Agriculture Education and Job Perspectives: How Agriculture & allied education can be made Aspirational for better Job Perspectives

Ongoing education of farmers is very important for them to remain conscious for fast-moving developments in technology, science, business management, and an array of other skills and fields that affect agricultural operations. Better education of farmers is the key to success for them. Education increases one’s ability to understand and even more important it increases one’s capacity to find out. Because the farmer becomes better educated, the results of more schooling or more experiences, new ideas from outside hit them more often and that they are more likely to know, appreciate and adopt them.

So here I’m Tapsendra Patel and this article we will discuss about agriculture education and job prospective: How Agriculture & allied education can be made aspirational for better job perspectives.

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Abstract

Education is the training of life this is said by Aristotle. The person who is educated, things the advantages and disadvantages of his/her actions and select a balanced approach. In case of agriculture in India the farmer who is not aware of their surroundings can't adopt the new innovation and techniques which are developed by researchers of agriculture and without farmers education researchers and agriculture graduates also can't anchorage farmers for quick adoption of techniques and technologies.

Introduction

Education enables the farmer to read simple instructions given to him within the sort of an extension bulletin, which they're going to subscribe, read and study the farm magazines, they're going to imbibe ideas better from the radio talks given for the advantage of the farmers, they will read important information in time and can attend the local extension meetings and because the occasion arises can invite the extension agents.

As their level of education increases, they're going to become more and more self-reliant, and can depend more on their self-studies of the literatures handling farming and fewer on personal help from the extension personnel’s.

They also do experiments on their farms and acts as active promoters in agricultural improvements. They can prepare and hold right report to the research stations and can appraise the researchers with their farming problems.

The adult farmers should be informally educated and therefore the rural youths by conventional techniques. By increasing the capacity of the agricultural youths to find out and assimilate new ideas the magnitude of the extension efforts required within the next generation are often greatly reduced.

The general education of rural youth generally enables the excess population from country to migrate to town and find jobs consistent with their qualification and skill.

It is, therefore, the responsibility of both the govt and personal organizations and individuals to open schools in country for educating rural youth in subjects like humanity, arts, science, commerce and agriculture with moral education for creating better citizens. The panchayat should initiate such efforts and seek the cooperation of state and non-government organizations.

Literature Review

It has been observed that youth educated in agricultural sciences don't return to farming reception. In some agricultural institutions priority for admission was given to the ward of agriculturists but they didn't return to their home farm except some exceptions.

The reason is that after graduation students seek the in office neat and clean job discarding the dirty hand occupation which farming is. Another obvious reason is that in Indian agriculture there's disguised unemployment and therefore the farms are small which can not be able to absorb the graduate farmer. Another very valid reason is that after the primary degree in agriculture there's no internship training for the graduation youth.

There is little or no on farm training given to the scholars. Their theoretical knowledge of the topic keeps them unaware of the primary hand approach in farming—this may be a lacuna in our academic system, therefore, internship training is vital.

Methodology

There are 4 year degree courses as per recommendations of the 5^th Dean’s Committee of ICAR. And student are sand for The Rural Agricultural Work Experience (RAWE) or intensive training in their last two semesters that is they're 7th and 8th semester of UG graduation.

Discussion

The continuously emerging challenges in agriculture sector like:-

· Low productivity (approx to 60% of world average)
· Low profitability in farming
· Rising quality competitiveness under the pressure of globalization
· Biotic and abiotic stresses and inefficient use of agri-inputs
· Low knowledge of agri inputs
· Wide gap between lab and land experiments
· Low grade mechanization and value addition
· Supply Chain Management and merchandise Lifecycle Management
· Lack of qualified manpower to deal with the new and emerging challenges and deliver at grassroots level
· Improper approach to sustainable agriculture arising from depleting quality of natural resources
· Poor linkage of farms with their respective market
· Poorly coordinated (NDM) Natural Disaster Management system.

To properly overcome with these problems, competent human resource in sufficiently large numbers would be required within the near future, to understand this, a renewed system for higher agriculture education is required which will enhanced the support to the ICAR- AU system.

The Committee should restructure there course curricular and should have reoriented the system to develop needed skills and develop the entrepreneurial mindset among the graduates to require up self-employment, contribute to enhanced the livelihood of rural areas and food security, sustainability of agriculture and be propeller for agricultural transformation. The professional degree status should provide lot of advantages for college kids like to enhanced rate of fellowship from DBT and other such agencies.

According to me the model of internship training should be:

During the third year course students should be sent to other institutions, agro-industries, agriculture/livestock/plantation/commercial farms or factories like dairy, meat processing or horticultural product factories.

They can choose their place for fast training consistency with their option from the division of crop science, soil science, farming, dairying, horticultural sciences etc. This training should be planned after the 3^rd year of examination for a summer vacation and the 2^nd training should be done while the scholars are within the final year.

Results

The students should be exposed to actual village condition to face real challenges by assigning them farmers for the interaction with the farmers. The scholars should work with the farmers making the plan for the assembly for the three season’s viz., kharif, Rabi and zaid in accordance with the farm resources. Prepare the farm budget.

They should also introduce to plan for the credit (money management) and its utilization in proper manner. The scholar should advise the farmers on agronomy.

The student should help farmers in marketing for their produce. Additionally they bought to act as a liaison between the farmer and therefore the block officials, credit institution and market sanities. Again, the scholars must be assigned to different departments as per their choice and specialization. A senior teacher with the assistance of junior teachers must supervise the internship training of the scholars.

The students should submit three reports of their training period, one for the surface institution during the summer vacation, second the report while they worked with the farmers, and third while they're assigned to different departments within the college.

Grading system must be the criteria of reports analysis and they should be allotted A, B, C grades according to their work report. This training should be made compulsory and degree shall be awarded after the training has been satisfactorily completed with proper certification and documentation.

Conclusion

From the above discussion we can conclude that more or less the current agricultural education system and policy of India is not 100% successful to overcome the upcoming problems and challenges of agriculture. The scenario of job prospective and career options for the the students should be change and the vision of the agricultural graduate should be "Enhancement of modern agriculture" but not only of there socioeconomic status.

Reference

· Your article library , Essay by Aprova https://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/essay/agriculture-essay/essay-on-agricultural-education-in-india/89105

· Awareness Development Yojana - https://www.icar.org.in/files/StudentReadyBooklet_for%20web-1-25102016.pdf

· Agriculture Today Magazine (March 2021 Edition) - https://www.agriculturetoday.in/magazine/2021/magazine-mar-2021.pdf

Other important links - www.icar.in, www.jnkvv.org

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