ABSTRACT

Processable varieties of crops in India are blessed with multiple agri-climatic zones and has advantages of round-the-year cultivation capability. The potato farming initiated by Pepsi in Jharkhand can be useful in making potato chips that can be supplied to food chains such as McDonald's and others. Food safety is a growing concern across both developed and developing nations. Personal resourcefulness is the belief in one's own capability for initiating actions directed towards creation and growth of enterprises. Opportunity seeking involves one's ability to see situations in terms of unmet needs, identifying markets or gaps for which product concepts are to be evolved and the search for creating and maintaining a competitive advantage to derive benefits on a sustained basis. Innovative entrepreneurs often grow restless with the pace of change and lack of control over their future. Size of enterprise reflects how large an enterprise in employment terms is. McMahon found that enterprise size significantly linked to better business performance.