Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 22: To aware agriculture students about future prospects of agriculture, a webinar on ‘Career Opportunities in Agricultural Sciences’ was organized by Department of Agriculture, Aryans Group of Colleges, Rajpura near Chandigarh.
Sneha Bhardwaj, Seed Technology Expert addressed the students of B.Sc Hons and Diploma Agriculture.
Dr. Anshu Kataria, Chairman, Aryans Group presided over the webinar.
While interacting with the students, Sneha said that agriculture is an academic discipline that involves the study of various scientific, technical and business subjects related to agriculture, horticulture, farm management, poultry farming, dairy farming, agricultural biotechnology etc.
“The scope of a career in agriculture has grown tremendously in recent times with cutting-edge research and continuous innovation in the industry,” she maintained.
She also said that Indian economy is heavily dependent on agriculture and the demand for professionally trained workforce is strident.
Sneha said that days of thinking agriculture as toiling in the hot sun with returns at subsistence level are over as technology and scientific inputs have made the process less dependent on manual labour.
Answering students’ queries she said that scope is endless as agriculture industry is still in a maturing phase and new technological advancements will open new vistas for the youth to build careers.
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