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Vol. 7, Issue 5 (2019)

Factors inhibit farm women to become entrepreneurs


Author(s): SM Gholape, VG Patil, KS Dangade and Neha Kale

Abstract: The present study was conducted in all the five districts of Konkan region of Maharashtra namely Sindhudurg, Ratnagiri, Raigad, Thane and Palghar. The lists with addresses of trained and practicing farm women engaged in value addition of fruits, vegetables production and back yard poultry enterprises were obtained from Regional Agricultural Research Stations and Krishi Vigyan Kendra from all five district. The sample constituted 50 trained farm women from each district However, at the time of data collection, the researcher was able to interview only 221 practicing trained farm women. Hence, for the present study sample size was 221 trained farm women. The respondents were personally interviewed with the help of specially designed interview schedule. An ex-post-facto research design was used for the present study. The data were collected by personal interview of trained farm women. The factors inhibit women to become entrepreneurs revealed that, in case of value addition of fruits ‘limitations in marketing’ was the major inhibiting factor expressed by majority of the farm women. Regarding vegetables production ‘high cost of inputs’ was the major inhibiting factor expressed by farm women followed by ‘dependency on middleman’ While ‘High cost of poultry feed’ was the most severe inhibiting factor faced by majority of the farm women in rearing back yard poultry.

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How to cite this article:
SM Gholape, VG Patil, KS Dangade, Neha Kale. Factors inhibit farm women to become entrepreneurs. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(5):10-12.
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