International Journal of Farm Sciences
Open Access
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 4

Rural youth's attitude towards agri-entrepreneurship and relationship of their profile characteristics to attitude

  • Author:
  • G Shivacharan, V Sudha Rani, M Sampath Kumar
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 73 to 76

Department of Agricultural Extension, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, College of Agriculture, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, 500030, Telangana, India

*Email for correspondence: shiv4one@gmail.com

Online published on 25 July, 2018.

Abstract

The present study was conducted in Nizamabad and Karimnagar districts of Telangana to investigate the profile and attitude of rural young agri-entrepreneurs. Total 120 respondents were randomly selected for the study and interviewed. Most (30.00%) of the respondents had neutral attitude towards agri-entrepreneurship followed by favourable (24.17%), most unfavourable (18.33%), unfavourable (15.00%) and most favourable (12.50%) attitude. There was a positive correlation between attitude and age, education, trainings undergone, entrepreneurial experience and economic motivation.

Keywords

Attitude, rural agri-entrepreneurs, relationship, characteristics