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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 and B.T. Olatunji
Corresponding Author: Fausat M. Ibrahim
Submitted: 2010 September, 25
Accepted: 2010 October, 19
Published: 2011 March, 15 |
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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.
Key words: Animal-agriculture, entrepreneurship, behavioural intention, descriptive norms, perceived economic viability, ,
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B. Osikabor, A.A. Adesope, A.G. Ibrahim, F.M. Ibrahim, O.F. Babayemi and B.T. Olatunji, . Animal-agriculture Based Entrepreneurship: Descriptive Norms, Perceived Economic Viability and Behavioural Intention among Final Year Agriculture Related Students in Ibadan, Nigeria. Asian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, (2): 87-93.
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