Investigating Entrepreneurial values in rural youth

Abstract

Rural youth is highly sensitive to income differential that exists between farm and non-farmoccupations, interest rates and farm prices, which explains their higher occupational mobility.Various studies observed that young farmers, especially the small and marginal farmers, express adesire to take up other occupations and quit agriculture as they believe that the utility they wouldderive from non-farm employment would be higher vis-à-vis utility from farming. Low viability ofsmallholder agriculture and growing labour opportunities in non-farm sector are attracting ruralyouth to cities