International Journal of Agriculture Extension and Social Development

author(s)
Ankur Adhikary and Dr. Deepa Roy

abstract
Women have a natural skill by birth in managing and creativity which was not explored before. Women entrepreneurs are playing a great role in society, especially women from the rural sector. The present study was conducted at four villages namely Angrakata, Dharma Barerkuthi and Ghughumari, Chhat Elajan under Cooch Behar II and I block respectively in Cooch Behar district of West Bengal. Purposive sampling method was followed in the case of selecting the study area and random sampling procedure was followed for the selection of the respondents. A sample of total 100 respondents was selected from the four selected villages and pre-tested interview schedule was used for the data collection through personal interview method. Statistical techniques such as percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, coefficient of correlation were used to analyze the data. The findings of the study revealed that the majority of the respondents (79%) belonged to the middle age category, the majority of the respondents (35%) had education up to primary school, 56 percent belonged to joint family, 58 percent had a medium level of annual income, and the majority of the respondents (66%) belonged to the Schedule Caste category, 33 percent of respondents identified labour as their primary occupation. The majority of the respondents (63%) are married. The study revealed that majority of the respondents (74%) had medium level of knowledgeability with medium innovativeness (85%), achievement motivation (76%), decision making ability (65%), risk taking ability (58%), low persistence level (50%), low level of manageability (38%), Medium level of hope of success (42%) with Medium level of feedback usage(62%). It could be observed that family type and annual income had positive and significant relationship with entrepreneurial behavior at 5% level of significance. On the other hand, age, education, social category and marital status showed positive and non significant relationship with entrepreneurial behaviour of rural women in the study area.