Title: Entrepreneurial behavior of rural youth involved in dairy enterprise
Authors: Sandeep Sharma, Sanjeev Kumar Singh, Amit Singh, Shalini Vaswani and Vijay Kumar
Source: Ruminant Science (2019)-8(1):73-76
Cite this reference as: Sharma Sandeep, Singh Sanjeev Kumar, Singh Amit, Vaswani Shalini and Kumar Vijay (2019). Entrepreneurial behavior of rural youth involved in dairy enterprise. Ruminant Science 8(1):73-76.
Abstract
Present study was conducted in Dholpur district of Rajasthan to know the level of entrepreneurial behaviour of rural youth in dairying. A sample of 120 rural youth was selected for the study. Majority of the respondents had a medium level of innovativeness, achievement motivation and decision-making ability. About 60 per cent of dairy farmers had medium risk orientation, with moderate coordinating and planning ability. While 50.00 per cent of the respondents had medium information-seeking behaviour, 64.17 per cent had a medium level of cosmopoliteness and 60 per cent possessed a high level of self-confidence followed by 32.50 per cent medium, 07.50 per cent low-level self-confidence. This study revealed that dairy farmers had a medium level of entrepreneurial behaviour.
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