Factors affects agricultural entrepreneurial intention of agribusiness students

Abstract

The low intention of the younger generation in entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector is an important issue for Indonesia. Youth prefers to work in the non-agricultural sector than in the agricultural sector. The formation of agricultural entrepreneurs must be carried out since the university education period. Especially agribusiness students who have a concentration in agricultural business. So as to evaluate student intentions, a study of entrepreneurial intentions is needed. This study aims to analyse the factors that influence the entrepreneurial intentions in the agricultural sector for students who have been studying agribusiness entrepreneurship. Research respondents are agribusiness students of Bengkulu University who have received entrepreneurship courses. The number of respondents as many as 129 people. Research data is primary data, and primary data are made using questionnaire and literature study. The type of data used is quantitative and processed using partial least square (PLS) analysis tools. The result is Attitude toward behaviour has no significant effect on student intention to be agripreneur with value of P-value, Subjective norm very significant effect on intention with P value is 4.329 and Perceive behaviour control has a significant effect on entrepreneurship intention in the agricultural sector with P-value is 0.046.