undergraduate colleges and universities in Liaoning Province have actively organized students to participate in rural revitalization and agricultural entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship competitions. Many students also showed a high willingness to participate, and they also chose to return to their hometown to start a business in the direction of employment. Based on the above background, this paper studies the willingness of college students to return to their hometowns for entrepreneurship, and conducts an online questionnaire survey on college students in Shenyang University of Science and Technology to further understand the degree of understanding of the current entrepreneurial policies, the willingness of college students to return to their hometown to start a business, and the understanding of college students. The current situation of entrepreneurship education, analyzes the influencing factors of college students' willingness to return to their hometown to start a business, and puts forward corresponding countermeasures, in order to provide a reference for the cultivation of talents in rural revitalization.

Access to Land for Agricultural Entrepreneurial Activities in the Context of Sustainable Food Production in Borgou, according to Land Law in Benin

Access to land is crucial for food systems to address the challenges caused by habitat and biodiversity loss, land and water degradation, and greenhouse gas emissions. Sustainable food production requires land security upstream for agricultural production. Land security emanates from the land law implemented in-country by government policy. In the span of a decade (2007–2017), three different land reforms have been adopted in Benin. This paper aims to investigate the land rights and land tenure security for sustainable food production according to land law and the factors that influence agricultural entrepreneurial activities in North Benin. The study was carried out in the Borgou department, mainly in five communes that are beneficiaries of the Responsible Land Policy Project of GIZ (Promotion d’une Politique Foncière Responsible: ProPFR/GIZ). A multistage sampling procedure was used to select the agricultural entrepreneur respondents. A total of 102 agriculture entrepreneurs were interviewed in 25 villages. According to land law in Benin, the results highlight the different levels of land tenure security and land rights represented by types of land documents: type contract (use right), certificates of customary ownership (ADC), and land title. The research reveals that 44.3% of the land of agriculture entrepreneurs’ respondents possessed the certificates of customary ownership and 18% possessed the land title. The facilitation of access to legal land documents such as certificates of customary ownership and land titles can protect agricultural entrepreneurship for sustainable food production.

Fox’s Head or Lion’s Tail? Work Life Balance of Women Entrepreneurs in Agriculture and farm Ventures and its Antecedent Effect on Quality of Life

Purpose: The objective of this study was to identify the factors that influence work life balance of women entrepreneurs in the field of agriculture and allied products and how the family demands affect their work-life balance. Further, the paper explores the conflict between parental demand and running a business. Theoretical framework: Literature review points out that despite, an increase in the number of women entrepreneurs over the years, according to the (Global entrepreneurship monitor report, 2020), fewer women pursue entrepreneurship due to various challenges of managing personal and business responsibilities and striking the right balance. Work-life balance is frequently examined in the context of human resource management (Etienne St-Jean and Duhamel M.,2020)but not much has been explored in an entreprenurial context.Hence this study is to investigate and understand the influence of various factors affecting work life balance from an entrepreneurial standpoint. Design/methodology/approach: Triangulation method was used for the study by utilizing both quantitative and qualitative data. The researchers developed a questionnaire to measure work-life balance experienced by women entrepreneurs with 12 independent variables to measure the dependent variable work-life balance.The sample consisted of 450 women agripreneurs Findings: The findings reveal that the age of the children is a major determinant of the extent of parental demand a woman goes through in her life and family support systems are critical in reducing overlap and conflict between the life domains. A positive spillover between the domains significantly enhances quality of life of women entrepreneurs. Research, Practical & Social implications: We suggest a future research into other Personality traits and macro environmental factors which can have a bearing on work life balance of women entrepreneurs which would enable an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem. Originality/value: The researchers have concluded that positive spillover between the domains significantly enhances quality of life of women entrepreneurs.