Vol. 11, Special Issue 5 (2022)

Author(s):
Sanketh CV, KP Raghuprasad, Prem Kishor SN and S Ganesamoorthi

Abstract:
In the verge of privatization, globalization and liberalization, entrepreneurship development is one of the ways for overcoming unemployment among graduates. By taking above sentence as a base the present study has been undertaken during the year 2019-20 in four agriculture colleges of Karnataka state which are coming under four farm universities viz., university of agricultural sciences Bangalore, Dharwad, Raichur and one more university of agricultural and horticultural sciences Shimoga by taking 50 as respondents size form each college. The study revealed that initial financial hurdles to start an enterprise was experienced by majority (94.50%) of the students as the major constraint to accept entrepreneurship as carrier options and majority (94.00%) of the students said that, the students should be encouraged by the parents, relatives, teachers and friends towards entrepreneurship, followed by 92.00 per cent of the students expected that, practical knowledge must be given to students rather than theoretical knowledge and 86.50 per cent of the students said financial support should be provided to the interested students by various financial agencies were the major expectations of the students to accept entrepreneurship as carrier options.