Lahariya, Dr. K. T.YEWATKAR, HARSHAL DNYANESHWAR.2018-11-142018-11-142018-07-26YEWATKAR, HARSHAL DNYANESHWAR. (2018). Entrepreneurial behaviour of Garlic growers. Department of Extension Education, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola. M. Sc. 2018. Print. xiv, 110p. (Unpublished).http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810083428The present study was conducted in Akola district keeping in view the large area under garlic. The study would also be useful to know the constraint faced by the garlic growers in adoption of improved cultivation practices of garlic. The findings of the study may help the administrators and policy makers to know the entrepreneurial behaviour of farmers, the relationship between socio-economic characteristic with entrepreneurial behaviour and reasons for practicing garlic production, which will help them to come out with the suitable policies and programmes for Garlic grown. The study helps in further investigations on entrepreneurial behaviour of Garlic growers.The present study entitled "Entrepreneurial Behaviour of Garlic Growers” was conducted in Akola district of Maharashtra State. The respondents were selected by using random sampling method for present study. The main objectives of the study were the entrepreneurial behaviour of the respondents, the constraints encountered and suggestions given by the respondents in garlic cultivation by using exploratory design of social research with data were collected by personally interviewing with help of pretested and well structure interview schedule. The collected data were applied to appropriate statistical methods and analysis. The score was assigned to measure independent and dependent variables and percentage was worked out to describe the characteristics of garlic growers. Coefficient of correlation was worked out to find the relationship between the variables. The silent findings of the study revealed that more than half of the respondents belongs to middle age group (52.50%) and educated up to college level (55.00%). Majority of garlic growers were having agriculture as their main occupation (83.30%). Half of the garlic growers had Rs. up to 4 lakh their annual income (50.00%). Most of the garlic growers possessed semi-medium land holdings 2.01 to 4 ha (41.67%). More than half of garlic growers had 0.1 to 0.4 ha area under garlic (60.00%). Majority of respondents (88.33%) had well / tube well as their irrigation source. More than half of the respondents belongs to medium extension contact (56.67%). Nearly half of the respondents belongs to medium level of social participation (40.84%). Nearly majority of the respondents belongs to medium scientific orientation (72.50%). Further, it was observed that, 76.70 per cent of the garlic growers possessed medium overall entrepreneurial behaviour. Whereas, in case of entrepreneurial behaviour components, most of the respondents had medium level of innovativeness (71.00 per cent), achievement motivation (63.30 per cent), economic motivation (60.00 per cent), risk preference (66.70 per cent), decision making ability (59.00 per cent) and leadership ability (88.34 per cent). The relational analysis revealed that, the socio-economic characteristics like education, occupation, annual income, land holdings, area under garlic, social participation extension contact and scientific orientation had positive and significant relationship with entrepreneurial behaviour. while the variable age had found to be negative and significantly correlated with entrepreneurial attributes. Further, remaining characteristics of garlic growers such as sources of irrigation did not establish any significant relationship with entrepreneurial behaviour of the respondents. The findings of the constraints faced by the garlic growers as perceived that, It can be observed from Table 29 that, fluctuation of rates in garlic (89.16%), lack of information about garlic cultivation (87.50%) and power cut off (80.00%) is the majority of the respondent’s problem. Scarcity of water (58.33%) is the nearly half of the respondents problem. potential market away from garlic cultivation area (31.16%) is the some of the respondent’s problem. The suggestion to overcome the constraints as suggested by the garlic growers are need of scientific information about garlic cultivation (98.33%), stability in rates for garlic (91.66%), availability of continuous power supply (87.50%), availability of local market facility (80.33%).enCrops, Vegetable crops, Allium sativum, Garlic, Agricultural development, Extension activities, Economic motivation, Rural areas, Rural development, Technology transfer, Social participation, Extension programmes, Group communications, Farmers education, Innovation adoption. Farmers entrepreneurial behaviour, Garlic growers, Farmers innovativeness, Farmers risk preference, Farmers economic motivation, Farmers social participation,Thesis