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Agricultural Science Digest, volume 38 issue 2 (june 2018) : 118-122

Factors influencing entrepreneurial behavior of fishery growers in Dimapur district of Nagaland

Amod Sharma, Bendangjungla, Rachana Sharma
1Department of Agricultural Economics, Nagaland University, SASRD, Medziphema Campus, Dimapur-797 106, Nagaland, India
Cite article:- Sharma Amod, Bendangjungla, Sharma Rachana (2018). Factors influencing entrepreneurial behavior of fishery growers in Dimapur district of Nagaland. Agricultural Science Digest. 38(2): 118-122. doi: 10.18805/ag.D-4721.
The present study comprises a sample of 90 fishery growers by following multi stage simple random sampling technique to access the factors influencing the entrepreneurial behavior in Dimapur district of Nagaland. It is well known fact that fishery is an important enterprise in entire north eastern region of India; which comprising of a brother and seven sister states. The study revealed that entrepreneurial behavior has an positive impact due to the majority of fishery growers had medium level of knowledge about improved package of practices of fishery enterprise viz; farm decision making ability, family size, economic motivation, marketing orientation and scientific orientation programme aspects were enhance the knowledge about reorient relevant training programmes giving due cognizance to the influencing factors. 
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  10. Sharma, Amod. (2012) Inter-state Disparities in socio-economic development in North East Region of India. Journal of Agricultural Science. 4 (9). September: 236-243. 
  11. Sharma, Amod. (2012) Trends of area, production and productivity of fruit crops in Nagaland State of North Eastern Hill Region of India. Economic Affairs. 57 (3). September: 259-276.
  12. Sharma, Amod. (2013). Growth and variability in area, production and productivity of rapeseed mustard in Nagaland: A Review. Agriculture Science Digest. 33 (1). March: 60-62.
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