Author(s):

Dilip Kumar, RS Sengar, P Shrivastava and PR Singh

Abstract: Entrepreneurship is the recognition of an opportunity to create value, and the process of acting on this opportunity, whether or not it involves the formation of a new entity. Under the jurisdiction of Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur (C.G.), 15 colleges (from faculty agriculture, horticulture and agriculture engineering) were selected randomly for the present study. Out of 717, the total 362 Final year (4th year) Under Graduate students were selected randomly as respondents. The primary data were collected through pre tested semi-structured interview scheduled and collected data were analyzed by using SPSS 16.0 version software. In case of respondents from constituent colleges, majority of them (69.23%) were male, 39.42 per cent of the respondents were from OBC category, majority of the respondent’s parents (34.13%) had small size of land holding, majority (53.85%) of the respondent’s relatives had owned business, 48.56 per cent had annual family income upto₹ 1,00,000/-, 53.85 per cent had medium level of leadership ability and majority of the respondents (58.17%) had moderately favorable attitude towards agricultural entrepreneurship. While in case of affiliated private colleges, majority of them (58.44%) were male, majority (48.05%) of the respondents were from OBC category, 27.27 per cent of the respondent’s parents from affiliated private colleges had medium size of land holding, majority (56.49%) of the respondents informed that their relatives had owned business, majority of the respondent’s family annual income (51.30%) had upto₹ 1,00,000/-, majority (55.84%) had medium level of leadership ability and majority of the respondents (57.14%) had moderately favorable attitude towards agricultural entrepreneurship

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