Entrepreneurial Behavioural Characteristics of Tribal Livestock Farmers in Kolhan Region of Jharkhand

The entrepreneurship is a critical input of socio-economic development of society. The entrepreneurs not only bring economic change in financial system but also socially and culturally. In present study, an attempt was made to understand entrepreneurial behavioral characteristics of tribal livestock farmers. For this purpose two districts were purposively selected viz; East Singhbhum and Saraikela-Kharsawan in Kolhan region of Jharkhand state (India). From these two district further four blocks viz; Potka and Patamda of East Singhbhum, Gamharia and Kharsawan of Saraikela-Kharsawan were also randomly selected. The data were collected using structured interview schedule from 120 randomly selected farmers. The results of the study revealed that respondents were found to possess medium level of decision making ability (57.50%), risk taking ability (52.50%), achievement motivation (44.33%), level of knowledge (51.66%), leadership ability (44.16%) and cosmopoliteness (49.16%) innovativeness (64.16%), planning ability (48.33%). However, it was observed that majority of the farmers had low level of self confidence (41.66%). Majority of farmers had high information sources utilization (44.17%) and medium level of aspiration (60.83%) which was found to influence entrepreneurial behavior of the farmers. Entrepreneurship development programme based on the attributes identified in the study would further boost entrepreneurial interest of the state in future.