2012, Issue-2, Volume 4

A STUDY ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP OF VEGETABLE GROWERS IN INDORE DISTRICT IN MADHYA PRADESH

Rakesh Jain*, M.M. Patel** and Aparna Jaiswal***

*Department of Extension Education,College of Agriculture,Indore, RVSKVV(M.P)

 Senior Research Fellow, I.A.R.I. , Regional Station Indore (M.P.)

** Head, Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology, (R.V.S. K.V.V.), College of Agriculture, Gwalior (M.P.)

*** Assistant Professor (Adhoc),Department of Rural Technology and Social Development,Guru Ghasidas University, Bilaspur (C.G)

Abstract : A study was conducted Indore district, as farmers cultivating vegetable crops the research study was conducted in Indore district of Madhya Pradesh. A representative sample of 90 vegetable growers was drawn from the 10 randomly selected villages of two blocks viz., Indore and Depalpur and data were collected with the help of an interview schedule (pre-tested) The mean entrepreneur success  of vegetable growers was 27.93, indicating that the most of them had medium level of entrepreneur success. The study also revealed that the entrepreneur success of large farmers was higher than the medium and small farmers. It was further observed  that  family type, material possession, economic status, risk taking willingness and were positively correlated at 0.05 level of probability and economic motivation at 0.01 level of probability with entrepreneurial success.

Keywords : Growers, Production, Vegetable

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