Numerous nations hail the agriculture sector as a critical source of wealth creation, and past researches have shown the importance of entrepreneurship in the agriculture industry. However, there is a substantial difference in men and women's rates of taking entrepreneurial initiatives. Prior research has overlooked the significance of entrepreneurial inclination in creating agricultural start-ups from the perspective of gender. The primary objective of this study is to investigate the factors that influence women entrepreneurs working in the business endeavours of the agriculture sector. Using logistic regression, the study looked at a representative interview of 581 samples with individuals (18–65 years of age) from GEM countries. This model demonstrates the connection between the variables' qualities reliant on the data and the determinants. The chapter suggests that policymakers consider the consequences of promoting women's entrepreneurship in the agricultural industry and evolve the policies accordingly.
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Several countries expect agriculture to be a significant revenue-producing source (Schmidhuber & Tubiello, 2007; Dubé, Pingali, & Webb, 2012). Consequently, experts are focusing on the agriculture industry since it can aid in producing jobs and economic prosperity (Arafat, Ali, Dwivedi, & Saleem, 2020a).Furthermore, scholars have acknowledged the importance of entrepreneurship's role in fostering innovation, competitiveness, expansion, and development (Acs, Braunerhjelm, Audretsch, & Carlsson, 2009; Arafat, Khan, Saleem, Khan, & Khan, 2020b;Khan, Arafat, Raushan, & Saleem, 2020; Hassan, Saleem, Anwar, & Hussain, 2020).The research earlier (Yaseen, Saleem, Zahra, & Israr, 2018; Pindado & Sánchez, 2017) has proven the importance of entrepreneurship in agriculture. (Lans, Seuneke, & Klerkx 2017; Grande 2011;.; Lans, Blok, & Wesselink, 2014; Barnes, Hansson, Manevska-Tasevska, Shrestha & Thomson, 2015). Despite the variations between the various activities of entrepreneurship drivers, these researchers looked at entrepreneurship in the agriculture business. A recent study found significant disparities in women's entrepreneurship rates compared to males (Arafat, Saleem, & Dwivedi, 2020c; Arafat, Saleem, Dwivedi, & Khan, 2020d), but it failed to give a clear perspective, especially in terms of gender (Kelley, Singer, & Herrington, 2015) regardless of whether previous research has found that the drivers of entrepreneurship are identical for men and women and that variations in the rate of entrepreneurship may be accounted for other entrepreneurial characteristics (Langowitz, & Minniti, 2007; Brush, 1990, 1992). Entrepreneurial intentions (EI) are recognised as prospective variables among other attributes of entrepreneurship (Arafat et al., 2017b; Khan, Arafat, Raushan, Khan, Dwivedi, Khan, & Saleem, 2019b; Hassan, Anwar, Saleem, Islam, & Hussain, 2021), making it even more critical for agricultural entrepreneurship research business based on gender (Kelley et al., 2015; Langowitz, & Minniti, 2007; Pindado & Sánchez, 2017).
The primary purpose of this research is to look at the factors of EI for women in the agriculture business to see what obstacles they face, (Ramos-Rodrguez, Medina-Garrido, & Ruiz-Navarro, 2012; Pindado & Sánchez, 2017; Arafat & Saleem, 2017b) attempted to assume sectoral entrepreneurship since sector-specific studies better understand the venture formation process. In addition, the study looks at entrepreneurship in the agriculture business from a gender viewpoint. The factors of entrepreneurial ambitions were chosen based on the findings of earlier research, which is focused on agriculture and other industries. The findings of this study describe the factors that influence agricultural entrepreneurship, with a focus on women. These findings might help explain the entrepreneurial phenomena and formulate strategies to encourage women to start businesses in the agriculture industry.