Alienation from Work among Entrepreneurs in Agriculture

Abstract

A large part of interest in entrepreneurship stems from the fact that economic development is the outcome of purposeful human activity and hence promoting entrepreneurship is the key to it. Entrepreneurship in agriculture is not solely guided by profit and entrepreneurs in agriculture do not form a social class like the capitalists. Recent interest in agricultural development coupled with the problems of poverty and unemployment and opening of markets has brought the concept of rural entrepreneurship to the fore. It is not simply re-distributive justice alone but of increasing the productive capacities of the rural people, particularly the young ones and their participation in the development process which has become more important. With the change in the political philosophy of the country, entrepreneurs in agriculture are looked as supplementing the existing network to accelerate the process of technology transfer to agriculture and providing supplementary sources of input supply and services, for which by and large, farmers presently depend upon State Agencies