Attitude of agri and non agri professionals towards agripreneurship: A comparative study

Abstract

The present study was conducted in Hyderabad, Karimnagar and Warangal districts of Telangana state to study the Attitude of Agripreneurs towards Agripreneurship: Profile Characteristics of Agri and non agri professionals. A total of 120 respondents (60 agri professionals and 60 non agri professionals) were randomly selected for the study. Ex-post-facto research design was used for the present study. It was found that among agri professionals majority of the agri professionals fell under middle age category (56.67%), male (73.33%), with nuclear family type (85.00%) had undergraduation education (68.34%), with medium annual income (58.33%), financial support from banks and self-investment (85.00%), received technical support from government institutions (71.66%), moderately favourable entrepreneurial motivation (63.33%), medium innovativeness (68.34%), medium risk taking ability (73.33%), medium mass media contact (61.66%), medium achievement motivation (65.00%), medium decision making ability (55.00%), medium self-confidence (51.67%), undergone 1-2 trainings (48.33%). Majority of the non agri professionals fell under middle age category (75.00%), male (78.33%), with nuclear family type (81.33%), with under graduation (80.00%), medium annual income (48.33%), invested their own funds/self- investment (90.00%), received technical support from private institutions(43.33%), with moderately favourable entrepreneurial motivation (50.00%), medium innovativeness (51.67%), medium risk taking ability (58.33%), medium mass media contact (45.00%), medium level achievement motivation (48.33%), medium decision making ability (46.67%), medium self-confidence (53.33%), and undergone 1-2 trainings (56.67%).