The Potential Supply Of University Educated Agribusiness Entrepreneurs: A Sri Lankan Perspective (1997)
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@MISC{Rosa97thepotential,
author = {Peter Rosa and Stirling Fk La and Weejaye Jayatilaka and Sarath Kodithuwakku},
title = {The Potential Supply Of University Educated Agribusiness Entrepreneurs: A Sri Lankan Perspective},
year = {1997}
}
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Abstract
The paper discusses the need for high quality agricultural entrepreneurs in the light of wider debates on agribusiness development, and explores these issues empirically through a survey of the entrepreneurial career aspirations of Sri Lankan students from Peradeniya. Aricultural students are more enterprising in their attitudes and aspirations than their local reputation suggests. They nevertheless are strongly orientated secure professional careers in government service and employment. It is suggested that the supply of highly qualified agricultural entrepreneurs may be less affected by motivation than by lack of knowledge and resources on how to effectively set up new profitable ventures. Introduction In developing countries, the agricultural sector usually accounts for a large proportion of GDP, with a majority of people occupied in agricultural production, either as labourers on large scale multinational enterprises, or as small `subsistence' farmers. The large-scale agribusines...
Keyphrases
sri lankan perspective university educated agribusiness entrepreneur potential supply local reputation large scale multinational enterprise aricultural student agribusiness development agricultural production large-scale agribusines high quality agricultural entrepreneur entrepreneurial career aspiration government service new profitable venture sri lankan student qualified agricultural entrepreneur large proportion secure professional career wider debate agricultural sector
