Agriculture Education in India: Institutes and Organizations

Abstract

From Foreword: It is now recognised widely that agriculture affords unlimited opportunities for improvement through well-trained men and women and that it is only by lifting agriculture to a highly technical business involving scientific knowledge and management ability that the country can hope to develop an economy so buoyant as to stimulate all aspects of national progress, and so necessary for securing human welfare and social justice. Our success will depend on our ability to attract the talented youth to agriculture, the resourcefulness with which we train them, and the zeal, vision and dedication that we instil in them. For in the ultimate analysis, it is the planning of our agricultural training programmes today that will determine the quality of all work and progress in agricultural sector to-morrow. Without this basic strength and quality in agricultural education programmes, the very spring-board for progressive improvement in any of the branches of agricultural production—research, extension, vocational skill and administrative understanding—real advancement will be impossible. The greatest challenge we face today, therefore, lies in the sphere of agricultural education.