Animal-agriculture Based Entrepreneurship: Descriptive Norms, Perceived Economic Viability and Behavioural Intention among Final Year Agriculture Related Students in Ibadan, Nigeria

B. Osikabor ； A. A. Adesope ； A. G. Ibrahim ； F. M. Ibrahim ； O. F. Babayemi ； B. T. Olatunji

《Asian Journal of Agricultural Sciences》 3卷2期 (2011/03) Pp. 87-93

並列摘要

Agriculture and entrepreneurship are tools of salvaging poverty, especially among agriculturally educated youths. This study therefore investigated descriptive norms, perceived economic viability and behavioural intention regarding animal-agriculture based entrepreneurship among final year agriculture related students in Ibadan, Nigeria. Four hundred and twenty one copies of randomly administered questionnaires yielded data whose analysis reveal that a little above half of the respondents have ‘serious’ behavioural intention to engage animal-agriculture based entrepreneurship. Marital status, institutional category and discipline affiliation had significant effects on this behavioural intention (p＜0.05) while gender did not (p＞0.05). Age and descriptive norms are significantly related to this behavioural intention, but perceived economic viability is the best predictor of same (p＜0.01). Being married, a college rather than a university student as well as being in animal-related discipline are associated with greater behavioural intention to engage in animal-agriculture based entrepreneurship.

並列關鍵字

Animal-agriculture ； entrepreneurship ； behavioural intention ； descriptive norms ； perceived economic viability