Entrepreneurial Behaviour of Fish Farmers in Dhamtari District of Chhattisgarh

AbstractFish farming is emerging as a vital occupation highlighting its important in the mainstream agricultural sectors and supporting millions of livelihoods in the world. Inland fish farming is one of the major sectors apart from coastlines utilizing water bodies such as rivers, reservoirs, perennial and seasonal ponds in the village. The study was carried out to assess the entrepreneurial behaviour of fish farmers by selecting the total of 150 fish farmers through proportionate stratified random sampling technique. The data were collected by personal interview method with the help of structured interview schedule and statistically analyzed after subjecting the data. The findings revealed that the majority of the fish farmers had medium level (68.00%) of entrepreneurial behaviour followed by low (16.67%) and high (15.33%) level of entrepreneurial behaviour of fish farmers, respectively. Further, the data of all eight attributes of entrepreneurial behaviour of fish farmers revealed that cosmopoliteness and risk orientation (both of equal 65.33%), innovativeness (59.33%), leadership ability (83.33%), economic motivation (80.00%), decision making ability (84.00%), achievement motivation (80.66%) and information seeking behaviour (65.33%) were also found the medium level of entrepreneurial behaviour of fish farmers. Hence, it is recommended that converting the low and medium level to high level of entrepreneurial behaviour of fish farmers, enhancing the knowledge of fish farmers by the subject experts through organizing the awareness cum trainings and capacity building programmes to improve the knowledge level and change in mindset of fish farmers towards positive direction will ultimately led to their adoption of the innovative techniques as well as undertaking the fish farming as a business venture.