Solutions for encouraging entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship via cooperatives

Study process of improvement in developed countries showed that entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship have important role in this process. To achieve development and employment objectives in our country, considering entrepreneurship and support of entrepreneurs is essential too. The purposes of this research were recognition of agricultural entrepreneurs and study their Characteristics and effective factors in their success in Zanjan province. PRA and descriptive–correlation survey approach were used in this study. The study population consists of agricultural entrepreneurs in Zanjan (N=94). Questionnaire was developed to collect the necessary data. Content and face validity of instrument were established by investigating the attitudes experts and agricultural extension and education specialists in Zanjan University. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data using SPSS Win14. Based on the results, the main effective factors in success of agricultural entrepreneurs were: Self confidence, Creativity and innovation, ability to competitive, positive thinking and recognition of opportunities. The results showed that knowledge of respondents regard cooperation laws is low and very low. Based on results of the study, the most important solutions for encouraging entrepreneurship in agriculture are prevention of offense and rant and participation of entrepreneurs in economic processes.