Author(s): Peddi Naga Harsha Vardhan, Deepa Roy, PK Pal and Manoj Kanti Debnath

Abstract: In India youth constitute a numerically dominant potential and resourceful segment of the population. Agriculture sector is major employment provider, and contributes 16–17% of the GDP to our country economy. It is obvious that, entrepreneurship in agriculture is having a great scope for the young generation of our society. And they will only be interested if it becomes economically and intellectually attractive. The present study makes an attempt to find out the problems faced by the budding Agripreneurs. A total of 200 respondents were selected for the study from Cooch Behar II and Mathabanga II blocks of Cooch Behar district. The data was collected via structured interview Schedule and ranked using Mean Percentage Score (MPS). From the study it is known that Socio-Economic problems has appeared as the major problem followed by management and technical problems, financial and infrastructure problems and marketing problems. Problems faced by the budding Agri-prenuers can be overcome to some extent by promoting Agripreneurship as a career by Government and Educational institutes and also financial support is to be provided to some extent by the Government.

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