IMPACT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL BEHAVIOUR ON FARMING PERFORMANCE OF COTTON GROWERS IN KURNOOL DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
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2015
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Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University
Abstract
The present study was conducted with broad objective of studying the
impact of entrepreneurial behaviour on farming performance of cotton
growers in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh and to study the influence of
their personal characteristics on entrepreneurial behaviour and farming
performance. The problems faced by the cotton growers and their
suggestions to overcome the problems for better entrepreneurship and
farming performance were also elicited.
Ex-post- facto research design was followed in the present
investigation.
Adoni, Kosigi, Mantralayam were selected purposively based on the
highest area under cotton crop in Kurnool district. Four villages were selected
from each mandal thus constituting a total of twelve villages. A total of 120
cotton farmers, 10 from each village were selected randomly. Ten
independent variables and the entrepreneurial behaviour, farming
performance as the dependant variable were identified for the study.
Data were collected from the respondents through pre-tested
structured interview schedule individually.
Majority of the Cotton growers belonged to middle aged, educated up
to primary school, having small land holdings and possessed medium level
of farming experience, annual income, social participation, training
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undergone, scientific orientation, marketing facilities and approach banks
for micro finance.
Majority of Cotton growers had medium level of entrepreneurial
behaviour and farming performance. Correlation analysis revealed that there
was positive and significant relationship between entrepreneurial behaviour
and farming performance of cotton growers.
Correlation analysis revealed that age and farming experience had
non-significant relationship whereas education, farm size, annual income,
social participation, training undergone, scientific orientation, sources of
micro finance and marketing facilities had positive and significant
relationship with the entrepreneurial behaviour and farming performance of
Cotton growers.
Regression analysis revealed that out of the 10 selected independent
variables age, education, farm size and market facilities are positively and
significantly contributed to the most of the variation in entrepreneurial
behaviour of Cotton growers.
Regression analysis revealed that out of the 10 selected independent
variables training undergone, sources of microfinance, scientific orientation
and market facilities are positively and significantly contributed to the most
of the variation in farming performance of Cotton growers.
The results of the ANOVA test clearly indicated that the calculated
āPā value was less than the āPā table value among the mean groups of
entrepreneurial behaviour and hence it was inferred that there was a
significant impact of entrepreneurial behaviour on framing behaviour of
cotton growers. Further the results of Duncan Multiple Range test reveals
that the respondents under low, medium and high Entrepreneurial behaviour
category were not overlapping and each category differ significantly.
Non availability of labour, high cost of labour, lack of machinery for
cotton cultivation operations, lack low market price, poor quality seeds, low
yields, lack of adequate trainings on improved cotton practices, more
incidence of pests and diseases, adverse weather conditions, poor extensionfarmer
linkages were the major problems expressed by the cotton growers.
Requirement of machinery for different cotton cultivation operations,
adequate market price, NREGS works should be converged to cotton
operations where labour requirement is more, provision of good quality
seed, strengthening of training, research facilities to update knowledge and
skills, organization of exposure visits to well grown areas to make the
farmers understand and adopt new technologies, more number of visits by
extension personnel to farmers fields, avoid fluctuation of market price,
credit with low interest rate, assured and continued power supply.
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