Authors : Sanyukta Ambadkar
Page Nos : 154-156
Description :
India is an agricultural country and one third population depends on the agricultural sectors directly or indirectly. Agricultural plays a vital role in India’s economy. Entrepreneurship is a vast therapy that contain activity of setting up a business or businesses which setup by taking an financial risk in the hope of profit. Most agricultural outliers are forced to migrate to nearby towns and cities in search of work, often in the unorganized unskilled sector. That’s why the need for developing more innovative mechanisms in the rural economy that boost employment opportunities in the agriculture sector. Not only in developing alternative sources of employment, entrepreneurship can also help radicalize farming techniques and bring innovation to improve yields per hectare. Agripreneurship has potential to generate growth, diversifying income, providing widespread employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in rural areas. This paper mainly focused on basic concepts of agripreneurship, entrepreneurship skills, and needs of agripreneurship development in India along with major reason for promoting agripreneurship development in country.
