The role schools and universities can play in promoting agricultural careers to youth:
Due to urbanisation and market based food procurement many young bouys and girls are not at all even aware where food is produced. But they feel they get food form supermarkets.
One initiative can be taken by school, college and universities are the give an opportunity to young people boys and girls to get exposed to agricultural activities and experience the joy of involving themselves. It is possible by:
1. Promotiom of agri-tourism: Under this government should support and minimal leaving facility including food and security at farm level/ are at the farmers home itself so that city boy and girls also go and stay for 15-10 days minimum and get themselves infolves in filed operations such as during sowing/ transplanting or during harvesting of produce such as fruits vegetables.
2. Some activity like one which is very popular in Japan is allowing people to visit fruit farmes and harvest produce. In this arrangement the family visits to rural areas / countyside and reach at farm like grape or apple and farmer charges 1000 yen or 2000 yen for harvest full of one small bag. Bag is provided by the farm. Now the boy and girls including full family engage theselves in harvesting and get the joy of testing ripe fruits at farm level.
Similarily in India sugar cane juice based mela (fair) is organised at a farm and people come have diffrent foods and snacks made by using sugar cane juice against a certain amount. To get such a joy people drive for 10-20km to reach the spot whcih is also well advertised in newspapers.
Hence such a programme can be initiated and promoted by involving farming communities.
The role schools and universities can play in promoting agricultural careers to youth:
Due to urbanisation and market based food procurement many young bouys and girls are not at all even aware where food is produced. But they feel they get food form supermarkets.
One initiative can be taken by school, college and universities are the give an opportunity to young people boys and girls to get exposed to agricultural activities and experience the joy of involving themselves. It is possible by:
1. Promotiom of agri-tourism: Under this government should support and minimal leaving facility including food and security at farm level/ are at the farmers home itself so that city boy and girls also go and stay for 15-10 days minimum and get themselves infolves in filed operations such as during sowing/ transplanting or during harvesting of produce such as fruits vegetables.
2. Some activity like one which is very popular in Japan is allowing people to visit fruit farmes and harvest produce. In this arrangement the family visits to rural areas / countyside and reach at farm like grape or apple and farmer charges 1000 yen or 2000 yen for harvest full of one small bag. Bag is provided by the farm. Now the boy and girls including full family engage theselves in harvesting and get the joy of testing ripe fruits at farm level.
Similarily in India sugar cane juice based mela (fair) is organised at a farm and people come have diffrent foods and snacks made by using sugar cane juice against a certain amount. To get such a joy people drive for 10-20km to reach the spot whcih is also well advertised in newspapers.
Hence such a programme can be initiated and promoted by involving farming communities.