scholarly journals Factors Affecting Entrepreneurial Intention of Students in Agricultural Sector

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-122
Author(s):  
Apoorva Sahni ◽  
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Yasmin Janjhua ◽  
Krishan Kumar Sharma ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Business Area ◽  
Agricultural Students ◽  
Insight Into

India being an agrarian country, with tremendous natural resources, agricultural sector of the country is a potential business area to be developed by youth. Agricultural sector can be enhanced more through agripreneurial activities. This study provides an insight into the factors that have an effect on the entrepreneurship intention of agricultural students. It would serve as base for future studies and have implications for educators and policy makers.

Sustainable Futures

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
Environmental Challenges ◽  
Areas Of Concern ◽  
Sustainable Futures ◽  
Water Issues ◽  
Insight Into

Sustainable Futures explores the links between population growth, diminishing resources and environmental challenges, and the implications for Australia's future. Written by leaders in their field, and based on presentations from the 2013 Fenner Conference on 'Population, Resources and Climate Change', this book is a timely insight into the intertwined challenges that we currently face, and what can be done to ensure a sustainable and viable future. The book identifies the major areas of concern for Australia's future, including environmental, social and economic implications of population growth; mineral and natural resources; food, land and water issues; climate change; and the obstacles and opportunities for action. Accessible, informative and authoritative, Sustainable Futures will be of interest to policy makers, students and professionals in the fields of sustainability and population growth.

scholarly journals Dynamics of banks' lending practices to farmers in India

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Navjot Sandhu
Keyword(s):  
Information Asymmetry ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Bank Lending ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Lending Decisions ◽  
Insight Into

PurposeThis paper aims to evaluate whether small marginal farmers in India have financial constraints and to examine how bank managers make lending decisions.Design/methodology/approachA survey approach was employed, using semi-structured questionnaires with a sample of 42 banks and 185 farmers from the state of Punjab in India. The questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were carried out on a one-to-one basis and in focus groups, and their responses were analysed from the supply (banks) and demand (farmers) side regarding access to finance.FindingsThe results indicate that the Indian farming sector is a complex and multidimensional one that has dependency on both the private and public sectors because of its national importance to varying degrees. Financial lending decisions are dependent upon several non-quantifiable factors (culture, caste, family size, education) and relational bank lending practices. Such practices have an adverse impact on bankable loan applications, and this gives rise to moral hazards. Relational banking and recommendations minimise default rates, but this does not minimise information asymmetry. Subjectivity in decision-making persists, which is compounded by underdeveloped financial markets for small farmers, giving rise to financial exclusion and negatively impacting on economic growth. To overcome information asymmetry, banks rely on the qualitative factors and an excessive level of collateral when making lending decisions. The findings provide valuable insight into how banks make lending decisions and evaluates a complex matrix of relationships between farmers and providers of debt finance in a developing economy such as India.Practical implicationsPolicy makers nationally and internationally could use the results of this research to develop relevant and targeted policies to promote the agricultural sector through adopting efficient provision of finance for farmers. A major contribution of this research is to provide a fundamental evaluation of the issues facing farmers in accessing finance in developing countries.Originality/valueThis study provides an original empirical insight into a sector of the economy that has implications for food security for a country. The study has relevance for a wide range of stakeholders and policy makers of both developed and emerging economies in the world.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial Intentions among Business Students in Pakistan

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdullah Azhar ◽  
Annum Javaid ◽  
Mohsin Rehman ◽  
Asma Hyder
Keyword(s):  
Business Students ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Systematic Sampling ◽  
Nascent Entrepreneurs ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Business Graduates ◽  
Business And Management

The present exploratory study is based on the ‘Entrepreneurial Intention Model’ and has its foundation in ‘Planned Behavioural Theory’. The main focus of the study is on measuring factors affecting Entrepreneurial Intentions among business students in Pakistan. Apart from demographics, the study is particularly focused on personal attraction, perceived social norms and perceived social behaviour. The paper is based on systematic sampling methodology and targets business graduates and nascent entrepreneurs. The study will provide useful implications for educational institutions within the field of business and management, and off course for government policy makers.

scholarly journals The Effects of Academic Environment through Self-Efficacy on Entrepreneurial Intention: SEM-PLS Approach

2018 ◽  
pp. 664-669
Author(s):  
WeiLee Lim
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
University Environment ◽  
The University

