Analysis of Barriers to Entrepreneurship in Agricultural Small and Medium Enterprises in Qazvin Province

Promoting the country's agriculture is an important part of the workforce as a key factor in the agricultural sector and is looking for suitable opportunities and ideas to create businesses and promote entrepreneurial businesses in the agricultural sector. The path to economic development can be enriched by boosting entrepreneurship in small and Medium Entreorises. The purpose of this study was to analyze the barriers to entrepreneurship development in SMEs in the framework of descriptive-survey research. The statistical population of this study consisted of 4532 units of SMEs in Qazvin province in 2016. The sample size was 354 units of SMEs selected by random sampling. These industries were in the main groups of Food industry, Horticulture, Agricultural mechanization, livestock and Fisheries. Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated 0.88 to determine the reliability of the questionnaires. The content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by the opinion of experts in the field. After completing the questionnaires and collecting data, SPSS software was used for data analysis based on exploratory factor analysis technique. The results of factor analysis of development barriers in SMEs resulted in the extraction of seven barriers. In order of importance, these barriers include financial, scientific, educational, knowledge, strategic, policy, marketing-sales and environmental barriers that account for 72.265% of the total variance of barriers to entrepreneurship development in agricultural businesses.