Vol. 7, Issue 3 (2019)
Entrepreneurial behaviour of garlic growers
Author(s): Harshal Yewatkar, Dr. KT Lahariya, Anuj Raut and Dr. Sanjeevkumar Salame
Abstract: The present study entitled “Entrepreneurial Behaviour of Garlic Growers†was conducted in Akola district of Maharashtra State with the objective to ascertain to study the entrepreneurial behavior of the respondents, to study the relationship between profile of Garlic growers and their entrepreneur behavior by the respondents in garlic cultivation. Exploratory research design of social research was used for this study. For this study respondents were selected by using random sampling method. Irrespective of the tahasils, from the selected area 120 Garlic Growers were selected as respondents for the study and data were collected by personal interview meathod.
The findings of the study revealed that, the majority of the respondents (76.70) of the Garlic growers possessed medium overall entrepreneurial behaviour. Whereas, in case of entrepreneurial behaviour components, majority of respondents had medium level of innovativeness (71.00%), achievement motivation (63.30%), economic motivation (66.00%), risk preference (66.70%), decision making ability (59.00%) and leadership ability (88.34%).
The results revealed that, the socio-economic characteristics like education, occupation, annual income, land holdings, area under garlic, social participation extension contact and scientific orientation had positive and significant relationship with entrepreneurial behaviour. while the variable age had found to be negative and significantly correlated with entrepreneurial Behaviour. Further, remaining characteristics of garlic growers such as sources of irrigation did not establish any significant relationship with entrepreneurial behaviour of the respondents.
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Harshal Yewatkar, Dr. KT Lahariya, Anuj Raut, Dr. Sanjeevkumar Salame. Entrepreneurial behaviour of garlic growers. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(3):2644-2647.
