Study on socio-economic status and entrepreneurial behaviour of custard apple SHG members in Kanker district of Chhattisgarh

Abstract

The present study was carried out during 2019-20 in the Kanker district of Chhattisgarh state. The Chhattisgarh state consists of 28 districts, out of which, Kanker district was selected purposively, because one of the leading custard apple producing district in Chhattisgarh. 113 Self-help groups members were considered as respondent for study and to know the impact of study on socio-economic status with reference to entrepreneurial behaviour of custard apple SHG members in Kanker district of Chhattisgarh. The data was collected from 113custard apple self help group members. Regarding to entrepreneurial behaviour observed that majority of the (64.60 %) custard apple SHG members belonged to medium entrepreneurial behaviour category and majority of the group members comes under lower middle class. The result asserted that socio- economic profile are improve with proper guidance and direction can boost the entrepreneurial ability rural self help groups member and entrepreneurship can be promoted.