Attitude of Students Towards Participation in Agribusiness in Edo State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study investigated attitude of students towards agribusiness and constraints that can impede latent entrepreneurs from starting and running agribusiness. Simple random sampling was used to select 83 students from the list of students of college of agriculture participating in entrepreneurship training in Rubber Research Institute of Nigeria and Presco farm. Structured questionnaire was used to collect data for the study. Data obtained were described using percentage, mean and analysed using logit regression at p ≤ 0.05. Result revealed that majority of the students had favourable attitude ( 3.43) towards entrepreneurship and 97.6% were willing to be entrepreneur. Difficulty in finding customers ( 2.02) and fear of tough competition 2.02) were perceived as constraints to  entrepreneurship. The most important factors that influenced the students’ willingness to become entrepreneur after completion of schooling were marital status and number of family members self-employed. The study concludes that the youth had favourable attitude toward entrepreneurship and are willing to be entrepreneur as long as market and start-up capital are available. Keywords: Youth, attitude, entrepreneurship,