Author(s): S Angles, P Balaji, C Muralidharan, S Gurunathan and P Senthilkumar

Abstract: The Indian agriculture need entrepreneurship for agricultural development and it is the path breaking need for sustainable development of the sector. In this context an attempt was made to study the entrepreneurship development and the enterprise that are to be taken up as business ventures and to assess the level of capital investment that is going to be invested in the business among the students of third year Bachelor of Farm Technology degree programme. It was found that most of the respondents would like to improve the level of existing business or to initiate new business based on the experience gained through the degree programme. Further the students need more skill oriented programmes relating to specific technologies like high tech crop production, marketing such as sales promotion, acquisition and use of market information and export of agricultural commodities along with financial services.

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