This study was conducted by following ex-post facto research design and random sampling technique in Sultanpur district of Uttar Pradesh with specific objective to study the entrepreneurial behavior of rural women. A sample of 200 women respondents comprising of 91 SC, 54 OBC and 55 General Category were selected by using stratified random sampling technique and selection of the respondents in each category was proportionate to their size in population. The results of the study revealed that maximum respondents in General caste were found in low level of farm decision making.Majority of all category of respondents (74.50%) were found medium category of achievement motivation level and in 22 per cent case achievement motivation level is low. However only in 3.50 per cent cases high achievement motivation level were recorded. The 75 per cent respondents were observed in medium category of entrepreneurial behaviour followed by low (15.50 %) and high (9.50 %) category of entrepreneurial behaviour, respectively. The study also shows that socio-economic attributes like age, caste, education, family size, sociopolitical participation, ability to coordinate farming activities, sources of information utilized, value orientation, annual family income, farm activities performed by women and decision making pattern having close association with entrepreneurial behaviour of women in study area. The regression analysis indicates that the socio-political participation, sources of information utilized, ability to coordinate farming activities and farm activities performed by women, annual income, value orientation were significantly influenced entrepreneurial behaviour of the respondent. Hence it is concluded that the extension agencies should aimed to manipulate these socio economic parameters in order to promote entrepreneurial behaviour of rural women

Keyword: Entrepreneurial behavior;