Agriculturist Overview

Does the term agriculture flood your mind with black and white frames from Mother India? Or that famous Manoj Kumar song "Mere desh ki dharti?" Then, welcome to the world of Agriculture. Agriculture is not all about ploughing, sowing and reaping. On the contrary, it’s a very tech-savvy profession, which involves a lot of research. Ready to reap a lot of money? Here’s more… 

 

‘Jai Jawaan! Jai Kisaan!’ goes the slogan coined by the founding fathers of India. Half a century later, agriculture still remains our mainstay. New advances in Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering have thrown up many opportunities in this field. And with government support came tax benefits and even more money.

 

The field of agriculture includes farm management, businesses and industries that manufacture agricultural machinery, industries that buy and process the farm products, banking activities for financing and developing farms, research for improving quantity and quality of farm products, so on and so forth.

 

As an Agricultural Scientist you will work in the following areas:

• Research in fertilisers and seeds to increase the yield and quality of crops 

• Research plant genetics and breeding 

• Research agricultural economics 

• Study and implement findings in plant pathology 

• Soil science and erosion 

• Soil conservation 

• Water management 

• Agricultural meteorology 

• Ecology 

• Fisheries

 

As an agriculturist, you can specialise in a variety of areas, including the study of such relationships as organisms and their environments, soil and water, structures and the environment, genetics and plant breeding, seeds and quality of crops, or plant diseases and micro-organism. To succeed in this field you need innovation and precision.

 

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