Socio Economic Status of the People Adopting Bee Keeping as an Entrepreneurship

Abstract

The present study was carried out at SainaNehwal Institute of Agricultural Technology, Training and Education, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar (Haryana) during 2016-17. Response of the trainees was evaluated on the basis of gender, age, educational status, occupation and adoption of bee keeping as an entrepreneurship. Majority of respondents (96%) were male; belonged to young age group (72%), having education level up to matriculation (47%) and farming as an occupation (51%). Majority of respondents (67%) were either landless/tenant or marginal farmers and about 73 per cent were having low level of annual income. More than 3/4th of the respondents (82%) showed the interest in adopting bee keeping as an entrepreneurship. It was concluded that the unemployed youth, landless labors/farmers and marginal farmers belonging to young age group having low level of annual income are more interested in adopting bee keeping as an entrepreneurship.

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Bhupender Singh, Surender Singh, Asha Batra

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  • EP ID EP581051
  • DOI 10.20546/ijcmas.2018.707.018
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Bhupender Singh, Surender Singh, Asha Batra (2018). Socio Economic Status of the People Adopting Bee Keeping as an Entrepreneurship. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences (IJCMAS), 7(7), 143-149. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-581051