Determination of entrepreneurship level in agricultural enterprises

Using labor, capital, and land in production to meet human needs, the existence of entrepreneurs who realize the organization of these factors of production and take the possible risks is extremely important for the sustainability of production. Therefore, entrepreneurship levels of agricultural enterprises were determined within the scope of the study. As the research region, Konya district of Ere？li province was chosen as the most intensively used agricultural production areas, and a survey was conducted with 98 agricultural enterprises which were determined according to stratified random sampling method in the region and entrepreneurship levels of enterprises were determined. In the determination of entrepreneurship levels, the characteristics that should be in the entrepreneur are divided into five components under the name of professionalism, management, opportunism, strategic behavior, and cooperation. Each component was classified within itself and variables were determined. The determined variables were scaled according to the obtained data. Scores were determined by taking the average of variables for each feature and class. Moreover, the average of all variables was determined and the entrepreneurship coefficient was determined. This value is determined as 3.75 according to the average of enterprises. As a result of this determined value, the model was suggested to be used to reveal the existing entrepreneurship skills