Entrepreneurial Behavior of the Agro-Processing Complex Owners, Trained by Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana

Agro-processing complexes play a vital role in overall economic development of the farmers. In this paper, attempt has been made to examine the “Entrepreneurial behavior of the agripreneurs of Punjab ’ ’, who had established agro-processing complexes after getting trained from PAU, Ludhiana. The findings revealed that 68 percent of the agripreneurs had risk-taking ability from medium to high. A little less than (47.15 percent) agripreneurs had high hope of success. More than 90 percent of the agripreneurs had medium to high innovativeness. More than half (55.73percent) of the agripreneurs had medium overall entrepreneurial behavior. Land owned, income and mass media exposure of the agripreneurs had positive and significant relationship with entrepreneurial behavior of the agripreneurs at one percent level of significance.