A STUDY ON ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION AMONG THE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF TANUVAS

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2018
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The present study was undertaken to determine the entrepreneurial attitude, entrepreneurial intention and willingness to start enterprise among the undergraduate students of TANUVAS. It also aims to determine the factors influencing the entrepreneurial intention among the undergraduate students of TANUVAS. The present research work was carried out in all the six constituent colleges of TANUVAS with the sample size of 300 final year students. The data were collected from the students personally by the researcher by constructing a well-structured and pre-tested questionnaire. The results revealed that majority of both B.V.Sc & A.H and B. Tech. (Food/Dairy and Poultry Technology) students belonged to the age group of 21-22 years and majority of them were male among B.V.Sc & A.H. students. Majority of both B.V.Sc & A.H and B. Tech. (Food/Dairy and Poultry Technology) students hailed from rural back ground with family size up to five members and belonged to BC community. Two-fifths of B.V.Sc & A.H students’ fathers were engaged in agriculture/A.H related activities and B. Tech. (Food/Dairy/Poultry Technology) students’ fathers were employed in government jobs. Majority of B.V.Sc & A.H students had an annual family income of less than Rs. 1 lakh and in contrast one-third of B. Tech. (Food/Dairy/Poultry Technology) students had an annual family income of more than four lakhs. Majority of both B.V.Sc & A.H and B. Tech. (Food/Dairy/Poultry Technology) did not have any family entrepreneurial background. Both B.V.Sc & A.H and B. Tech. (Food/Dairy/Poultry Technology) students had similar levels of information seeking behaviour, achievement motivation, economic motivation, risk orientation and self-confidence with majority in medium level category. Becoming a poultry/dairy/food industry based entrepreneur was ranked fourth and fifth by B.V.Sc & A.H and B. Tech. (Food/Dairy/Poultry Technology) students, respectively. B.V.Sc & A.H students had low to medium level of knowledge on entrepreneurship whereas B. Tech. (Food/Dairy/Poultry Technology) students had medium to high level of knowledge on entrepreneurship.
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TNV_TH_MVM 16032_2018
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Veterinary Science
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