The country is in need of an ‘agricultural machinery revolution’ to tide over the present farm labour crisis and to improve efficiency of farm operations, K. Ramasamy, Vice-Chancellor, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University said. Stressing the need for a farm machinery revolution at the two-day ‘Calorie 2012’ and All India Seminar on Engineering Interventions for Profitable Agriculture, organised jointly by the Institution of Engineers and the Farm Varsity, the Vice-Chancellor said ‘the success story of Intensive Agriculture Development Programme of the 60s need to be repeated now with emphasis on farm mechanisation’.
The varsity has proposed to target those students who have failed in class X, for training and repairing of agricultural machinery, so as to enable them start machinery rental and repair services in rural areas.
“A two-year training should help retain the youth in villages itself.”
Keywords: agricultural machinery revolution, farm mechanisation,
Comments:
yes, Agricultural universities,Engineering colleges,FMCG and Auto manufacturers
should join forces along with banks anad R&D units to evolve a integrated
system to tap and tarin the youth at Grassroots village levels with intense hand
son training with Workshops and machinery renting -leasing facilities to start a
Industrial revolution in farming and agriculture sector- even go for robotics
operations.
This is a combined effort for the nation by the professionals.
Agricultural colleges -universities should be given the portfolio to undertake
scientific management of the areas under cultivation area wise.
so that the students get hand s on training while learning and teaching the
farmers.
Like TELEMEDICATION .
we should also introduce TELE -FARMING ADVISE BY TEH AGRICULTURAL
EXPERTS- professionals to the farming community.
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