A study of socio – economic profile of seed growers in raichur district of Karnataka
International Journal of Development Research
A study of socio – economic profile of seed growers in raichur district of Karnataka
Received 06th June, 2018; Received in revised form 04th July, 2018; Accepted 07th August, 2018; Published online 30th September, 2018
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A study on entrepreneurial behaviour of seed production farmers in Raichur district of Karnataka was carried out during 2015-16. By following appropriate purposive sampling procedure 120 farmers were selected and the data was collected by personal interview method. Ex- post facto research design was followed for carrying out the study. The majority of the respondents belonged to middle age (65.00%), High School (49.16%), medium farmers (49.16%), had medium farming experience (67.50%), medium annual income (50.83%), high risk orientation (68.33%), high achievement motivation (63.33%), high management orientation (61.66%), medium cropping intensity (53.33%), medium mass media participation (42.50%), medium extension participation (40.84%) medium information seeking behaviour (41.66%).The data was analysed by using a appropriate statistical tools like mean, frequency and percentage.