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Need of Agricultural Education
• Agricultural Productivity: Effective agricultural education (both for farmers as well as researchers) leads to better economic and technical decision making in agricultural processes, which is further reflected in increase in agricultural productivity (World Bank). • Value Chain of Agriculture: The entire value chain of agriculture i.e. from farm input to market linkages, suffers from various bottlenecks which can well be addressed by agricultural education. • Employment: Agricultural education is needed in order to absorb the emerging labour force, especially with the emerging arenas of biotechnology, GM food, precision agriculture etc. which require detailed knowledge. • Labour value: Market value of individual in agricultural field in India is lower than many developing countries and agricultural education adds to an individual’s productivity and therefore increases the market value of his labour.
Challenges face by Agricultural Education
• Finance- Agriculture is a state subject and the statutory responsibility for it vests with the state governments which lack in funds. Moreover, the establishment cost of agricultural universities has risen substantially while the operational budget has reduced which constrains institution for innovation. • Faculty- State Agricultural Universities (SAUs) are facing non-replacement of retired faculty and high inbreeding of faculty (nearly 51% of faculty members have their degrees from the same university in which they are teaching), which hampers the quality of academic and research programmes. • Lack of Networking and quality- It has been noticed that most of the universities are lacking in association and integration with different national and international universities for academic activities. • Low quality- The quality provided in these universities is low which further affects their global ranking. • Not a first option- Negative attitude towards agricultural education due to low returns and limited career opportunities makes agricultural education not a preferred choice amongst students.
Way Forward
• Public Private Partnership (PPP)- Government should harness the PPP modal with agricultural universities especially in agribusiness, biotechnology, nanotechnology and many frontier areas, where public sector institutions are weak and not responding to the changing demand.• Revisit Curriculum- Ashok Dalwai Commmitee on Doubling the farmer Income, highlighted that there is a need to revisit the current agriculture education curriculum to orient it to promote agriculture as a sustainable practise and profit generating enterprise. • Global Standard practices- Agricultural education is needed to be harmonized with existing and emerging issues related to WTO, ethics of IPR, standard trade practices. • Regional Specific Education- The criteria for new universities should be agro-ecoregion rather than one discipline, as agriculture-related issues are multidisciplinary. • Regulatory authority i.e. ICAR does not have statutory powers or the mandate to regulate agricultural education. Thus, it is important to create a central statutory authority for the regulation of higher agricultural education to make the agriculture sector science and technology (S&T) based. • Vocational Agricultural Education- Universities are concentrating mainly on formal education while there is also need for Vocational and non-formal education especially in respect of knowledge and technological empowerment for work force in rural areas.
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