Entrepreneurial opportunities in Livestock production in Kermanshah province

Recognizing opportunities is an essential component in entrepreneurship and its process. In many definitions of entrepreneurship, it is significantly focused on opportunity recognition as an important step in entrepreneurship development. Also ability to find opportunities is one of the entrepreneur’s characteristics that entrepreneurship process may not be possible without that. Accordingly, much of entrepreneurship studies and literature devoted to this topic and opportunity recognition has become one of the threads engaging in entrepreneurship research. Agriculture and its sub sectors like livestock production is one of the economic sector that entrepreneurs paid less attention to it, during last decades, because of urban growth based on industrial production. On this basis and because of the long history of farming activities in the country, this research focused on entrepreneurship opportunities related to livestock production and services based on the capacities in Kermanshah province. Based on the survey findings through qualitative methodologies with 36 participants, Entrepreneurial opportunities in livestock sub sectors were classified into 18 categories like Fattening cattle, dairy cattle breeding, animal feed production, livestock production, organic livestock production, leather goods, silk worm breeding, production and sales of livestock and poultry, production of honey products. After that, based on participants’ point of view, best business opportunities in each category were found by considering capital, demand and market trends.