PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES TOWARDS AGRIPRENEURSHIP: A RELATIVE IMPORTANCE INDEX ANALYSIS

Abstract

Agripreneurship in organic farming started in Mizoram since 1996. Since then, the government is taking a number of initiatives, starting with educating the entrepreneurs, running motivational campaigns, providing training, giving finance, arranging for raw materials, managing technologies, extending marketing help, granting subsidies, etc., in order to give a boost to entrepreneurship development in different parts of the country. Howver, these initiatives have hardly reached all the areas of Mizoram, and so agribusiness conditions are still very backward, although there are high potentials for development. There seems to be many challenges and hindrances which work as barriers in the development of entrepreneurial endeavour in the agripreneurship in organic farming especially in the state of Mizoram. Thus, this paper analyses problems and challenges of Agripreneurs from six (6) districts in Mizoram  which mainly emphasized to understand the constraints of Farmers Producer Organisation, Villages within FPO’s and district wise in Mizoram.