Rural youth are being trained through Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) on various aspects of agriculture including productivity enhancement, orchard management, value addition, livestock production and management, protective cultivation, farm machinery and fishery.. State Agricultural Universities are providing vocational training in bee keeping, mushroom cultivation, etc. with support from KVKs. Further, the ‘Agri-Clinics and Agri-Business Centres’ (ACABC) scheme launched in April, 2002 inter-alia aims at promoting self-employment in agriculture sector by way of setting up of agri-ventures in agriculture and allied areas by farm graduates. The ACABC scheme has been revised in 2010 to expand its scope so as to harness the potential of rural educated unemployed youths to start agri-enterprises. So far, 25529 agriculture graduates have been trained and 9279 agri-ventures are established in the country during the period of implementation of the scheme (since inception till July, 2011).
This information was given by Shri Harish Rawat, Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing Industries in written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today. (PIB)
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