Top 10 Upcoming, Profitable & Promising Careers in Agriculture
Agriculture is considered as an important sector of Indian Economy as it accounts for 18 per cent of the nation’s GDP. Hence, India is well known as an agriculture-based country. Agriculture being a primary source of livelihood of 58 per cent of the population, the gross value of a combination of agriculture, fishing and forestry is around US$ 271 billion for the last year 2018. Interestingly, with a share of 32 per cent of the country’s total food market, the Indian food processing industry ranks fifth in production, consumption, export and expected growth, according to the report of India Brand Equity Foundation. Its contribution of 8.80 and 8.39 per cent of gross value added in manufacturing and agriculture has made it one of the promising sectors for employment.
Agri-Business Management: This field includes the management study of all the agriculture business aspects. It handles manufacturing and distribution of farm equipment and supplies, processing, storage and promotion of food and fibre related to agricultural products, etc. Agricultural Biotechnology: It includes the study of understanding and application of scientific techniques like genetic engineering, molecular diagnostics, vaccines and tissue culture to modify plants, micro-organisms and animals. Agricultural Economics: It is the application of economics principles (tools of micro and macroeconomics) to resolve problems in agriculture. It includes, professionals monitor trade (import and export) patterns, predict market trends, consumer preferences and analysing production methods for agricultural products. Agricultural Engineering: It focuses on designing, developing and improvements of farming equipment, machines and the processes to increase the farming efficiency. It also concentrates on farm equipment, soil conservation, rural structures, rural electricity and drainage and irrigation. Agronomy: It is a branch of agricultural science that deals with the study of crops and soil where they grow. Agronomists help in developing methods and improve the usage of soil. Agronomists do research in many areas like preparation of seedbeds, soil fertility and time for sowing, conservation methods and management of soil moisture. Horticulture: It deals in growing and cultivating vegetables, fruits, herbs, decorative flowers and ornamental trees. These individuals work on improving the quality, nutritional value, growth and yield of the farm produce. They also maintain nurseries, orchards, greenhouses, plantations, etc. There is high demand for organic food due to which this sector is growing. Dairy technology: It concentrates mainly to the production and processing of milk. The experts of this stream work on managing the milk production along with collection, storage and supervise the process to ensure milk is fit for consumption. Adding to it, packaging, storage and distribution of milk as well as its by-products are other important areas of the sector. Poultry farming: Raising and fostering domestic birds like ducks and chickens to procure their meat and eggs is termed as poultry farming. Professionals in this sector manage diverse activities like feed supply, shed management, nutritional standards of production, transportation etc.
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A greenhouse is a transparent structure which is made using glass where plants are grown under certain climatic conditions. The agricultural industry has got many innovations, and the greenhouse technology makes use of modern and smart technology to give optimum facilities to the plants for their better and more efficient growth all around the year. Polyhouse is a kind of greenhouse where polyethene plastic material is used to create the polyhouse instead of the use of glass.
A greenhouse is designed to grow plants even in adverse climatic conditions. The translucent glass that covers the greenhouse gives the plants enough light to let them carry the photosynthesis process easily by absorbing light energy. Since the greenhouse is in an airtight condition, a sufficient amount of sunlight makes the greenhouse warmer from within than the outer atmosphere.
Greenhouse not only warms the greenhouse from within only in summers but in winters; it allows for an artificial heating solution which is effective but is a bit expensive. Some other inexpensive ways of warming up your greenhouse are:
- If you cover the inside of a greenhouse structure with a bubble layer wrap, you will observe a reduction in heat loss.
- Good power supply availability will allow you to add electric fan heaters to circulate hot air within the greenhouse for the plant's growth.
- You can also get electric greenhouse heaters installed that come with an inbuilt thermostat and works automatically when the temperature of the outer surroundings goes down.
Greenhouse benefits you in several different ways, which are listed below:
- Helps in producing fresh crops at any time of the year.
- The facility of producing the crops all around the year, even in adverse climatic conditions.
- The greenhouse allows the farmers to create an exclusive environment for the better plant growth.
- Protects crops from adverse climatic conditions.
- The light energy within a greenhouse is distributed evenly to all the plants.
- Greenhouse installation makes it easy for the farmers to grow crops with less use of pesticides.
- Greenhouse setup helps in saving the total usage of resources.