Constraints and Challenges of Women Agripreneurs in Bihar: A Multifaceted Analysis

Abstract

Women Agripreneurs are the empowering force that play a very essential role in rural transformation. India being an agrarian country, Agripreneurship not only create self-employment, but also strengthen rural economies through local enterprise and sustainability. Although, women Agripreneurship work as a stimulus for women empowerment by contribution to development of the nation still women face many obstacles like limited access to credit, lack of knowledge regarding modern technology, gender bias, low family support, lack of proper awareness, training etc. So, looking at the situation, this study focused on the various challenges faced by women Agripreneurs in Samastipur and Muzzafarpur district of Bihar. Two block namely Pusa and Kalyanpur from Samastipur District, Sakar, Muzafarpur Town area selected by purposive sampling. A total sample of 120 respondent were interviewed through personal meeting and over phone calls and data were being collected through well-structured questionnaire and analysis was done using frequency, frequency percentage and correlation co-efficient. From the study it was known that obstacles faced by women Agripreneurs were found to be significant at 1%. Therefore, obstacles faced by women Agripreneurs affected the decision taking capacity of women. It was concluded from the study that women face various problem from beginning of enterprise to run it successfully. Major problem seen were lack of access to credit, lack of proper training, lack of family support, gender bias and exposure to external market resulting limited knowledge regarding market trends, demand therefore hampering the decision-making skill of women agripreneur which restricts the growth.