International Journal of Farm Sciences
Open Access
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 1

A scale to measure entrepreneurial potential of beekeepers

  • Author:
  • M Esakkimuthu, VLV Kameswari
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 188 to 193

Department of Agricultural Communication, GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar-263145, Uttara Khand, India

*Email for correspondence: esakkimuthu418@yahoo.com

Online published on 25 July, 2018.

Abstract

Beekeeping is an important agro-based enterprise. But India's contribution to the global production is very meagre. Among Indian states Tamil Nadu is the second largest producer of honey. Several NGOs, cooperative societies, state agricultural universities etc are promoting beekeeping as an agrobased enterprise in the state. The study was conducted to know the entrepreneurial potential of beekeepers. This article describes the scale that was developed to measure the entrepreneurial potential of beekeepers. The scale consisted of 30 statements and pilot study indicates that it is reliable, consistent and can be adopted in other Indian states also.

Keywords

Entrepreneurial potential, beekeepers, validity, reliability