The Hindu Business Line : `New job market opening up for agri graduates'

Coimbatore March 25 With commodities market poised to grow and investment towards agriculture sector bound to expand, agriculture students will have good career prospects. Career opportunity would be plenty but one has to be clear about his/her career goal, according to Mr Ravi Chandran, Chief General Manager (surveillance in capital markets), Securities and Exchange Board of India, Mumbai.

Addressing a workshop on career guidance and job fair 2007, held at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) here, the SEBI official, called upon the students to look beyond the traditional job forts.

`BROADEN HORIZON'

Mr Chandran, an alumni of the TNAU, asked students to be wary of getting confined to conventional vocations that offer temporary comforts and the security of geographical or language limitations. "After all one needs to have robust, basic common sense and the fire of confidence burning within," he added.

Spelling out the areas of opportunities the agriculture students could look forward to, he said the buoyancy of the capital markets give opportunity for experts in valuation and analytical jobs. Agri technology companies have begun to make a mark, he pointed out.

Patent and Copy Rights regulations under the emerging WTO region also present newer opportunities for agri graduates. The opening of the agriculture clinics has brought about opportunities for the farm graduates to experiment their knowledge and entrepreneurial skills, stated Mr Chandran.

Growing market

The commodities market with a valuation of some Rs 30,000 crore is poised to grow further. "Who will be better placed in bringing out analytical perception on these markets other than the agricultural graduates," Mr Chandran asked.

The evolving career opportunities would test the worthiness of the candidates in terms of how relevant one would be rather than the pure knowledge he or she had, he noted.

The agricultural students studying from different campuses of the university, including Madurai, Trichy, Killikulam, Mettupalayam and Periyakulam are attending the workshop/job fair.

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