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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The present investigation was done to study the profile characteristics of women agripreneurs in Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh. Ex-post facto research design was followed for the study and a sample of 120 respondents was drawn. The results of the study revealed that most of the respondents were middle aged (62.50%), educated up to high school (34.16%). Majority of the women agripreneurs belonged to medium categories with respect to variables of entrepreneurial experience (72.50%), social participation (55.00%), risk orientation (70.00%), innovativeness (59.17%), management orientation (60.83%), decision making ability (71.67%), medium annual family income (70.00%), economic orientation (71.67%), credit orientation (44.16%), extension contact (59.17%), mass media exposure (57.50%), and training received (65.83%). The enterprises run by majority (26.67%) of the agripreneurs were processed millets and preparation of value added products with millets.