Indian Journal of Extension Education
SCOPUS
  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 47
  • Issue: 1and2

Entrepreneurial Orientation of Garlic Producers

  • Author:
  • Pawan Sharma1, M. M. Patel2, V. B. Singh3
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 107 to 112

1Ex student, Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, JNKVV, Indore, M.P

2Senior Scientist, Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, JNKVV, Indore, M.P

3Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, College of Agriculture, JNKVV, Indore, M.P

Online published on 19 August, 2015.

Abstract

The study was conducted in Neemuch district of Madhya Pradesh to investigate the entrepreneurial orientation of garlic producers in terms of socio - personal, agro-economic, extension communication and socio-psychological traits. The data collected from 120 randomly selected respondents revealed that 66.67 per cent of garlic growers were having medium level of entrepreneurial orientation. The study also revealed that the variables viz. age, educational status, social participation, information source utilization, mass media exposure, cosmopoliteness and economic motivation had significant influence on entrepreneurial orientation of garlic producers.