Rope youth into farm sector: Swaminathan

 
Agricultural scientist M.S.Swaminathan on Thursday gave a call for attracting youth to the farm sector by identifying promising children and nurturing their talents. For their, farm schools, and farm and industrial training centers might be set up, he said in a power point presentation on 'sustainable agricultural development in India' at the 94th Indian Science Congress at Annamalai University here.

Universities could think of starting short-term farm-related courses in subjects such as commodity exchanges and futures, and conservation farming. These programmes would benefit over a million women living in villages. The path to the second green revolution would be through raising oil seeds and pulses for which he advocated creation of "pulses villages" and facilitating self-help groups to produce seeds. 

(The Hindu, 5th January 2007)