tailieunhanh - Entrepreneurial behavior of rural dairy farmers

The present study was conducted in Kashi Vidyapeeth block of Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh during 2017-18. From the three villages chosen from Kashi Vidyapeeth block, total 120 respondents practicing dairy and possessing at least one milch animal such as cow/buffalo were selected purposively to find the entrepreneurial behaviour of dairy farmers. The data was collected by personal interview with the help of structured interview schedule. The study revealed that majority of the dairy farmers found to have medium level of entrepreneurial behaviour followed by high and low level of entrepreneurial behaviour. | 2019 8 2 608-611 EXCELLENT PUBLISHERS International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN 2319-7706 Volume 8 Number 02 2019 Journal homepage http Original Research Article https Entrepreneurial Behavior of Rural Dairy Farmers Chaitra L. Patil and . Singh Department of Extension Education Institute of Agricultural Sciences Banaras Hindu University Varanasi India Corresponding author ABSTRACT Keywords Entrepreneurship Dairy farmer Entrepreneurial behaviour Milch animal Article Info Accepted 07 January 2019 Available Online 10 February 2019 The present study was conducted in Kashi Vidyapeeth block of Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh during 2017-18. From the three villages chosen from Kashi Vidyapeeth block total 120 respondents practicing dairy and possessing at least one milch animal such as cow buffalo were selected purposively to find the entrepreneurial behaviour of dairy farmers. The data was collected by personal interview with the help of structured interview schedule. The study revealed that majority of the dairy farmers found to have medium level of entrepreneurial behaviour followed by high and low level of entrepreneurial behaviour. Introduction The importance of dairying in our country hardly needs emphasizing. The vast resources more than 50 per cent of the world s buffalos and 20 per cent of its cattle of livestock in the country play an important role in the national economy as well as in the socioeconomic development of millions of rural households. Dairy enterprise could play a more constructive role in promoting rural welfare and reducing poverty by generating employment at farm level is increasingly being recognized. A sustainable and financially viable dairy farming which will generate income and self-employment through entrepreneurship is the need of the day Shah et al. 2003 . In the present era it is being realized that entrepreneurship .