Agropreneurship for Sustainable Development – College Students’ Perspective

Abstract

Education for Sustainable Development is essential for transforming attitudes, raising consciousness and giving people the information regarding the importance of embracing sustainable behaviours. This induces the research team to identify the perception of the college students’ towards agropreneurship for sustainable development. The research team has analysed the relationship between the demographic profile and the students’ level of Perception towards agropreneurship for Sustainable Development. Besides, the research team had made an attempt to identify the impetus “P” among the 5P’s of Sustainable development goals. Both the primary and secondary data were used for this study. The primary data were collected using Google forms from 160 respondents.  The collected data were analysed using statistical tools such as Percentage analysis with Graph, Chi Square Test and Weighted Average Method. The study found that, the demographic profiles like gender and academic domain influenced the perception of student community towards agropreneurship for Sustainable Development. It was identified that, among the 5P’s framework of Sustainable development goals, the student community gave prime priority to the framework “People” followed by the other frameworks Planet, Partnership, Prosperity and Peace.  The study revealed that, the student community have a positive Perception towards agropreneurship for Sustainable Development. The student community believes that, their Career as an agropreneur will make a balance between Economy, Ecology and Equity dimension of Sustainability.