Risk Perception and Capacity Building of Women in Diversified Agriculture for Entrepreneurship
Loading...
Date
2014
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
CCSHAU
Abstract
The study on, “Risk perception and capacity building of women in diversified agriculture for
entrepreneurship” was conducted covering 200 randomly drawn respondents from four villages of
purposively selected Hisar district of Haryana. Most respondents played active participation, showed
information seeking behavior and consulting role in decision making for diversified agricultural
activities. Most respondents perceived training needs for dairy at commercial level, taking measures for
clean milk production, vermicomposting, food processing and purchase and sale of milch animals.
Majority respondents perceived risk in terms of uncertain whether condition, inadequate knowledge
and skill of innovative appropriate irrigation technology, rising price of agricultural inputs, problem of
middleman and high and varying interest rate. Most respondents were willingly to undertake diversified
entrepreneurial agricultural activities, were highly willing to change the existing pattern of farming
diversification. Huge majority respondents were willing to pay to undertake specified training with
rider to undertake diversified agricultural activities as an entrepreneurial. The perceived entrepreneurial
attributes to undertake diversified agricultural activities were creativity, innovativeness, achievement
motivation and rationality for dairy, ability to motivate others, self-confidence, skill competence and
foresightedness for floriculture, creativity, environmental scanning, change proneness and goal setting
skills for vermicomposting, communicability, environmental scanning, skill competence and goal
setting skill for food processing, creativity, self-confidence, change proneness and rationality in
thinking for medicinal and aromatic plants. Majority scored high on perceived attributes for all the
technologies (serrated sickle, coat bag and capron) except sag cutter. Significant knowledge gain on all
activities was observed. Significant association was observed for independent and dependent variables.
Description
Keywords
biological phenomena, productivity, markets, participation, planting, crops, economic systems, economics, animal husbandry, vermicomposting