Problems Faced by Women Agri-Entrepreneur in Tamil Nadu: An Economic Analysis

Abstract

Women entrepreneur is a person who makes revolutionary changes and creates new jobs for themselves and others also. The educated women do not want to limit their lives in the four walls of the house. In Tamil Nadu, more than 80 per cent of undergraduate agriculture students belongs to women while not even five per cent turned to entrepreneur.  Government spends huge amount for agri-Entrepreneurship trainings and banks also providing collateral free loans but takers from women agri-Entrepreneurship is very less. The objective of the study is to find out the reasons for poor uptake of Entrepreneurship by women, to find out problem faced by women agri-Entrepreneur and to suggest suitable policy measures to overcome the problems. VAPS, Madurai a leading AC&ABC institute was purposively selected for the study and total sample size is 100 women trainers. Women entrepreneur are facing lot of problems viz... Marriage and family situation, finance, fear of failure, lack of confidence. Women are unable to market their goods efficiently.  Family should support women Entrepreneur and encourage them to establish and run business successfully. Government organizations should be liberal in providing financial assistance to them and also continuous training is necessary to improve the women Entrepreneur.  The study concludes that only few women are interested to start the new business and Entrepreneurship.  Women entrepreneur are still lack of confidence in establishing new business venture. Government should facilitate more women participation in Entrepreneurship programmes.

Keywords: Women-Entrepreneur, AC&ABC, Lack of finance