A STUDY ON STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OF WOMEN OWNED AGRI MICRO AND SMALL ENTERPRISES IN TELANGANA
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2023-01-19
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PROFFESSOR JAYASHANKAR TELANGANA STATE AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY
Abstract
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) play a dominant role in the economic
development of a country. MSMEs are considered as the second largest source of employment
after agriculture in India (RBI, 2019). This sector produces a mixture of agro-based industrial
products such as food products, beverages, tobacco and goods produced from it, cotton textiles
and wool, silk, synthetic products, jute and jute products, wood and wood products, furniture
and fixtures, paper and goods produced from it. It also includes other services such as
machinery, apparatus, appliances and electrical machinery. This sector also has a large number
of growing service industries. Thus, it can be said that MSMEs are the engines for driving the
vehicle of economic growth of a country.
The study is taken up with the following objectives:
Objectives:
1. To study the status of agri related micro and small enterprises in general and women operated
enterprises in particular.
2. To assess the performance and business viability of selected agri related women micro and
small enterprises.
3. To find out the major challenges faced by micro and small women agripreneurs.
To develop a deep understanding on the above, Hyderabad city was preferred as the
study area and five women owned enterprises were taken for study. To perform the analysis,
data was collected through personal interviews from the selected MSMEs, with the help of
structured questionnaire/schedule. Various data was collected from the women entrepreneurs.
Financial ratios like Current ratio, Gross profit margin, Net working capital ratio, Debt-equity
ratio are used to assess the performance of selected agri related women micro and small
enterprises. Garett’s ranking technique was used to indicate the constraints faced by women
entrepreneurs in agri micro and small enterprises.
The status of agripreneurs was studied under the variables like age, educational status,
marital status and enterprise details. The number of women agripreneurs registered under
Udyam in 2017 was 1,21,667 in Hyderabad, while in 2021 it was 4,50,865 members. It reveals
that developing and increasing position of agri-related women owned enterprises. Similarly, it
depicts four-fold increase of women agripreneurs in the last four years and depicts the favorable
environment for the growth of women agripreneurs. Along with secondary data, the primary
data obtained from the women agripreneurs, helps to interpret the status of agri-related micro
and small enterprise owned by women agripreneurs. Among the five firms taken to study the
financial performance of the enterprise, it can be seen that firm A has good and sound financial
infrastructure, followed by Firm B, Firm C, Firm D and Firm E respectively. The performance
and business viability of Firm E was very poor and had less stable financial structure when
compared with other four firms.