(Nowy Sacz School of Business – National-Louis University, 2015) Apata, Temidayo Gabriel
Entrepreneurship process has been argued as opportunity-driven, creative, and
resource-efficient, that could influence income generation of small farmers that
adopted entrepreneurial skills and innovation into their farming operations. This
study examines entrepreneurship process strategies employed to income increase
by small farmers, evidence from southwest of Nigeria. The sampling procedures
entail three stages of samples selection of 240 farmers but only 200 data was useful.
Descriptive statistical and inferential statistics were used to analyze and describe the
data. Respondents’ age ranges from 16 to 65 years old, mean age was 36.16 years.
The study found out that 5 % of the samples had modest communication skills that
aid adoption of effective entrepreneurial processes and about 83% have a strong
belief in one’s self to succeed. Successful farmers had multiple sources of related
income generation business ventures. Targeting the entrepreneurs for support could
make them even more effective.