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ENTREPRENEURIAL BEHAVIOUR OF POMEGRANATE GROWERS IN KOPPAL DISTRICT OF KARNATAKA

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Title ENTREPRENEURIAL BEHAVIOUR OF POMEGRANATE GROWERS IN KOPPAL DISTRICT OF KARNATAKA
 
Creator PRABHUGOUDA, KAMARADDI
 
Contributor RAM NAIDU, GBM
 
Subject planting, developmental stages, yields, heterosis, groundnuts, diseases, area, leaf area, harvesting, harvest index
POMEGRANATE
 
Description A study on entrepreneurial behaviour of Pomegranate growers in Koppal
district of Karnataka was carried out during 2011. Respondents from each
village in the district had been randomly selected by using proportionate
sampling procedure, thus making a total of 120 respondents and data was
collected by personal interview method.
The detailed analysis of profile of Pomegranate growers indicated that
majority of the respondents were middle aged, having Primary school education,
medium land holding, medium in social participation, mass media exposure,
training exposure, scientific orientation, credit orientation, and market
orientation.
The study revealed that majority of the Pomegranate growers had medium
entrepreneurial behaviour.
Among Sub-components of the Entrepreneurial behaviour, it was found
that majority of the respondents had medium self confidence, decision making
ability, information seeking behaviour, risk taking ability, innovativeness,
achievement motivation, ability to coordinate farm activities, management
orientation, cosmopoliteness and economic motivation.
The correlation analysis revealed that education, land holding, social
participation, mass media exposure, experience in Pomegranate cultivation;
training exposure, scientific orientation, credit orientation and market orientation
were positively and significantly correlated with entrepreneurial behaviour of
Pomegranate growers and age was negatively significant with entrepreneurial
behaviour of Pomegranate growers. All the independent variables taken together
explained to the extent of 83.40 per cent to the total variance in the
entrepreneurial behaviour.
The Multiple Linear Regression analysis indicated that all the ten sub-
components of entrepreneurial behaviour put together explained 99.80 per cent
variance of the entrepreneurial behaviour. The most important sub-components
in order of their importance were, innovativeness, management orientation,
information seeking behaviour, economic motivation, risk taking ability,
cosmopoliteness, achievement motivation, decision making ability, self
confidence and ability to coordinate farm activities.
The average annual family income of respondents after Pomegranate
cultivation was raised around fourteen times as compared to before its
cultivation. Majority of farmers created the farm assets, house hold assets and
purchased the land out of their earnings from Pomegranate cultivation. Majority
had responded that their social recognition, social interaction, contact with
AHO/ADH, social participation, increased remarkably and few responded that
their political participation also increased. Nearly half of the Pomegranate
growers were giving better education for their children with the benefits earned.
Main constraints faced by the Pomegranate growers include, bacterial
blight, difficult to identify disease free planting material, non-availability of
labour for harvesting, high cost of plant protection chemicals and fertilizers, lack
of knowledge about value added products of Pomegranate, requirement of more
investment, low rate of subsidy, lack of horticultural training programmes,
inadequate transport facilities and inadequate marketing facilities.
Important suggestions were, disease free planting material should be
supplied by the Horticulture department or by Horticultural University, the costs
of the fertilizers and plant protection chemicals should be reduced by more
subsidizing them. Trainings should be given by State Department of Horticulture
and Horticulture University regarding all aspects of Package of Practices and
post-harvest handling of the produce, processing unit (plant) should be started in
the area, marketing and transport facilities should be improved, and under
MGNREGA, employment should be provided to MGNREGA beneficiaries, only
during off-season.
 
Date 2016-06-03T10:23:57Z
2016-06-03T10:23:57Z
2011
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/66688
 
Language en
 
Relation D9023;
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher ACHARYA N. G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY