Socio Economic Status of the People Adopting Bee Keeping as an Entrepreneurship
Journal Title: International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences (IJCMAS) - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 7
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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