Performance Analysis of South-Indian Mushroom Units:Imperative Policy Implications for their Preparedness for Global Competitiveness

Shirur, Mahantesh; Shivalingegowda, N. S.; Chandregowda, M. J.; Rana, Rajesh K.

doi:10.18520/cs/v115/i11/2141-2146

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“…Vermicompost enterprise units were smaller in scale of operation than other enterprises, resulting in least employment generation and revenue among all other studied enterprises. The sub-optimal size of the discontinued units was a key indicator of low performance of mushroom enterprises (Shirur et al 2018).…”

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Drivers of Functioning or Discontinuation of Small-Scale Agri Entrepreneurship in Rural India

Chandre,

Rana,

Dubey

et al. 2024

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Youth in rural India have been witnessing a paradoxical situation of unemployment on one hand and untapped potential for transforming agriculture to agribusiness on the other. Realizing this, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) implemented the “Attracting and Retaining Youth in Agriculture (ARYA)” project since 2016-17. The impact of the project on the extent of livelihood was assessed by comparing ‘functional’ and ‘discontinued’ enterprises with primary data from 1033 units, spread across 25 states of the country. The study attempted to know whether functioning or discontinuation was anything to do with the choice of an enterprise or was it influenced by other factors. Nine types of activities were subjected to economic performance analysis. Despite passing through COVID pandemic, the functional units provided significantly higher quanta of income and employment compared to discontinued enterprises. Composite entrepreneurial factor index, a measure of entrepreneurial ability, was subjected to test the hypothesis that entrepreneurial competencies, age, education, landholding, livelihood-capital status and utilization of information-sources influence the performance of small-scale agri enterprises.

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Drivers of Functioning or Discontinuation of Small-Scale Agri Entrepreneurship in Rural India

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Rana,

Dubey

et al. 2024

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“…Data on the performance of the mushroom growing entrepreneurs was collected with the scale developed by Shirur et al (2018). The 'Performance Index' was operationally defined as the combination of existing infrastructural, social capital, economic and efficiency dimensions of the mushroom unit and their incremental expansion or growth with the passage of time.…”

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Critical dimensions of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial behaviour among mushroom growers: Investigation through Principal Component Analysis

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Chandregowda³

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Mushroom cultivation is often promoted as profitable and income generating agri-business activity, while there is a very high rate of attrition in mushroom entrepreneurship. Performance of mushroom enterprise as a physical attribute and the entrepreneurial behaviour of mushroom growing farmers as a psychological attribute plays an important role in the success of the mushroom entrepreneurship. Both these variables are in turn influenced by several dimensions rendering it difficult to comprehend the nature of variability observed in them. Therefore, the principal component analysis (PCA) of these two variables was done for variable reduction and to understand their influence on mushroom entrepreneurship. The results of PCA ascertain the relative importance of different dimensions on the variables through Eigen weightages. Based on the findings, suitable strategies and necessary policy interventions are identified to make the mushroom entrepreneurship as a potential agri-business to augment farmers’ income.

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“…The concept of FPOs appears very appealing and attractive to ensure economic empowerment of small holder farmers through innovative and entrepreneurial initiatives. Entrepreneurial initiatives and farmers' innovations to fulfil this aim has been studied and documents by various authors (Shirur et al, 2016;Nain et al, 2018;Shirur et al, 2018;Nain et al, 2019;Shirur et al, 2019;Kobba et al, 2020;Nain et al, 2021). However, all the established FPOs are not in a position to operate efficiently and sustainably (Deka et al, 2020).…”

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Behavioural Determinants of Functionality of Farmer Producer Organisations in Punjab

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Tiwari

Monga³

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Small and marginal farming communities of Indian agriculture account for more than 85%of the total farming households. They face the challenges of land fragmentation, high costof inputs and inability to market their produce efficiently. To tackle these challenges, policymakers came up with the model of farmers’ mutual cooperation through Farmer ProducerOrganisations (FPOs). This study conducted in Punjab analyses the behavioural factorsresponsible for functionality of FPOs. A random selection of 150 members from 5 functionaland 5 non-functional FPOs (i.e., 15 respondents from each selected FPO) was made andthe respondents were interviewed personally. The findings revealed that the members(including management) of the functional FPOs had higher risk bearing capacity, greatereconomic motivation and more innovativeness as compared to the respondents from non-functional FPOs. Similarly, respondents from functional FPOs were socially, economicallyand managerially more empowered than the non-functional FPOs. Business skills of themembers, including the managerial members, of functional FPOs were also better ascompared to those from the non-functional FPOs. Regression estimates revealed that thefunctionality, better academic qualification, bigger land holding and joint family systemwere responsible for the higher net annual income of the respondents.

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Performance Analysis of South-Indian Mushroom Units:Imperative Policy Implications for their Preparedness for Global Competitiveness

Cited by 6 publications

References 6 publications

Drivers of Functioning or Discontinuation of Small-Scale Agri Entrepreneurship in Rural India

Drivers of Functioning or Discontinuation of Small-Scale Agri Entrepreneurship in Rural India

Critical dimensions of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial behaviour among mushroom growers: Investigation through Principal Component Analysis

Behavioural Determinants of Functionality of Farmer Producer Organisations in Punjab

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