Capacity Building through Diversified Floricultural Agricultural Activities among Female Entrepreneurs in Rural Haryana

Women constitute about half of the world population and represent more than 40.0 per cent of the global labour force, 43.0 per cent of the agricultural workforce. Female farmers receive 5.0 percent of all agricultural extension services worldwide. The rural women in most parts of the developing world carry a majority of the responsibilities for the production of food for household subsistence as well as for the market. They produce, gather, and process a wide variety of food and are found to play vital role in environmental management and development too. This paper intends to place a particular emphasis on the entrepreneurial attributes and relationship with independents variables and to enhance capacity building of women in diversified floricultural agriculture activities for entrepreneurship. Hisar district of Haryana was selected purposively having State Agriculture University and other State and Central institutions pertaining to agriculture and allied areas. A sample of 200 respondents was selected from four villages namely Mangali, Kaimri, Rawalwas, and Shapur. Results revealed that majority of the respondents reported high category for ability to motive other (57.5%), Self-confidence (55.0%), Skill competence (57.0%) and foresightedness (47.0%) for personal competencies, launching competencies, commitment competencies and managerial competencies, respectively. Significant gain in knowledge of the respondents was observed for all the ten components about floriculture diversified agricultural activities for capacity building of the respondents.