Aspirations of Students of Open Agriculture Education Centres Towards Agri-Enterpreneurship in Nandurbar District

At present so many rural youth are students of open and distance education and are living in rural areas having different aspirations, habits and values of life. The development of personal, social, economical and spiritual aspects of these students are possible, only when their aspirations, habits and values of life are recognized early and guided properly. Therefore, in this study, aspirations regarding agri- enterpreneurship of the rural students were considered and conducted in open agriculture education centres located in Nandurbar district of Maharashtra which would be useful to the agencies involved in the development of them. The exploratory design was used and the data from 120 open agriculture education centres students were collected with the help of interview schedule. The findings emerged out of the present investigation was that the half of the respondents had high level of aspiration about agri-entrepreneurship and it has been revealed that majority of the respondents were aspired as “Yes” with the statements that, to start own agribusiness.