Scaling with Paired Compression Method for Entrepreneurship Skills of Rural Youth in Agricultural Sector

Kavinila, M.; Murugan, P. P.; Pushpa, J.; Amarnath, J.S.; Prabakaran, K.

doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2019.809.218

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“…The remaining young people might have opted for farming as an ambitious choice for their future vocations. The outcomes obtained align with the findings of Kavinila's [7] research, which similarly indicated that a significant majority (91.90 percent) of entrepreneurs from the rural youth demographic were situated within the age range of 24 to 35 years. Concerning educational status around 41.67 per cent of the farm youth respondents were diploma holders followed by 37.50 per cent of graduate, 9.17 per cent of secondary level education and all other remaining categories in sum contributes to roughly about 12.00 per cent.…”

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Attitude of Farm Youths towards Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadu

Dhanush,

Murugan,

Anandaraja

et al. 2023

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The agricultural sector holds significant importance in India and stands to gain substantial benefits from the integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Therefore, it is crucial to encourage widespread adoption of Information Technologies (IT) solutions at the grassroot level to facilitate the dissemination of technological advancements. The primary focus of the research was centered around the attitude of farm youths towards Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu. Ex-post facto research design of social research was used in this present study, as the phenomenon has already taken place. Proportionate random sampling method was used to select 120 Farm youths from the four selected Blocks of Coimbatore district. The findings revealed that a predominant majority of farm youths (70.83%) held a favourable attitude towards ICTs, while a smaller percentage (08.33%) exhibited a highly favourable attitude, and the remaining group (20.83%) displayed a less favourable attitude towards ICT. The outcomes from the multiple linear regression analysis indicated that the collective influence of all thirteen independent variables accounted for 52.80 per cent of the overall variability in farm youths' attitudes towards ICT. Factors such as interaction with extension agencies, achievement orientation and decision making all played a notable role in fostering a more favourable disposition towards attitude regarding Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

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Attitude of Farm Youths towards Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadu

Dhanush,

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Anandaraja

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“…To be more focused on skills, they are multidisciplinary, and contain cognitive, affective, and behavioural elements [7]. Kavinila et al, [9] stated that most of rural youth entrepreneurs were said that, in the business Leadership skills, time management skills, communication skills, network buildings, customer care, identification of opportunities were most important traits and it leads a business in a successful way. Jardim [10] revealed that the nine competencies that make up model -creativity and innovation, initiative, self-efficacy and resilience, strategic planning and evaluation, problem-solving, transformational leadership, clear and visual communication, teamwork and networking, and digital communication -need to be investigated.…”

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“…Chaudhery [12] stated that the enterprise, which has strong leadership and strong marketing strategies, could grow in competitive environment easily and contribute to the economy of the nations. To build a strong entrepreneurship network in a country we need to polish our entrepreneurial skills, build a big dream, positive attitude, and we need to become job creator, not a job seeker [13].…”

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A Tool to Measure Entrepreneurial Skill among Agripreneurs

Elakkiya

Asokhan

2021

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Entrepreneurship skills are an individual’s ability to make business in a profitable way. The study focused on to develop a tool to measure the entrepreneurial skill among the agripreneurs by reviewing of literature. Item selection and scoring procedure had been included in this study. Based on the reliability and validity testing, this study finalized the instruments to yielding seven indicators, namely, marketing dimension, psychological magnitude, managerial skill, behavioural skill, technical skill, communication competency, cognitive skill. It is recommended that future researchers apply and thereby extend the developed measure by cross-examining the instruments presented in this study across different entrepreneurs study. The results obtained will be helpful in planning and implementing the capacity development programmes. Among seven indictors and the respective sub indicators, the indicators and sub indicators having above 0.75 relative weightage score had taken for final index. The study found that marketing skill (0.88), psychological magnitude (0.89), behavioural skill (0.79), technical skill (0.83), communication competency (0.93) and cognitive skill (0.89) were the major skill of the agri entrepreneurs, should possess to run their business effectively and efficiently.

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Scaling with Paired Compression Method for Entrepreneurship Skills of Rural Youth in Agricultural Sector

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Attitude of Farm Youths towards Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadu

Attitude of Farm Youths towards Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadu

A Tool to Measure Entrepreneurial Skill among Agripreneurs

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