Career with ICAR: Learning Opportunities
The Indian Council of Agriculture or ICAR an independent organization under the guidance of the department of Agriculture and Education governed by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Government of India since 1951 have played a pioneer role in the radical transformation of agricultural produce through research and development. This escorted the Green Revolution increased the production of food grains by 5 times, horticultural crop by 9.5 times, fish by 12.5 times, milk by 7.5 times and egg 39 times in the present days. The improvement of agricultural educational standards endowing with the technically qualified human resource is one of the main factors of this huge positive shift of the entire scenario.
Unemployment is a major concern
But modern times have witnessed a rather negative blow with rising unemployment typically among the agricultural graduates. But why so? The job market suggests that there is a shift from the public sector units to the private industrial agriculture in the production, processing and also adding value to each and every process and also in regards of the service sector. The need of the day is to recruit agricultural graduates who do possess knowledge and skills in industrial agriculture to get absorbed in the fast expanding agro-industry. Furthermore, these graduates must be taught in new subject areas and most important to get an exposure to practical learning in real life situations of a field or factory or engineering workshop.
Syllabus woes
The predominating syllabus of agricultural training produces graduates looking for professional occupations in government divisions. Their ability and skills don’t fill the prerequisites of becoming private sector organizations. The instruction produces degree holders, but without any practical knowledge how to analyze and tackle real field problems to provide solution to the management.
ICAR provides with that practical learning opportunity
ICAR does support a plan on experiential learning which includes setting up of instructional farms for the production in crop science, animal husbandry and fisheries and also model plants for nourishment transforming and worth expansion for item enhancement and building workshops for assembling, operation and upkeep of farm machinery and gears. The real purpose of the plan is to barrier understudy contribution in learning in the life size environment of experimental farms and also model plants and designing workshops.
It is mandatory for the any undergraduate students take practical training classes in any of the two areas of employable crafts. The bottom line is that the learning by experience and also through learning for the professional development. Each area of experiential learning further strengths up the knowledge by means to infuse the inputs to sale what is being produced.
The training is further supplemented by placement opportunities of the students in private or public sector farms or engineering workshop or factories for a period of two to three months to apply the skills learned in field practice. The training program does also involve subject matter lectures in the field of technology, communications skills and business management. Lectures to be also bestowed providing an idea to the students about government policies and the standards to be maintained, the rural development programs and all the credit institutions functioning in the market.
The training does mix and reinforce calculated learning with inventively praiseworthy practices for field applications. In totality, each ones training is seen to fabricate pragmatic aptitudes and business administration information in the entire span of activities involving the agricultural industry.
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