Journal of Global Communication
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 13
  • Issue: 1

Attitude of post graduate students towards agricultural entrepreneurship

1Ph.D. Scholar, Department of Agricultural Extension and Communication, B.A. Collage of Agriculture, A.A.U., Anand, 388001, Gujarat, India

2Associate Professor, Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Pune, Maharashtra, India

*Corresponding author email id: shafiagri23@gmail.com

Online published on 12 August, 2020.

Abstract

The present study was conducted in the Anand agricultural university especially on post graduate students of BACA College of Anand agricultural university, Anand. This study includes data on 60 students out of 246 total students, enrolled in the B.A. College of Agriculture during the academic year 2018–19 based on random sampling. Majority of the postgraduate students were male and were from the scheduled caste category. Majority P.G. students were the first child in their family with an urban background, possessing first class marks in their academic achievement whose student's father's education was higher secondary school and mother's education was high school level. Majority of the P.G. Student's father's occupation and mother's occupation possessed agriculture as a main occupation and having very low annual income because of marginal farmers with small land holdings. They have no business availability in their homes but have high mass media exposure and most of them choose high career choices in their lives making a very high attitude towards agricultural entrepreneurship. The correlation results of post graduate students’ profile with attitude of agri entrepreneurship also revealed that post graduate students academic achievement, mother's education and mothers occupation had positive and significant relationship with the attitude of agri entrepreneurships.

Keywords

Attitude, Post graduate student, Agricultural entrepreneurship