The study was conducted in Vijayapura district of Karnataka to analyse the entrepreneurial behaviour of fruit crop growers. Forty each grape, lime and pomegranate growers were selected by use of simple random sampling technique. Thus, making a total sample size of 120. The findings revealed that more than two fifth (42.50 %) of the fruit crop growers belonged to middle age group, one fourth of them had middle school education, nearly half (48.33 %) were practicing crop production as main occupation, more than two fifth (43.33 %) of them were found to have medium sized family, more than one third (37.50 %) of them had medium experience in fruit crop cultivation, nearly half (49.17 %) of the fruit crop growers were small farmers, 35.00 per cent of them were found under medium income category. More than two fifth (43.33 %) of them were found to have medium level of social participation, 40.83 per cent of them had medium level of mass media exposure, extension participation and deferred gratification, 45.00 per cent of them had medium level of value orientation, two fifth (40.00 %) had medium level of self-reliance and more than one third (35.00 %) of them belonged to medium level of cosmopoliteness. The findings revealed that more than one third (37.50 %) of fruit crop growers fell under medium category followed by high (33.33 %) and low (29.17 %) entrepreneurial behaviour categories, respectively. Variables such as education, occupation, land holding, annual income, experience in fruit crop cultivation, self-reliance, cosmopoliteness, deferred gratification, extension participation and mass media participation were found to have significant association with the entrepreneurial behaviour of fruit crop growers.