Entrepreneurial ability of youth farmers

The study is conducted in 10 villages of 2 talukas of Kheda district of Gujarat with 120 respondents to find out the entrepreneurial ability of youth farmers as entrepreneur ability is a strong indicator to predict whether, they are capable for taking a calculative risk and managing available resources efficiently or not. The study revealed that more than two fifth (42.50 per cent) of the respondents were observed with moderate level of entrepreneurial ability in youth farmers. The moderate level of entrepreneurial ability was observed uniformly amongst the youth farmers with an irrespective level of their type of family, occupation, land holding, annual income, social participation, extension contact, agriculture mass media exposure, and digital media exposure. In contrast, it was observed positive amongst the farmers with a high level of education and negative and significant with farming experience of the youth farmers.