EDUCATION: FUTURE OF AGRICULTURE

 

As it is very well quoted by Mahatma Gandhiji, “INDIA LIVES IN VILLAGES.” But are these villages developing or do the villages have any kind of proper facility? For all these past years we have seen that rural areas don’t have proper access to any facility may it be education or any type of advanced technology. Providing them with sufficient resources will help the villages prosper and thus the GDP of the country might boost.

Now-a-days all the agriculture practices are becoming knowledge based, it is very vital for the farmers to get accustomed with the upcoming trends and skills in agriculture. With globalisation and advancement of technology farmers should be trained so that they can get acquainted and can easily compete with others. The need of the hour is to give agriculture education more importance and make the farmers aware about all the benefits they can receive after practicing the modern techniques of farming rather than relying only on the traditional farming.

Education is the most integral part which leads to development. Being a country with highest population of youth, India should emphasise more on providing better and practical education. We have seen students who pursue agricultural degrees for graduation don’t practice farming rather end up giving civil services exams. This happens because they know that the income they might generate from a government job will be more than the income they might generate from farming.

Agriculture in India has not been that profitable to the farmers due to lack of awareness of various modern techniques & subsidies they can avail. The size of land holdings in India is very small i.e. one and half ha. Having small fields make it difficult for them to work with the huge modern machinery. Developing efficient irrigation facilities for the farms requires a lot of capital. In many parts of India we can still find seasonal unemployment while during the peak season i.e. harvesting and sowing of the crops there is acute shortage of labour.

If we keep on looking we can see that there are problems everywhere, but what we can do is finding some effective solutions to overcome them. The government has already provided the farmers with various schemes and subsidies to some of the problems which are as follows:

1.      Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sinchai Yojana – to avail proper irrigation facilities.

2.      Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana

3.      Paramparagat Kisan Vikas Yojana.

4.      Kisan Credit Card.

5.      National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture.

Agriculture being the major stake holder in the GDP of the country should be enhanced and more facilities should be given to the farmers, where almost 52% rural people depend on agriculture for their employment. Initiatives should be taken by the youth so that they can make the farmers aware regarding the modern methods pf farming and its benefits. Also the govt. has to improve the infrastructure and R&D in the agricultural sector.

AUTHORS:

MS. RUCHA ANDHARE

MS. DIASHA MUNIAN

MR. RUSHIKESH. SANAP

Research Scholar’s, 

M.Sc. Economics

Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT-WPU

 

Co-Author:

Prof. Gaurav Petkar

Professor, School of Economics

Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT-WPU


Comments

  1. Mahema AJanuary 24, 2022 at 12:06 AM

    This topic needed to be covered. Need of the hour. Splendid effort.

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  2. UnknownJanuary 24, 2022 at 1:12 AM

    Well defined perspective of society.

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  3. UnknownJanuary 24, 2022 at 6:02 AM

    Very nice article 👊

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  4. UnknownJanuary 24, 2022 at 8:24 PM

    The only way to get the rural economy going... Splendid work team!
    Kudos to the efforts
    RUCHA
    DIASHA
    RUSHIKESH

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