Vol. 11, Special Issue 10 (2022)

Author(s):
Veena Bushetti and B Krishnamurthy

Abstract:
The study was conducted to analyses the entrepreneurial behavior of Byadagi chilli growers in Haveri district during the year 2021-22. The Ex-post-facto research design has been adopted in the present study. Total sample size encompassed to 180 farmers. It can be noticed that, among the dimensions of entrepreneurial behavior, more than one third (36.67%) of the farmers belonged to medium behavioral aspects category, 41.67 percent of the growers belongs to medium production aspects category, 41.67 percent of the growers belongs to medium climate resilient practices/adaptations aspects category, 42.22 67 percent of the growers belongs to medium processing/value addition aspects, 38.33 percent of the growers belongs to medium category of marketing aspects whereas in the export aspects less than two third (64.45%) of the farmers belonged to low category. The overall entrepreneurial behavior score based on the cumulative raw scores of all the six dimensions revealed that, 68.33 percent of the Byadagi chilli growers had medium level of entrepreneurial behavior.