Entrepreneurial behaviour of raisin producers in Sangli district of Maharashtra

The study conducted in Sangli district of Maharashtra in the year 2022-23 aimed to investigate the entrepreneurial behaviour of raisin producers in the Sangli district. The study followed an ex-post facto research design and collected data from 140 respondents from 14 villages in two tehsils, Tasgaon and Miraj, which were purposively selected based on the basis of maximum area under raisin production. The data were collected through personal interviews and analysed using suitable statistical tools. The results revealed that majority (65.00 percent) of the respondents exhibited a medium level of entrepreneurial behaviour. This was followed by (15.72 percent) with a high level and (19.28 percent) with a low level of entrepreneurial behaviour of raisin producers respectively. The study found that several factors that could be responsible for the resulted entrepreneurial behaviour of raisin producers such as majority of the respondents were belongs to medium level of innovativeness, achievement motivation, decision making ability, economic motivation, risk orientation, leadership ability and management orientation The study concluded that designing appropriate strategies with training to focus on behaviour of raisin producers is essential to strengthen their entrepreneurial behaviour.