International Journal of Agriculture Extension and Social Development

author(s)
CH Arundhathi, S Ganesamoorthi, YN Shivalingaiah, HS Latha and TL Mohan Kumar

abstract
The study was undertaken during 2021-2022 at state agricultural institutions in Karnataka, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala states to analyze the entrepreneurship development of undergraduate agricultural students who are yet to complete the student READY program. The components provided by the selected universities include rural agricultural work experience (RAWE), agro-industrial attachment (AIA), experiential learning/hands-on training, and project reports. Using simple random sampling, a total of 160 respondents (40 per university) were chosen. Data was collected via mailed questionnaires, and the data was analyzed using proper statistical procedures. The results showed that nearly two-fifths (39.38%) of agricultural students had medium entrepreneurship development followed by low (32.50%) and high (28.12%) entrepreneurship development. Among the thirteen dimensions, commitment and determination has ranked first followed by goal setting (Rank II), management orientation (Rank III), opportunity obsession (Rank IV), courage (Rank V) and achievement motivation (Rank VI).Using kruskal-wallis one-way analysis of variance test found thatagricultural students of UASB had a mean rank of 105.78 for entrepreneurship development, which was followed by those of PJTSAU (91.76), KAU (70.58), and TNAU (53.89) in the same order. At the 5% (7.82) and 1% (11.34) levels of significance, the H value was determined to be 29.136, which is higher than the H critical value.Modules should include latest technologies of agri-entrepreneurship. Students should be attached to progressive farmers, incubation centres as well as agro-industries which are focusing on research and development.