Development of Scale to Examine the Entrepreneurial Behaviour among the Agriculture Students of Farm Universities in Karnataka
C. V. Sanketh *
Department of Agricultural Extension, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore, Karnataka-560065, India.
K. P. Raghuprasad
Department of Agricultural Extension, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore, Karnataka-560065, India.
S. Ganesamoorthi
Department of Agricultural Extension, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore, Karnataka-560065, India.
N. R. Gangadharappa
Department of Agricultural Extension, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore, Karnataka-560065, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
An effort is made in the present investigation to develop a scale to examine the entrepreneurial behaviour among the students who were in the final year of their basic degree in different farm universities of Karnataka state. The developed scale consists of 35 statements categorised under seven important dimensions. The total final year agriculture students in farm universities in Karnataka during 2019-20 were around 1200, but the scale was administrated to 50 final year students in the College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore (UAS(B)) during 2019-20. The developed entrepreneurial behaviour scale was found to be highly reliable and valid. It was found that around two –fifth of students (38.00 %) were having medium entrepreneurial behaviour.
Keywords: Entrepreneurial behaviour, students, farm universities, validity.