A Study on Extent of Adoption of Agro- Enterprises by Women Agripreneurs and Constraints Faced Due to the Climatic Severity in Coastal Odisha, India

Debasmita Nayak *

Department of Extension Education, OUAT, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

Radhashyam Panigrahi

Department of Extension Education, OUAT, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

Angelina Patro

Department of Extension Education, OUAT, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.


Abstract

Women agripreneurship development became an essential part of human resource development. It makes the women financially independent and enhances the self esteem of them. The present study has been conducted with the objective to know the extent of adoption of agricultural enterprises by women agripreneurs of Coastal Odisha and it also determine climatic constraints. The study has been conducted in two districts of Odisha that are Balasore and Jagatsinghpur. Total 210 women agripreneurs were included in the study. Total sample size for the present study was 210. Result shows that in the research area Crop production enerprise is the highly adopted enterprise with a mean score of 2.00 and gap percentage of 33.34 where the fishery enterprise is the least adopted enterprise with a mean score of 1.19 and gap percentage of 60.15. Among the constraints incidence of flood and cyclone emerged as the main constraint.

Keywords: Agripreneurship, extent of adoption, gap percentage, climate


How to Cite

Nayak, Debasmita, Radhashyam Panigrahi, and Angelina Patro. 2022. “A Study on Extent of Adoption of Agro- Enterprises by Women Agripreneurs and Constraints Faced Due to the Climatic Severity in Coastal Odisha, India”. International Journal of Environment and Climate Change 12 (10):819-22. https://doi.org/10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i1030868.