AGRICULTURE

AGRICULTURE

Introduction

•         Agriculture is the backbone of Indian economy.

Working Conditions

•         Farming depends on weather conditions and hence could be both challenging and demanding.

Personality

•         Agriculturalists work in production, research, business and trade, in banking and finance, in journalism, etc. For each area of work, personal qualities need to match the job requirements.

Work Area

•         Horticulture (Cultivation)

Introduction

•         Concerned with application of engineering principles and practices to all areas related to agriculture. It is essentially a hybrid of engineering and agricultural sciences with major engineering characteristics.

•         Besides developing new design for equipments and machines used by the agriculture and food industry they coordinate with electronic/electrical engineers for perfecting the technology of the equipments.

•         They are required on irrigation projects, for planning agriculture based industries, projects, drainage systems, land reclamation projects, and for flood control and soil erosion projects.

Personality

•         Must have knowledge of physical science and engineering principles and enough mathematical background to work with these principles. A robust physique, love for mechanical work and a liking for outdoors is required.

•         Ability to work as a team.

•         Ability to sustain unpleasant work conditions, work in fields which sometimes may be dirty.

•         A good health & reasonable physical fitness for carrying out tasks related to business, industry and farming. 

•         Diplomacy, positive attitude, good vocabulary and ability to handle science.

Courses & Work Area

•         Apply principles of engineering to agricultural industries, food processing; Interact with agricultural scientists

•         B.Tech or M.Tech

•         Agricultural engineering. Duration: 4 – 5 years .
Eligibility: Pass in 12th under the 10+2 system or an equivalent exam with Physics, Chemistry, Maths and English.

•         BSc. – Agricultural Sciences. Duration : 4years
Eligibility : Pass in 12th under the 10+2 system or an equivalent exam with Physics, Chemistry, Biology and English or Agriculture Group.

Institutes

•         National Diary Development Board

•         NABARD

•         Food Corporation of India