Journal of Entrepreneurial Strategies in Agriculture

Nowadays, entrepreneurship of graduates has an important role in resolving the problem of unemployment and stimulating the economic development of the nations. Having the entrepreneurship capabilities and skills by graduates can resolve the problem of unemployment and help to development of agricultural sector. Hence, the present study analyzes the strategies of increasing the entrepreneurship of agricultural and natural resources graduates using survey method and strategic model of SWOT. Therefore, the views of 90 experts were used in three groups including experts of Agriculture Jihad Expert of Agricultural Engineering Organization and members of scientific boards and graduates of Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University. According to the results of this study, 10 strengths and 7 weaknesses in the internal environment and 10 opportunities and 14 threats in the external environment were identified. Also, the results showed that the graduate entrepreneurship has the relative strengths in the internal environment and the relative threat in the external environment. Therefore, based on the present capabilities and capacities, performing the conservative strategies has priority. Then, some strategies for development of agricultural graduate entrepreneurship were offered.