ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN AGRIBUSINESS ENTERPRISES A STUDY OF GARHWAL MANDAL REGION OF UTTARAKHAND STATE OF INDIA

The study mainly wanted to find out the aspects having an impact on the entrepreneurship growth and progress of small and micro agribusiness firms. First hand responses from 100 proprietors/supervisors of small and micro agriculture related business projects in Garhwal mandal region of Uttrakhand state was rationally chosen for the research. The same was analyzed using expressive statistical tools and models of multiple regression of analysis. Results explain majority of the owners and managers of agribusiness being male (86%), married (75%). The results of the study revealed that the greater part of the respondents (55%) had graduation level education and had started agribusiness (48%) because they could not find any other source of earning livelihood Factor analysis from various regression analysis illustrated that factors like age, gender, marital status and probable production volume had an encouraging association with the level of association with agribusiness enterprise while the entrepreneur's family size and key source of livelihood had negative relationship. Secondary source of income, membership of Cooperative and educational skills were not extensively correlated with level of involvement in agribusiness enterprise development. The research paper advocates useful and satisfactory entrepreneurship policies such as removal of middle men as they hinder the growth and development of agribusiness entrepreneurship as a way of actualizing the existing startup schema of the present government of Garhwal region of Uttarakhand State on entrepreneurship encouragement