1Senior Research Fellow, Division of Agricultural Extension, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi
2Ex-Professor Emeritus, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Sciences, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
3Head, Department of Agricultural Extension and Communication, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Sciences, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
4Associate Professor, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
Online published on 4 October, 2019.
The study was conducted with 120 dairy farmers selected from Chaka block of Prayagraj (Allahabad) district of Uttar Pradesh who are practicing dairy to find out the level of entrepreneurial behaviour of dairy farmers. The nine components of entrepreneurial behaviour namely innovativeness, achievement motivation, decision-making ability, co-ordination ability, planning ability, cosmopoliteness, self-confidence, risk-orientation and information-seeking behavior. The results revealed that majority of the respondents possessed medium level (65.83%) followed by low (25%) and high level (9.17%) of entrepreneurial behaviour.
Dairy farmers, entrepreneurial behavior, entrepreneurship
