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An Empirical Study of Attitude towards Entrepreneurial Intention among Pakistan and China Agricultural Graduates in Agribusiness

  • 1. Ph.D. Scholar Student, College of Economics and Management,Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, PR China
  • 2. Professor, College of Economics and Management, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, PR China
  • 3. Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, Pakistan
  • 4. Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, Pakistan
  • 5. Ph.D. Student, College of Economics and Management,Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei PR China

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The purpose of this paperis toinvestigate the difference of attitudes towards entrepreneurial intention (EI) of Agriculturalgraduates in agribusiness, this cannot be realized without harnessing the quality human resource base of the youth, especially graduates from agricultural faculties, Pakistani and ChineseAgri-students used to identify thepossible differences between potential entrepreneurs from these distinct national contexts. The data includes set of agricultural universities being a surveyed (n= 640)was collected in 2016. The Descriptive and Binary Logistic Regressionwas employed in order to analyze through SPSS 25.00toexamine the effect of individual’s attitudes on EIin agribusiness, independent variables include individual’s perceived capabilities, the ability torecognize business opportunities, entrepreneurial network, risk perceptions as well as range of socio-cultural attitudes. The findings support the relationship between an individual’s attitudes and theirentrepreneurial intention. Individual’s capability, opportunity recognition, networks andrange of socio-cultural perceptions all influence EI significantly also, age, gender, the educationalbackground of students, mediamotivation and attention, self-realization status, practical agricultural experience and risks perception were found to have a significantinfluence on students’ intention to take up agribusiness as a source of future self-employment avenue upon graduation

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