Entrepreneurial Characteristics of the Agripreneurs under the Scheme of Agriclinics & Agri-buisness Centres

ABSTRACT Agripreneurship is an employment strategy that can lead to economic self-sufficiency of rural people. Training is a key elements for the promotion of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) for agripreneurship development, particularly for the first generation agripreneurs. These can result in improved performance of an individual which can contribute to employment generation, poverty reduction and Human Resource Development. This study was conducted in two states of India i.e. Uttarakhand and Punjab state to assess the entrepreneurial characterstics of the agripreneurs. One training center from each state was randomly selected for the present study i.e. College of Agribusiness Management (CABM), Pantnagar and Indian Society of Agribusiness Professional (ISAP), Amritsar (Punjab). The data were collected with the help of semi structured interview schedule from 60 respondent each from selected states totalling 120 agripreneurs. The results of the study depicted that majority of the respondents (70.00%) had medium level of achievement motivation; nearly sixty percent had medium level of risk taking and leadership ability and medium level of decision making ability with percentage representation of 71.67