Constraints Faced by Entrepreneur (farmers) in Maintaining their Farm Enterprise and Suggestions

The present study was conducted in Ashti, Shirur. Patoda, Beed and Kaij tahsils of Beed district. The study is about entrepreneurial behaviour of farmers in relation to personal characteristics in selected areas of Beed district. The study was carried out at twenty five villages of Beed district which were selected randomly. From each village five entrepreneurs (farmers) were selected randomly for study and data were collected by direct interview. Thus, total 125 entrepreneurs were selected for the study, viz., majority of the farmers expressed financial problem, lack of exposure to mass media and information and marketing problem as reported by 76.00, 64.80 and 60.80 per cent, respectively followed by lack of knowledge (55.20%), lack of food grain storage facility (52.00%), labour problem (46.40%) and lack of transportation facilities (44.80%), respectively.