Vol. 7, Issue 5 (2019)
Study of agricultural graduates converted into successful agripreneurs in Chhattisgarh state
Author(s): OP Parganiha, VK Soni, CR Netam and NK Toorray
Abstract: Agriculture has been one of the leading economic sectors where there is a wide range of business or enterprise opportunities. The transformation of these opportunities to economic development, however, depends on agricultural talents producing from agricultural universities. This study was conducted among 60 agricultural graduates of Chhattisgarh those converted themselves as an agripreneurs during the year 2018-19. Majority of the agriculture graduates (51.28 %) belonged to age group of above 35 years with 56.41 per cent of them were having education up to graduation level and belonged to nuclear family (69.23%). About 69 per cent of agriculture graduates were newly started their business as sole enterprise (89.74%). Out of them, 38.46 per cent were indulge in business of commodity/input selling followed by 35.90 per cent of the graduates were doing commodity production. Almost two third of the graduates in each case had taken self decision for selection of enterprise, selection of product to produce/sell, size of business, acquisition of credit, selection of credit institution and marketing venue of product. As for income of the agripreneurs is concerned, almost 44 per cent of the agripreneurs were earning income up to 5 to 10 lakh per year. They said that need to high achievement (89.74%) and skillfulness to start particular business (82.05%) were major motivational factor to become an agripreneurs, whereas, most of the agriculture graduate (71.79%) were facing major constraint as competition with established business. Further, the information generated by this research has been documented in the form of success stories, which will also serve as basis in providing advice and career guidance to students in agriculture. In effect, this will broaden the employment and economic opportunities of agriculture graduates.
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OP Parganiha, VK Soni, CR Netam, NK Toorray. Study of agricultural graduates converted into successful agripreneurs in Chhattisgarh state. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(5):1686-1689.