Entrepreneurship has been the central focus for both policy makers and scholars alike for its role in economic and social transformation of a nation. University students are widely regarded as future builders of nation and thus, their role and intention towards entrepreneurship is of much concern. This study applies the theory of planned behaviour to analyse the factors affecting university students’ entrepreneurial intention with the inclusion of university environment. This study aims to incorporate the various variables as a comprehensive model simultaneously analysing the relationships between using SEM-PLS technique. A quantitative research design was employed with the use of 317 sample of university students from Malaysia and China universities. The study explores the effect of individual factors: attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control; together with university environment on their effect on university students’ entrepreneurial intention. The finding suggests that university environment is a significant influence of university students’ intention to entrepreneurship as a career choice. A conducive environment and support within the university elevates student’s belief in their capability to be an entrepreneur and the intention to embark on an entrepreneurial journey.

Juvenile red swamp crayfish growth affected by isolation from their mother

Biologia ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiří Patoka ◽  
Miloslav Petrtýl ◽  
Ján Koščo ◽  
Kateřina Rylková
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Social Deprivation ◽  
Procambarus Clarkii ◽  
The Other ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Red Swamp Crayfish ◽  
Rate Retardation ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThe red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii Girard, 1852) which is indigenous to North America, is the most commercially exploited species in astaciculture. Farming profitability depends mainly on crayfish growth rates. Thus research focused on factors affecting growth of crayfish is of high priority in this sector of aquaculture. Growth rate retardation related to social deprivation in crayfish has never been evaluated in crustaceans. The present experiment was carried out in order to compare growth rates of the Stage 3 juvenile red swamp crayfish from two offspring origins: maternal incubation and early separation from the mother. Juveniles were kept in three types of groups composed each by six individual: maternal incubated, early separated, and mix of both of them. Offspring origin significantly affected juvenile crayfish growth rates when maternally incubated individuals grew faster than crayfish from the other two group types. Moreover, the same significant differences were shown in number of moults. The results of the present study provide new insight into crayfish behaviour related to prior social experience of juveniles, but future studies are needed to verify our assumption.

scholarly journals Development and Application of Water and Land Resources Degradation Index (WLDI)

Earth ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 515-531
Author(s):  
Demetrios E. Tsesmelis ◽  
Christos A. Karavitis ◽  
Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos ◽  
Andreas Tsatsaris ◽  
Efthimios Zervas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Vulnerability Index ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Degradation Index ◽  
Drought Vulnerability ◽  
Environmental Pressures ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Environmentally Sensitive Areas ◽  
Environmentally Sensitive

Natural resources are gradually coming under continuous and increasing pressure due to anthropogenic interventions and climate variabilities. The result of these pressures is reflected in the sustainability of natural resources. Significant scientific efforts during the recent years focus on mitigating the effects of these pressures and on increasing the sustainability of natural resources. Hence, there is a need to develop specific indices and indicators that will reveal the areas having the highest risks. The Water and Land Resources Degradation Index (WLDI) was developed for this purpose. WLDI consists of eleven indicators and its outcome results from the spatiotemporal performance of these indicators. The WLDI is based on the Standardized Drought Vulnerability Index (SDVI) and the Environmentally Sensitive Areas Index (ESAI). The WLDI is applied for the period from October 1983 to September 1996, considering Greece as a study area. The results of the application of this index reveal the areas with the highest risks, especially in the agricultural sector, with less than the needed water quantities due to extensive periods of droughts. This index could be used by scientists, but also by policy makers, to better and more sustainably manage environmental pressures.

Guiding Informed Choices on Participation Tools in Spatial Planning

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 38-61
Author(s):  
Giorgos Somarakis ◽  
Anastasia Stratigea
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Participatory Planning ◽  
Deep Insight ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Exhaustive List ◽  
Research And Policy

Participatory Planning (PP), as a streamline approach in coping with sustainability concerns, is nowadays largely acknowledged in research and policy makers' community as a ‘bridge' between decision-making processes and society. Its implementation implies substantial preparation, ending up with certain choices on participation tools, relevant for use at the different stages of the planning process. However, lack of planners' deep insight into such tools leads them to either follow well established traditional planning paths, discouraged by a possible failure of participatory attempts; or join PP processes that lead to unsuccessful planning outcomes and frustrating participation results. The contribution of this article lies on increasing capacity of planners towards more informed PP tools' selection by: providing an exhaustive list/explanation of factors affecting such choices in each single PP context; and sketching the architecture/functioning of an e-Decision Support System (e-DSS) as a tool supporting planners towards the design of more effective PP processes.

