Agriculture
Career options in Agri Sc. & Tech Food Processing:
Food processing industry is of great significance for India's development
because of its vital linkages between the two inter-related pillars of our
economy i.e. industry and agriculture.
Going by a study conducted by McKinsey and Confederation of Indian Industry
(CII), the turnover of the total Indian food market is about Rs.250, 000 crore.
Fast growth in the food processing sector and improvement in the value
chain system are quite vital to achieve favorable terms of trade for Indian agriculture.
The sector calls for immediate attention as the post-harvest losses of many
Fruits and Vegetable is about 25 to 30 per cent in our country which could be
prevented through effective food-processing techniques.
The major thrust areas in this context include: Canning, Dairy and Food
Processing, Specialty Processing, Packaging, Frozen Food/Refrigeration and
Thermo Processing, Fruits & Vegetables, Fisheries, Milk & Milk Products,
Meat & Poultry, Alcoholic Beverages & Soft Drinks and Grains and Health food.
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Horticulture:
It is the field that involves cultivation of plants, vegetables, flowers, fruits,
herbs, shrubs, bushes, ornamental trees and landscaping for gardens, maintaining
nurseries, green houses, gardens, orchards and plantations but also includes
floriculture or cultivation of flowers.
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Aquaculture:
With approximately three-quarters of the Earth's surface covered with water,
aqua science has materialized as an important subject area. This profession
deals with specialization in water and underwater environments. Broadly speaking
aqua science is the multi-disciplinary study of Earth's interrelated processes
(atmosphere, oceans, and land surface) and their relationship to different changes
in the Earth system.
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Dairy Farming:
For over many decades, dairy Farming has been an active source of employment
to millions of Indians. Of late, this sector has shown significant development
and now has helped India become the second biggest producer of milk and value-added
milk products in the world. In India, the dairy sector has been mainly developed
through co-operatives in many parts of the Indian states.
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Plant Pathology:
Plant Pathology is a branch of agricultural science that deals with the
study of fungi, bacteria, viruses, nematodes, and other microbes that cause
diseases of plants. The branch focuses on understanding how hosts, pathogens,
and environments interact to cause plant diseases and on understanding how to
control plant diseases. A plant pathologist is a person who specializes in plant
health much similar to a physician who specializes in human health or a veterinarian
in animal health.
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Agricultural engineering:
Agricultural engineering uses scientific principles and technology to solve
problems relating to sustainable agricultural production. Agricultural Engineers
perform tasks such as planning, supervising and managing the building of dairy
effluent schemes, irrigation, drainage, flood and water control systems, perform
environmental impact assessments and interpret research results and implement relevant
practices.
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Environmental Engineering:
Environmental Engineering is a budding branch of study in engineering that
makes use of the tools and techniques of science and engineering disciplines
to improve the environment (air, water, and/or land resources) from pollution
and to provide healthy water, air, and land for human habitation and for other
organisms.
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Poultry farming:
Poultry farming is the commercial raising of chickens, turkeys, ducks,
and geese for their meat and eggs. In India, poultry farming has emerged as
a highly structured and market-oriented business. These days, names of famous
poultry firms like Venkateshwara hatcheries and Al-Kabeer etc are doing the
rounds of elite food markets both nationally and globally.
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Dairy Technology & Management:
The dairy management is a diversified field consisting of many tasks,
tools and principles from the discipline of management sciences. It
draws help from these disciplines to better mange the whole process of
Dairy Farming. India is the second largest milk producer in the world
and the white revolution has established Dairy industry as an important
pillar of the Indian economy.
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Sericulture:
Sericulture is the craft and technology of breading silk worms for the
production of raw silk yarn. It includes all activities related to their
breeding such as mulberry cultivation and post-cocoon technology. This art
requires technical expertise to breed silkworms.
Indian sericulture contributes four types of silk Mulberry, Tassar, Eri &
Muga to the World of silk fabrics.
India has to do a lot with regard to stiff competition faced by it by different
global competitors.
Apiculture:
It is the management and study of honeybees. Honey bees are natural
source of a precious product ? honey, as a nutritious tem for human
consumption since ancient times and used in a large number of Ayurvedic
medicines as a drug vehicle.
Because of its natural occurrence, quality, fragrance and known mode of
action in the human body, honey is added during formulation of different products.
Of late, due to rapid strides in technology in all the spheres of bee?breeding,
significant increase in the honey?production has been seen at the national level.