International Journal of Agriculture Extension and Social Development

author(s)
Jayasudha J, RM Naik and KL Chaudhary

abstract
Agripreneurship is combination of agriculture and business. Though the blooming opportunities available in agripreneurship sector, students are reluctant to start their venture due to some barriers. So, the study has undertaken to study the barriers in agripreneurship and obtain their suggestions. The present study was conducted among the agriculture students in four state agricultural universities in Gujarat. An Ex-post-facto research design was used. The total respondent size was 300. Out of the foremost barriers experienced by students under each category, majority were reported agripreneurship is considered as low socio- economic status in our society as the major socio-personal barrier, less number of visits/tours to various enterprises for exposure as the main management and technical barrier, complicated and difficult loan lending procedure as financial and infrastructural barrier and lack of market intelligence regarding price forecasting. The major suggestions offered by the students to overcome the barriers in each category such as, to government agencies and educational institutions need to support agripreneurship as a career, exposure visits/ tours should be organized to different agri-enterprises, creating awareness regarding different schemes which are promoting entrepreneurship and product certification procedures should be simplified.