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Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour

Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour established on 5th August, 2010 is a basic and strategic institution supporting more than 500 researchers and educationist towards imparting education at graduate and post graduate level, conducting basic, strategic, applied and adaptive research activities, ensuring effective transfer of technologies and capacity building of farmers and extension personnel. The university has 6 colleges (5 Agriculture and 1 Horticulture) and 12 research stations spread in 3 agro-ecological zones of Bihar. The University also has 21 KVKS established in 20 of the 25 districts falling under the jurisdiction of the University. The degree programmes of the university and its colleges have been accredited by ICAR in 2015-16. The university is also an ISO 9000:2008 certified organisation with International standard operating protocols for maintaining highest standards in teaching, research, extension and training.VisionThe Bihar Agricultural University was established with the objective of improving quality of life of people of state especially famers constituting more than two third of the population. Having set ultimate goal of benefitting society at large, the university intends to achieve it by imparting word-class need based agricultural education, research, extension and public service.

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    Factors Promoting Agripreneurship: An In-Depth Study
    (Department of Extension Education, BAU, Sabour, 2022) Biswas, Nupur; Panda, Chandan Kumar
    Ph.D. research work on “Factors Promoting Agripreneurship: An In-Depth Study” is based on the perception of agripreneurs of Bihar. Total eighty respondents were surveyed for this research work, which includes 20 respondents those were taken from each four districts namely, Patna, Purnea, Nalanda and Bhagalpur. There are three agro-climatic zones in Bihar comprising North-West (Zone-I), North-East (Zone-II) and South-Bihar (Zone-III). The lists of respondents was collected from KVKs and BAMETI (Bihar Agriculture Management and Extension Training Institute) and agripreneurs of concerned field under the jurisdiction of Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour was taken for study. Objectives of the study are 1) to document the entrepreneurial journey of selected respondents, 2) to identify the motivational factors associated with agripreneurship, 3) to study the determinants of success in agripreneurship and 4) to find out the enabling factors for developing an effective entrepreneurial eco-systems perceived by the respondents. The data was collected by survey method and then recorded and compiled. The findings showed that majority of agripreneurs were male (77.50 %) since in business male is dominating and having age less than 45 years that means most of them belongs to younger stage. They were only passed intermediate as in the rural areas as lesser number of people are educated, most of the agripreneurs were from backward class. They are from joint family whose family income is more than Rs. 80 lakhs. So, their houses are pacca. Majority of the agripreneurs are in progressive stage (67.50 %),majority of the agripreneurs are borrowing money from friends and relatives (37.39 %) due to high interest rate or do not get loans easily. Mentoring support is negatively correlated with the annual income from the enterprise. Legal and administrative factors are negatively correlated with the annual income from the enterprise. Legal and administrative support, mentor support and family type are the most important factors that helped in the growth of the enterprise among all independent variable