A Study on Extent of Adoption of Agro- Enterprises by Women Agripreneurs and Constraints Faced Due to the Climatic Severity in Coastal Odisha, India

Abstract

Women agripreneurship development became an essential part of human resource development. It makes the women financially independent and enhances the self esteem of them. The present study has been conducted with the objective to know the extent of adoption of agricultural enterprises by women agripreneurs of Coastal Odisha and it also determine climatic constraints. The study has been conducted in two districts of Odisha that are Balasore and Jagatsinghpur. Total 210 women agripreneurs were included in the study. Total sample size for the present study was 210. Result shows that in the research area Crop production enerprise is the highly adopted enterprise with a mean score of 2.00 and gap percentage of 33.34 where the fishery enterprise is the least adopted enterprise with a mean score of 1.19 and gap percentage of 60.15. Among the constraints incidence of flood and cyclone emerged as the main constraint.

Assessment of Major Problems Faced by Coastal Farmers of India

“…Among the weather-related problems, the problem of floods, irregular monsoons, unseasonal rains and gale winds were reported by respondents. Nayak et al [12] also reported floods and cyclones as the main constraints for agro-enterprises in the coastal region. In pests & diseases, cashew stem and root borer, tea mosquito bug in cashew; wilt in black pepper; mites, rhinoceros beetle & rugose white fly in coconut; koleroga and yellow leaf disease in arecanut; fruit fly in mango; viral diseases in papaya and okra were reported.…”