Relationship between personal, socio-economic and psychological characteristics of dairy farmers and their entrepreneurial behavior

The study was conducted in Latur district of Maharashtra where two Tehsils, four villages from each Tehsil and fifteen dairy farmers from each village were selected through multistage random sampling thus making a total sample of 120 respondents. Collected data were classified, tabulated and analyzed by using statistical methods like frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, correlation coefficient and multiple regression. The findings pertaining to the relationship of selected personal, socioeconomic and psychological characteristics of dairy farmers with their entrepreneurial behaviour revealed that independent variables namely dairy farming experience, education, land holding, annual income, herd size, extension contact, social participation, use of sources of information and market orientation had positive and highly significant whereas occupation and family size of the dairy farmers had non-significant correlation with entrepreneurial behaviour of the respondents.