scholarly journals Significance and Transformation of 3-Alkyl-2-Methoxypyrazines Through Grapes to Wine: Olfactory Properties, Metabolism, Biochemical Regulation, and the HP–MP Cycle

Molecules ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (24) ◽  
pp. 4598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianfang Zhao ◽  
Yanlun Ju ◽  
Xiaofeng Wei ◽  
Shuo Dong ◽  
Xiangyu Sun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Pathway ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Present Review ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Environmental Stimuli ◽  
History Of ◽  
Biochemical Regulation ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Gaining Insight

3-Alkyl-2-methoxypyrazines (MPs) contribute to the herbaceous flavor characteristics of wine and are generally considered associated with poor-quality wine. To control the MPs in grapes and wine, an accurate understanding of MP metabolism is needed. This review covers factors affecting people in the perception of MPs. Also, the history of O-methyltransferases is revisited, and the present review discusses the MP biosynthesis, degradation, and biochemical regulation. We propose the existence of a cycle between MPs and 3-alkyl-2-hydropyrazines (HPs), which proceeds via O-(de)methylation steps. This cycle governs the MP contents of wines, which make the cycle the key participant in MP regulation by genes, environmental stimuli, and microbes. In conclusion, a comprehensive metabolic pathway on which the HP–MP cycle is centered is proposed after gaining insight into their metabolism and regulation. Some directions for future studies on MPs are also proposed in this paper.

scholarly journals Which Factors Affect Probability of Women Using Prenatal Care? The Case of Bangladesh

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-46
Author(s):  
Sharjil Muktafi Haque ◽  
A. K Enamul Haque
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Prenatal Care ◽  
Regression Model ◽  
Logistic Regression Model ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Insight Into

This paper determines the probability of women in Bangladesh taking prenatal care based on changes in socioeconomic and health-related variables. Insight into factors affecting prenatal care usage will help policy-makers redirect health-related strategies and policies in more equitable directions. We used a total of 1,099 cross-sectional observations from Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (2000) to estimate a logistic regression model. Our results show that education and income is positively associated with odds of women taking prenatal care while increase in age reduces odds of taking this service. We end by making several policy-relevant recommendations.

DAMPAK KEBIJAKAN FISKAL TERHADAP KINERJA SEKTOR PERTANIAN DI SULAWESI TENGGARA

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
La Ode Jabuddin ◽  
Ayub M Padangaran ◽  
Azhar Bafadal Bafadal
Keyword(s):  
Fiscal Policy ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Simultaneous Equations ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Land Area ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Historical Simulation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Direct Expenditure

This study aims to: (1) Knowing the dynamics of fiscal policy and the performance of the agricultural sector, (2) Analyze the factors that influence fiscal policy and the performance                   of the agricultural sector, and (3) Analyzing the impact of fiscal policy on the performance of the agricultural sector. The data used in this study were pooled 2005-2013 data in the aggregate. Econometric model the impact of fiscal policy on the performance of the agricultural sector is built in the form of simultaneous equations, consisting of 7 equations with 25 total variables in the model, 7 endogenous variables, 12 exogenous variables, and 6 variables lag. The model is estimated by 2SLS method SYSLIN procedures and historical simulation with SIMNLIN procedure.The results showed that: (1) The development of fiscal policy in Southeast Sulawesi from year to year tends to increase, (2) The performance of the agricultural sector from the aspect of GDP has decreased, from the aspect of labor is still consistent, in terms of investment to grow positively, and assign roles which means to decrease the number of poor people, (3) factors affecting fiscal policy is local revenues, equalization funds, other revenues, as well as the lag fiscal policy, (4) the factors that affect the performance of the agricultural sector from the aspect GDP is labor, direct expenditure and GDP lag; from the aspect of labor is the total labor force, investment, land area, direct expenditure, as well as the lag of labor; from the aspect of investment is influenced by GDP per capita, land area, interest rates and investment lag; as well as from the aspect of poor people, are affected by population, investments, direct expenditure and poverty lag, (5). Fiscal policy impact on the agricultural sector GDP increase, a decrease in the number of poor, declining agricultural laborers, and a decrease in the amount of investment in the agricultural sector.Keywords: Fiscal policy, the performance of the agricultural sector, the simultaneous equations

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