Employment Potential for Agricultural and Allied Graduate as Self Employers

Employment Opportunities for Agricultural Graduates

G.M. Wani

Ph.D D.V.M (Germany)

FN ISSGAPU, FN DAAD

Director Extension Education / SAMETI

Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir

Shalimar, Srinagar, 191121

Introduction

          In the past handful of years the growth of Agricultural Universities have improved from couple of in  1940 to much more than 40 by 2004. The enrolled students number increased from mere half a thousand to nearly 20 thousands in between this period. As on nowadays we have 260 colleges in India imparting educational degrees in Agriculture alone. They consist of many different disciplines such as veterinary, horticulture, sericulture, forestry, floriculture and a quantity of other sub-disciplines as plantation crops, medicinal herbs, mushroom, seed production, dairy production, agri-management and like. A number of Government department in India employ agricultural and allied graduates. The mode of recruitment is by way of respective State & Central Govt. public service commissions.

Beside qualified employment, the agricultural graduates can compete in the national or State administrative or economic and allied services. Similarly lots of banks, insurance coverage corporations, private industries, private concerns and development organisations. The NGO do also employ agricultural and allied graduates. The graduates have to go by means of employment new and other skilled Journals by means of Radio, Tv and each central and State Govts. also give advertisements. A vast quantity of skilled, managerial and sector related advanced courses following agri or allied graduation are also advertised. They comprise of business management, financial management or associated disciplines in corporate sector. A diploma in mass media, computers or even commerce shall fetch a graduate extra employment odds in Govt. and private sectors. Possibilities in foreign nations for agri-graduates are also there, then again this would will need diploma  in international agriculture and a driving licence besides a passport.

For graduates a number of courses are offered for Masters. Even on date we have 1/3rd positions vacant in SAU and ICAR Institutes, for which annually ARS examination is being held by Agriculture Scientists Recruitment Board. The recruitment to scientists and Assistant professors is open to all M.Sc /M.V.Sc or allied post graduates and Ph.D holders. Ministry of Agriculture in collaboration with NABARD and other banks have launched Agri-business enterprise Agri clinic courses. They are three months courses on the  job coaching  to Agri-graduates no cost of price. In fact all the expenditures are borne by the Agri-business school. A network of such instruction schools have been established. We have also a dozen in J&K. There is a strong future for agri-graduates in private sector. They can set up crop, fruit nurseries or open seed sale and production centres. We have a number of effective agri-graduates earning way more than Rs. 20,000/- a month in many different parts of the valley. The entire agricultural and allied sector has a robust employment generation possible. We have identified 15 such agri home business ventures, which can be lucrative employment ventures. A fantastic possible of employment is hidden in Nursery plants for fruits and vegetables. An investment of Rs. 30,000/- per year could possibly give a net profit of Rs. 2 lakh per annum.

Australia also supplies numerous jobs like in Europe and USA for Indian Agri-graduates. The respective embassies or the internet employment advertise a number of support Agri graduates. For Australia information and facts can be had on . Uniemb.ed.am/. Extra personal details can be had on telephone 0427355721 or e-mail .  Likewise lots of web sites are offered around the globe and in India too. New ventures financed by banks are Agri.biotechnologies and precision farming  for natural Agriculture.

Agricultural development more than years has been the result of continuous agri skill generation and its popularization. The earliest agriculture was animal domestication. Over thousands of years man domesticated wild fowl, dog, goat and smaller animals, whom he could overpower easily and subjugate to his sub-ordination. Agriculture therefore due to the fact starting has been the outcomes of trails, experiments and experiences more than years, learned first though behavioral alterations, psychic reoccurrences, memories passed via parents to young children and later on by way of performing and mastering and now through sharing experiences and writing them or dotting them as an Entrepreneurship concern.

Entrepreneurship concept 

          The Entrepreneurship adds economic earnings and price-benefit ratios to Agricultural Output. Entrepreneurship is dominated by four aspects like:

a.                  Social modifications

b.                 Assistance method availability

c.                  Resource base and its utilization

d.                  Self confidence, exploration operate capacity and intellectual potency.

