Developing agripreneurship for sustainable farm income: action research study on women farmers of Hapur district, Uttar Pradesh

R Singh, MS Nain, JP Sharma, JR Mishra - 2016 - indianjournals.com
R Singh, MS Nain, JP Sharma, JR Mishra
2016indianjournals.com
Considering shrinking land base and rampant unemployment, there is need to
commercialize and diversify Indian Agriculture in such a way that one can generate more
income per unit of area and time and create agro-based employment opportunities (Sharma
and Singh, 2006). For this to happen we need to convert agriculture into agribusiness.
Agriculture has to move from subsistence culture to Agripreneurship for higher profits. With
this background, an action research project was taken up during 2009–14 in Hapur district of …
Considering shrinking land base and rampant unemployment, there is need to commercialize and diversify Indian Agriculture in such a way that one can generate more income per unit of area and time and create agro-based employment opportunities (Sharma and Singh, 2006). For this to happen we need to convert agriculture into agribusiness. Agriculture has to move from subsistence culture to Agripreneurship for higher profits. With this background, an action research project was taken up during 2009–14 in Hapur district of Uttar Pradesh state to develop a trained cadre of farm women having the capabilities for agri-entrepreneurial endeavours of value added and processed food products so that the incomes at household level could be enhanced and post harvest losses of farm produce could be minimized. It was revealed that building entrepreneurial competencies of farm women and mobilizing women for group action to take up food processing and value addition agri-ventures for maximising farm profits is possible with the concerted efforts of appropriate training of not only technical skills but also behavioral attributes. A perceptible increase in achievement motivation levels and inculcation of entrepreneurial risk taking behaviour was observed. Women also perceived that they had accrued advantages after taking up agripreneurship ventures. Experiences of institutional convergence of synergistic strengths in Hapur has illustrated that there is need for all working together in spirit and action for translating maximum benefits and sustainable growth. Agripreneurship development may be visualized as a process whereby individual's motivations and aspirations trigger it and their entrepreneurial competencies, adoption of best practices and facilitative socio-economic factors play sequential role in reaching agripreneurial success.
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