An Investigation Into The Factors Inhibiting Entrepreneurial Behaviour Among The Subsistence Maize Farmers: . A Case Of Siaya District

ABSTRACT 80% of the Kenyan Population live in the rural areas and are involved in agriculture on a subsistence basis. This represents a lack of enterprise culture that accounts for the poverty in the rural areas. In order to eradicate poverty in the rural areas the subsistence farmers need be made to adopt an enterprise culture by practicing their main economic activity as a business enterprise. GOK,(2005) To attain this the factors that account for the lack of entrepreneurial behaviour among the farmers must be identified and alleviated. The Government and other stakeholders have carried out…