An entrepreneur has to have a thinking of his personal, a capacity creating interest in acquiring required technique. An explorative and analytic faculties to judge the way of procuring inexpensive raw material. He should be equipped with "understanding" and mindset to use and benefit out of it.

Farm Home business

       A prospective entrepreneurship should strive from acquiring maximum output. Decades back agricultural development and industrial setups was a public sponsored and heavily subsidized but more than time "information" explosion in Indian Agriculture, have brought us on threshold of a  technique, exactly where wide distances exist in between market and farm business enterprise. Exactly where massive subsidies are benefiting Agro-Industrialists. The Farmers who use fertilizers or agro-chemical are crushed below economic pressures. The gaps in between technologies generated and technologies use at farmers door is escalating day just after day. The farm technologies adoption rates are not additional than 20-30% by any higher prospective.

The use of facts and communication technologies (I&CT) for lowering the gaps and rising productivity is the require of the hour (Wani, 2005). The modern technology and know-how flow is rapid expanding and bringing modify. It demands alot more educated and trained farmers. Our education technique has produced much more literates but not educationally trained youth to earn their own bread. They following attaining graduation in agriculture and allied sectors, beg for job. The system has to be corrected to make these graduates as employers and not personnel. I wrote a treatise in 1992, emphasizing a technique where our agriculture graduates will need to be employers not staff. Germans are wise to have Farmers school, Farmer business coaching institutes, practical agri-farmers training centres and like, exactly where every single farmer or animal husbandry man is basically a trained fellow. The banking method is so organized that they are on the door of convocation hall to sell their agri-organization and agri-clinics packages to graduates, without any investments. Banks are so intelligent, that they have surveyed the villages who will need vets or agri-graduates or have attained land and all facilitation, so that agricultural or veterinary or even other medico-biological graduates are applied as bank investment. This is what is envisaged in India beneath agri-clinic, Agribusiness venture. We have trainings not in the hands of banks but with universities. There is practically little interaction in between universities or banks or employers.

Good results of Agribusiness:

A poor liaison and assistance system among Govt. banking and University culture has created this otherwise an remunerative and lucerative programmes into a failure inspite of its personal monitoring by PMO. We visited Bandipora district and unregistered Agriclinic graduates were earning a handsome salary, alot more than the Rahbar-e-zerat or Agriculture Asstt. Agribusiness viz sale of pesticides, cattle feed, poultry feed and agri-extension services were widespread. At a tiny village in Papchan, one agri graduate Mr. Iqbal Shah earns Rs. ten,000/- per month by selling the services and input. At a distance of handful of kms in the identical district 1      Mr. Khyatlani owns a large poultry farm and earns about Rs. 20,000/- per month. Each these entrepreneurs employ 2-3 persons at present. Similarly, the success shown by 1 Mr. Shah at Malangam in Agri items and pesticide sale and one Mr. Bhat in Dairy production and milk product sale earn a handsome income besides producing employment for poor. All these agricultural graduates have started their own organization concerns without any bank or university aid.

Farmer as Entrepreneur

Indian Farming and farmer has to alter if appropriate WTO recommendation and GATT agreements are to be followed. The present day poultry scenario is emerging as high profile agri-business enterprise in India. The conversion of poultry farmer's into poultry entrepreneurs shall make the present day 6% contribution of poultry solutions from India and China to 25% share of International industry. This when translated into action shall enhance employment generation by manifolds. The introduction of rural based Vanraja, Gramapriya, Giriraja, Cari Gold and vast other locally grown varieties of poultry have adopted nicely to our agri-rural base. The industry acceptability is higher than exotic poultry concerns. Free of charge-rang-poultry is like BT cotton hybrid spreading by means of villages of India and assuring high returns and exports (wani, 2007).

Poultry as Agri-small business

Dr. Gordon Butland, president of International poultry strategies presents "Backyard poultry production" as a tool of alleviating poverty and malnutrition. We have tried to distribute "birds" below absolutely free-range system in all our KVK's, our outcomes had been great and earnings generation was entirely in favour of the Agri-small business and agri-clinics.