Vol. 12, Special Issue 12 (2023)

Author(s):
D Karthik, MCA Devi and S Subash

Abstract:
The present study has been taken up with specific objectives to study the entrepreneurial behaviour of youth in dairying to know the influence of profile characteristics of Youth in relation to their entrepreneurial behaviour. A sample size of 220 respondents was selected. The correlation analysis indicated that education, dairy farming experience, social participation, land holding, livestock possession, milk production, milk sale, annual income, marketing behaviour, information seeking behaviour, knowledge on improved dairy farming practices had positive and significant relationship with entrepreneurial behaviour of youth in dairying while gender and family size had negative and significant relationship. The significant variation in entrepreneurial behaviour was explained by the independent variables covered under this study to the extent of 78.00 per cent, where social participation, knowledge on improved dairy farming practices, education, land holding, annual income, milk production, dairy farming experience, livestock possession and family size in the order of importance were the contributing factors.