ENTREPRENEURIAL BEHAVIOR OF POTATO GROWERS IN CHHINDWARA DISTRICT OF MADHYA PRADESH
Journal Title: International Journal of Agriculture Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 8, Issue 54
Abstract
Potato is one of most important food crop of the world and ranks 4th in major food of the world after rice, wheat and maize. Entrepreneurial behavior is the functions of an individual’s personality characteristics i.e. risk taking ability, hope of success, persistence, feed-back uses, self-confidence, knowledge ability etc. The present study was carried out on the entrepreneurial behavior of potato growers in Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh, which covers 7004 ha area under potato cultivation and ranks first in Madhya Pradesh. This study revealed that majority of the potato cultivators had medium level of education, material possession, annual income, economic motivation, scientific orientation and contacts with extension agents
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LALITA DEVI PAWAR
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